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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

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) are promising biologically plausible models of computation which utilize a spiking binary activation function similar to that of biological neurons. SNNs are well positioned to process spatiotemporal data, and…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Boxun Xu , Richard Boone , Peng Li

Restoring naturalistic finger control in assistive technologies requires the continuous decoding of motor intent with high accuracy, efficiency, and robustness. Here, we present a spike-based decoding framework that integrates spiking…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Farah Baracat , Agnese Grison , Dario Farina , Giacomo Indiveri , Elisa Donati

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) are a promising approach to low-power applications on neuromorphic hardware due to their energy efficiency. However, training SNNs is challenging because of the non-differentiable spike generation function. To…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Qingyan Meng , Mingqing Xiao , Zhengyu Ma , Huihui Zhou , Yonghong Tian , Zhouchen Lin

The spiking neural network (SNN) computes and communicates information through discrete binary events. It is considered more biologically plausible and more energy-efficient than artificial neural networks (ANN) in emerging neuromorphic…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-05-28 Yang Li , Yi Zeng , Dongcheng Zhao

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) offer an energy-efficient alternative to traditional neural networks due to their event-driven computing paradigm. However, recent advancements in spiking transformers have focused on improving accuracy with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Wenjie Wei , Xiaolong Zhou , Malu Zhang , Ammar Belatreche , Qian Sun , Yimeng Shan , Dehao Zhang , Zijian Zhou , Zeyu Ma , Yang Yang , Haizhou Li

Neural networks have become the key technology of artificial intelligence and have contributed to breakthroughs in several machine learning tasks, primarily owing to advances in deep learning applied to Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs).…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-03-18 Stanisław Woźniak , Angeliki Pantazi , Thomas Bohnstingl , Evangelos Eleftheriou

Bio-inspired spiking neural networks (SNNs), operating with asynchronous binary signals (or spikes) distributed over time, can potentially lead to greater computational efficiency on event-driven hardware. The state-of-the-art SNNs suffer…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-12-03 Nitin Rathi , Kaushik Roy

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) are biologically realistic and practically promising in low-power computation because of their event-driven mechanism. Usually, the training of SNNs suffers accuracy loss on various tasks, yielding an inferior…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-04-19 Di Hong , Jiangrong Shen , Yu Qi , Yueming Wang

Machine learning with artificial neural networks (ANNs), provides solutions for the growing complexity of modern communication systems. This complexity, however, increases power consumption, making the systems energy-intensive. Spiking…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-26 Eike-Manuel Edelmann

Spiking Neural Network (SNN) is a promising energy-efficient AI model when implemented on neuromorphic hardware. However, it is a challenge to efficiently train SNNs due to their non-differentiability. Most existing methods either suffer…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-03-31 Qingyan Meng , Mingqing Xiao , Shen Yan , Yisen Wang , Zhouchen Lin , Zhi-Quan Luo

We present a neuromorphic split-computing framework for energy-efficient low-latency inference over optical inter-satellite links. The system partitions a spiking neural network (SNN) between edge and core nodes. To transmit sparse spiking…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-21 Zihang Song , Petar Popovski

Brain-inspired spiking neural networks (SNNs) promise to be a low-power alternative to computationally intensive artificial neural networks (ANNs), although performance gaps persist. Recent studies have improved the performance of SNNs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Yongqi Ding , Lin Zuo , Mengmeng Jing , Kunshan Yang , Pei He , Tonglan Xie

Larger Spiking Neural Network (SNN) models are typically favorable as they can offer higher accuracy. However, employing such models on the resource- and energy-constrained embedded platforms is inefficient. Towards this, we present a…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-06-20 Rachmad Vidya Wicaksana Putra , Muhammad Shafique

Spiking neural network (SNN) is a brain-inspired model which has more spatio-temporal information processing capacity and computational energy efficiency. However, with the increasing depth of SNNs, the memory problem caused by the weights…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-08-02 Changqing Xu , Yijian Pei , Zili Wu , Yi Liu , Yintang Yang

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) transmit information through discrete spikes, which performs well in processing spatial-temporal information. Due to the non-differentiable characteristic, there still exist difficulties in designing…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-05-28 Dongcheng Zhao , Yi Zeng , Yang Li

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs), with their inherent recurrence, offer an efficient method for processing the asynchronous temporal data generated by Dynamic Vision Sensors (DVS), making them well-suited for event-based vision applications.…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-11-06 Deepika Sharma , Shubham Negi , Trishit Dutta , Amogh Agrawal , Kaushik Roy

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs), as one of the algorithmic models in neuromorphic computing, have gained a great deal of research attention owing to temporal information processing capability, low power consumption, and high biological…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Chengting Yu , Zheming Gu , Da Li , Gaoang Wang , Aili Wang , Erping Li

While deep spiking neural networks (SNNs) demonstrate superior performance, their deployment on resource-constrained neuromorphic hardware still remains challenging. Network pruning offers a viable solution by reducing both parameters and…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Hui Xie , Yuhe Liu , Shaoqi Yang , Jinyang Guo , Yufei Guo , Yuqing Ma , Jiaxin Chen , Jiaheng Liu , Xianglong Liu

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) have recently emerged as a prominent neural computing paradigm. However, the typical shallow SNN architectures have limited capacity for expressing complex representations while training deep SNNs using input…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-03-26 Chankyu Lee , Syed Shakib Sarwar , Priyadarshini Panda , Gopalakrishnan Srinivasan , Kaushik Roy