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Multi-bit spiking neural networks (SNNs) have recently become a heated research spot, pursuing energy-efficient and high-accurate AI. However, with more bits involved, the associated memory and computation demands escalate to the point…

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Benefiting from the event-driven and sparse spiking characteristics of the brain, spiking neural networks (SNNs) are becoming an energy-efficient alternative to artificial neural networks (ANNs). However, the performance gap between SNNs…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-29 Man Yao , Guangshe Zhao , Hengyu Zhang , Yifan Hu , Lei Deng , Yonghong Tian , Bo Xu , Guoqi Li

Multimodal spiking neural networks (SNNs) hold significant potential for energy-efficient sensory processing but face critical challenges in modality imbalance and temporal misalignment. Current approaches suffer from uncoordinated…

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Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF)-based models have achieved remarkable success in 3D reconstruction and rendering tasks. However, during both training and inference, these models rely heavily on dense point sampling along rays from multiple…

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Although the temporal spike dynamics of spiking neural networks (SNNs) enable low-power temporal pattern capture capabilities, they also incur inherent inconsistencies that severely compromise representation. In this paper, we perform dual…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Yongqi Ding , Kunshan Yang , Linze Li , Yiyang Zhang , Mengmeng Jing , Lin Zuo

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) represent the latest generation of neural computation, offering a brain-inspired alternative to conventional Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs). Unlike ANNs, which depend on continuous-valued signals, SNNs…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Sales G. Aribe

Integrating Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) with Transformer architectures offers a promising pathway to balance energy efficiency and performance, particularly for edge vision applications. However, existing Spiking Transformers face two…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Dehao Zhang , Fukai Guo , Shuai Wang , Jingya Wang , Jieyuan Zhang , Yimeng Shan , Malu Zhang , Yang Yang , Haizhou Li

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) emulate the integrated-fire-leak mechanism found in biological neurons, offering a compelling combination of biological realism and energy efficiency. In recent years, they have gained considerable research…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-06-06 Lihao Wang , Zhaofei Yu

Neuromorphic vision sensors (event cameras) simulate biological visual perception systems and have the advantages of high temporal resolution, less data redundancy, low power consumption, and large dynamic range. Since both events and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-15 Haibo Shen , Juyu Xiao , Yihao Luo , Xiang Cao , Liangqi Zhang , Tianjiang Wang

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) are promising bio-inspired third-generation neural networks. Recent research has trained deep SNN models with accuracy on par with Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs). Although the event-driven and sparse nature…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Sherif Eissa , Sander Stuijk , Floran De Putter , Andrea Nardi-Dei , Federico Corradi , Henk Corporaal

Spiking neural networks (SNNs), that operate via binary spikes distributed over time, have emerged as a promising energy efficient ML paradigm for resource-constrained devices. However, the current state-of-the-art (SOTA) SNNs require…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-23 Gourav Datta , Peter A. Beerel

The combination of Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) with Vision Transformer architectures has garnered significant attention due to their potential for energy-efficient and high-performance computing paradigms. However, a substantial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Wei Hua , Chenlin Zhou , Jibin Wu , Yansong Chua , Yangyang Shu

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) are a promising framework for event-driven temporal processing. Prior work has improved temporal modeling through richer neuron dynamics and network-level mechanisms such as recurrence and delays, but it…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Jongmin Choi , Joon Son Chung

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) show great potential due to their energy efficiency, fast processing capabilities, and robustness. There are two main approaches to constructing SNNs. Direct training methods require much memory, while…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-03 Zihan Huang , Xinyu Shi , Zecheng Hao , Tong Bu , Jianhao Ding , Zhaofei Yu , Tiejun Huang

Skeleton-based action recognition is crucial for multimedia applications but heavily relies on power-hungry Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs), limiting their deployment on resource-constrained edge devices. Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Naichuan Zheng , Hailun Xia , Zepeng Sun , Weiyi Li , Yujia Wang

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) have shown advantages in computation and energy efficiency over traditional artificial neural networks (ANNs) thanks to their event-driven representations. SNNs also replace weight multiplications in ANNs with…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Yangfan Hu , Qian Zheng , Xudong Jiang , Gang Pan

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) promise high energy efficiency, particularly with time-to-first-spike (TTFS) encoding, which maximizes sparsity by emitting at most one spike per neuron. However, such energy advantage is often unrealized…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Zhanglu Yan , Jiayi Mao , Qianhui Liu , Fanfan Li , Gang Pan , Tao Luo , Bowen Zhu , Weng-Fai Wong

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) offer an attractive and energy-efficient alternative to conventional Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) due to their sparse binary activation. When SNN meets Transformer, it shows great potential in 2D image…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-27 Peixi Wu , Bosong Chai , Hebei Li , Menghua Zheng , Yansong Peng , Zeyu Wang , Xuan Nie , Yueyi Zhang , Xiaoyan Sun

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) are the third generation of neural networks and can explore both rate and temporal coding for energy-efficient event-driven computation. However, the decision accuracy of existing SNN designs is contingent…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-02-25 Changqing Xu , Wenrui Zhang , Yu Liu , Peng Li

Foundational models based on the transformer architecture are currently the state-of-the-art in general language modeling, as well as in scientific areas such as material science and climate. However, training and deploying these models is…

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