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The spiking neural network (SNN) using leaky-integrated-and-fire (LIF) neurons has been commonly used in automatic speech recognition (ASR) tasks. However, the LIF neuron is still relatively simple compared to that in the biological brain.…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-02-03 Minglun Han , Qingyu Wang , Tielin Zhang , Yi Wang , Duzhen Zhang , Bo Xu

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) provide an energy-efficient solution by utilizing the spike-based and sparse nature of biological systems. Since the advent of Transformers, SNNs have struggled to compete with artificial networks on long…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-10-24 Yan Zhong , Ruoyu Zhao , Chao Wang , Qinghai Guo , Jianguo Zhang , Zhichao Lu , Luziwei Leng

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) are a promising paradigm for energy-efficient computation, yet their theoretical foundations-especially regarding stability and robustness-remain limited compared to artificial neural networks. In this work,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Ernesto Araya , Massimiliano Datres , Gitta Kutyniok

Implementations of spiking neural networks on neuromorphic hardware promise orders of magnitude less power consumption than their non-spiking counterparts. The standard neuron model for spike-based computation on such systems has long been…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Maximilian Baronig , Romain Ferrand , Silvester Sabathiel , Robert Legenstein

The firing dynamics of biological neurons in mathematical models is often determined by the model's parameters, representing the neurons' underlying properties. The parameter estimation problem seeks to recover those parameters of a single…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2022-10-05 Long Le , Yao Li

Accurately assessing mental workload is crucial in cognitive neuroscience, human-computer interaction, and real-time monitoring, as cognitive load fluctuations affect performance and decision-making. While Electroencephalography (EEG) based…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Jiahui An , Sara Irina Fabrikant , Giacomo Indiveri , Elisa Donati

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) offer biologically inspired computation but remain underexplored for continuous regression tasks in scientific machine learning. In this work, we introduce and systematically evaluate Quadratic…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Ruyin Wan , George Em Karniadakis , Panos Stinis

Application of deep convolutional spiking neural networks (SNNs) to artificial intelligence (AI) tasks has recently gained a lot of interest since SNNs are hardware-friendly and energy-efficient. Unlike the non-spiking counterparts, most of…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-07-17 Milad Mozafari , Mohammad Ganjtabesh , Abbas Nowzari-Dalini , Timothée Masquelier

In this work, a spiking neural network (SNN) is proposed for approximating differential sensorimotor maps of robotic systems. The computed model is used as a local Jacobian-like projection that relates changes in sensor space to changes in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Omar Zahra , Silvia Tolu , David Navarro-Alarcon

We present a general framework for training spiking neural networks (SNNs) to perform binary classification on multivariate time series, with a focus on step-wise prediction and high precision at low false alarm rates. The approach uses the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-24 James Ghawaly , Andrew Nicholson , Catherine Schuman , Dalton Diez , Aaron Young , Brett Witherspoon

We propose that in order to harness our understanding of neuroscience toward machine learning, we must first have powerful tools for training brain-like models of learning. Although substantial progress has been made toward understanding…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-06-29 Samuel Schmidgall , Joe Hays

Spiking Neural Networks (SNN) are more closely related to brain-like computation and inspire hardware implementation. This is enabled by small networks that give high performance on standard classification problems. In literature, typical…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2016-12-08 Anmol Biswas , Sidharth Prasad , Sandip Lashkare , Udayan Ganguly

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) are biologically inspired machine learning models that build on dynamic neuronal models processing binary and sparse spiking signals in an event-driven, online, fashion. SNNs can be implemented on neuromorphic…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-12-10 Hyeryung Jang , Nicolas Skatchkovsky , Osvaldo Simeone

Emergence of deep neural networks (DNNs) has raised enormous attention towards artificial neural networks (ANNs) once again. They have become the state-of-the-art models and have won different machine learning challenges. Although these…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-12-09 Shahriar Rezghi Shirsavar , Abdol-Hossein Vahabie , Mohammad-Reza A. Dehaqani

The brain is known to be a highly complex, asynchronous dynamical system that is highly tailored to encode temporal information. However, recent deep learning approaches to not take advantage of this temporal coding. Spiking Neural Networks…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-09-02 Matthew Evanusa , Cornelia Fermuller , Yiannis Aloimonos

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) are promising for energy-efficient, real-time edge computing, yet their performance is often constrained by the limited adaptability of conventional leaky integrate-and-fire (LIF) neurons. Existing LIF models…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Zhuobin Yang , Yeyao Bao , Liangfu Lv , Jian Zhang , Xiaohong Li , Yunliang Zang

The problem of training spiking neural networks (SNNs) is a necessary precondition to understanding computations within the brain, a field still in its infancy. Previous work has shown that supervised learning in multi-layer SNNs enables…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-03-12 Amirhossein Tavanaei , Anthony S. Maida

Humans perform remarkably well in many cognitive tasks including pattern recognition. However, the neuronal mechanisms underlying this process are not well understood. Nevertheless, artificial neural networks, inspired in brain circuits,…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2018-06-28 Gianluca Susi , Luis Anton Toro , Leonides Canuet , Maria Eugenia Lopez , Fernando Maestu , Claudio R. Mirasso , Ernesto Pereda

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) are promising brain-inspired energy-efficient models. Compared to conventional deep Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs), SNNs exhibit superior efficiency and capability to process temporal information. However,…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-02-20 Yulong Huang , Xiaopeng Lin , Hongwei Ren , Haotian Fu , Yue Zhou , Zunchang Liu , Biao Pan , Bojun Cheng

In recent years, there has been increasing interest in developing models and tools to address the complex patterns of connectivity found in brain tissue. Specifically, this is due to a need to understand how emergent properties emerge from…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2022-04-15 Sean Knight , Navjot Gadda