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Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) are distinguished from Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) for their complex neuronal dynamics and sparse binary activations (spikes) inspired by the biological neural system. Traditional neuron models use…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Peng Xue , Wei Fang , Zhengyu Ma , Zihan Huang , Zhaokun Zhou , Yonghong Tian , Timothée Masquelier , Huihui Zhou

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) provide an energy-efficient deep learning option due to their unique spike-based event-driven (i.e., spike-driven) paradigm. In this paper, we incorporate the spike-driven paradigm into Transformer by the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Man Yao , Jiakui Hu , Zhaokun Zhou , Li Yuan , Yonghong Tian , Bo Xu , Guoqi Li

Recently, Mamba-based methods have demonstrated impressive performance in point cloud representation learning by leveraging State Space Model (SSM) with the efficient context modeling ability and linear complexity. However, these methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Chuxin Wang , Yixin Zha , Wenfei Yang , Tianzhu Zhang

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) are highly energy-efficient due to event-driven, sparse computation, but their training is challenged by spike non-differentiability and trade-offs among performance, efficiency, and biological plausibility.…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Zihan Huang , Zijie Xu , Yihan Huang , Shanshan Jia , Tong Bu , Yiting Dong , Wenxuan Liu , Jianhao Ding , Zhaofei Yu , Tiejun Huang

Diffusion language models (DLMs) have emerged as a promising alternative to autoregressive (AR) generation, yet their reliance on Transformer backbones limits inference efficiency due to quadratic attention or KV-cache overhead. We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Vaibhav Singh , Oleksiy Ostapenko , Pierre-André Noël , Eugene Belilovsky , Torsten Scholak

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) are brain-inspired mathematical models with the ability to process information in the form of spikes. SNNs are expected to provide not only new machine-learning algorithms, but also energy-efficient…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-01-16 Yusuke Sakemi , Kai Morino , Takashi Morie , Kazuyuki Aihara

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) hold promise for energy-efficient, biologically inspired computing. We identify substantial informatio loss during spike transmission, linked to temporal dependencies in traditional Leaky Integrate-and-Fire…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Guobin Shen , Jindong Li , Tenglong Li , Dongcheng Zhao , Yi Zeng

Event-based cameras have recently shown great potential for high-speed motion estimation owing to their ability to capture temporally rich information asynchronously. Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs), with their neuro-inspired event-driven…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-15 Adarsh Kumar Kosta , Kaushik Roy

Recently, Multilayer Perceptron (MLP) becomes the hotspot in the field of computer vision tasks. Without inductive bias, MLPs perform well on feature extraction and achieve amazing results. However, due to the simplicity of their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Wenshuo Li , Hanting Chen , Jianyuan Guo , Ziyang Zhang , Yunhe Wang

Long-range sequence processing poses a significant challenge for Transformers due to their quadratic complexity in input length. A promising alternative is Mamba, which demonstrates high performance and achieves Transformer-level…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-11 Assaf Ben-Kish , Itamar Zimerman , Shady Abu-Hussein , Nadav Cohen , Amir Globerson , Lior Wolf , Raja Giryes

Deploying adaptive intelligence at the edge remains challenging due to the high computational and energy cost of training neural models. Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) offer a promising alternative, but enabling on-device learning requires…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Alessio Caviglia , Filippo Marostica , Alessandro Savino , Stefano Di Carlo

Semantic segmentation of high-resolution remote sensing images is vital in downstream applications such as land-cover mapping, urban planning and disaster assessment.Existing Transformer-based methods suffer from the constraint between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-27 Enze Zhu , Zhan Chen , Dingkai Wang , Hanru Shi , Xiaoxuan Liu , Lei Wang

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) are well suited for resource-constrained applications as they do not need expensive multipliers. In a typical rate-encoded SNN, a series of binary spikes within a globally fixed time window is used to fire the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-11-16 Zhanglu Yan , Jun Zhou , Weng-Fai Wong

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) capture some of the efficiency of biological brains for inference and learning via the dynamic, online, event-driven processing of binary time series. Most existing learning algorithms for SNNs are based on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-06 Hyeryung Jang , Osvaldo Simeone

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) have recently attracted widespread research interest as an efficient alternative to traditional Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) because of their capability to process sparse and binary spike information and…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Yuhang Li , Abhishek Moitra , Tamar Geller , Priyadarshini Panda

Semantic segmentation is a vital task in the field of remote sensing (RS). However, conventional convolutional neural network (CNN) and transformer-based models face limitations in capturing long-range dependencies or are often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-11 Yin Hu , Xianping Ma , Jialu Sui , Man-On Pun

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) are well known as the brain-inspired models with high computing efficiency, due to a key component that they utilize spikes as information units, close to the biological neural systems. Although spiking based…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Qi Xu , Yaxin Li , Jiangrong Shen , Jian K Liu , Huajin Tang , Gang Pan

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) have gained popularity due to their high energy efficiency. Prior works have proposed various methods for training SNNs, including backpropagation-based methods. Training SNNs is computationally expensive…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-18 Sai Sanjeet , Bibhu Datta Sahoo , Keshab K. Parhi

This paper investigates the classification capability of small-scale spiking neural networks based on the Leaky Integrate-and-Fire (LIF) neuron model. We analyze the relationship between classification accuracy and three factors: the number…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2026-01-22 Zhengdi Zhang , Cong Han , Wenjun Xia

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) provide an energy-efficient paradigm for visual recognition. We present SpikingMoE, which integrates a spike-driven Transformer with a Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) framework for dynamic computation. Inspired by…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Yukai Yang , Chenxi Qin , Jungang Li , Xin Zhang , Wenwei Shao , Liqun Chen