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Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) are gaining attention for their energy efficiency and biological plausibility, utilizing 0-1 activation sparsity through spike-driven computation. While existing SNN accelerators exploit this sparsity to skip…

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Research into optical spiking neural networks (SNNs) has primarily focused on spiking devices, networks of excitable lasers or numerical modelling of large architectures, often overlooking key constraints such as limited optical power,…

Bio-inspired Spiking Neural Networks (SNN) are now demonstrating comparable accuracy to intricate convolutional neural networks (CNN), all while delivering remarkable energy and latency efficiency when deployed on neuromorphic hardware. In…

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Binary spike coding enables sparse and event-driven computation in spiking neural networks (SNNs), yet its 1-bit-per-timestep representation fundamentally limits information throughput. This bottleneck becomes increasingly restrictive in…

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A long-standing proposition is that by emulating the operation of the brain's neocortex, a spiking neural network (SNN) can achieve similar desirable features: flexible learning, speed, and efficiency. Temporal neural networks (TNNs) are…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-02-24 James E. Smith

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) offer inherent energy efficiency due to their event-driven computation model, making them promising for edge AI deployment. However, their practical adoption is limited by the computational overhead of deep…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Parth Patne , Mahdi Taheri , Ali Mahani , Maksim Jenihhin , Reza Mahani , Christian Herglotz

Stream processing acceleration is driven by the continuously increasing volume and velocity of data generated on the Web and the limitations of storage, computation, and power consumption. Hardware solutions provide better performance and…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-08-29 Mohammadreza Najafi , Thamir M. Qadah , Mohammad Sadoghi , Hans-Arno Jacobsen

Spiking neural networks (SNN) are delivering energy-efficient, massively parallel, and low-latency solutions to AI problems, facilitated by the emerging neuromorphic chips. To harness these computational benefits, SNN need to be trained by…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-10-28 Guangzhi Tang , Neelesh Kumar , Ioannis Polykretis , Konstantinos P. Michmizos

Low-level sensory data processing in many Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices pursue energy efficiency by utilizing sleep modes or slowing the clocking to the minimum. To curb the share of stand-by power dissipation in those designs,…

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Recent advances in general-purpose AI systems with attention-based transformers offer a potential window into how the neocortex and cerebellum, despite their relatively uniform circuit architectures, give rise to diverse functions and,…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-12-03 Shogo Ohmae , Keiko Ohmae

The next wave of on-device AI will likely require energy-efficient deep neural networks. Brain-inspired spiking neural networks (SNN) has been identified to be a promising candidate. Doing away with the need for multipliers significantly…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2019-12-02 Bo Wang , Jun Zhou , Weng-Fai Wong , Li-Shiuan Peh

Graph neural networks have emerged as a specialized branch of deep learning, designed to address problems where pairwise relations between objects are crucial. Recent advancements utilize graph convolutional neural networks to extract…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2024-04-29 Shay Snyder , Victoria Clerico , Guojing Cong , Shruti Kulkarni , Catherine Schuman , Sumedh R. Risbud , Maryam Parsa

Spiking Neural Networks are attracting increased attention as a more energy-efficient alternative to traditional Artificial Neural Networks for edge computing. Neuromorphic computing can significantly reduce energy requirements. Here, we…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Balázs Mészáros , James C. Knight , Jonathan Timcheck , Thomas Nowotny

The growing complexity and scale of scientific workflows in high performance computing (HPC) environments have led to significant challenges in managing energy consumption without compromising computational performance. Traditional…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Ali Zahir , Ashiq Anjum , Mark Wilkinson , Jeyan Thiyagalingam

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) promise orders-of-magnitude efficiency gains by communicating with sparse, event-driven spikes rather than dense numerical activations. However, most training pipelines either rely on surrogate-gradient…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Arman Ferdowsi , Atakan Aral

Neurosymbolic AI is an emerging compositional paradigm that fuses neural learning with symbolic reasoning to enhance the transparency, interpretability, and trustworthiness of AI. It also exhibits higher data efficiency making it promising…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Zishen Wan , Hanchen Yang , Ritik Raj , Che-Kai Liu , Ananda Samajdar , Arijit Raychowdhury , Tushar Krishna

The Internet of Things is transforming various fields, with sensors increasingly embedded in wearables, smart buildings, and connected equipment. While deep learning enables valuable insights from IoT data, conventional models are too…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Alaa Zniber , Mounir Ghogho , Ouassim Karrakchou , Mehdi Zakroum

SpiNNaker is an ARM-based processor platform optimized for the simulation of spiking neural networks. This brief describes the roadmap in going from the current SPINNaker1 system, a 1 Million core machine in 130nm CMOS, to SpiNNaker2, a 10…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2019-11-07 Christian Mayr , Sebastian Hoeppner , Steve Furber

For energy-efficient computation in specialized neuromorphic hardware, we present spiking neural coding, an instantiation of a family of artificial neural models grounded in the theory of predictive coding. This model, the first of its…

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