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In this paper, the foundations of neuromorphic computing, spiking neural networks (SNNs) and memristors, are analyzed and discussed. Neuromorphic computing is then applied to FPGA design for digital signal processing (DSP). Finite impulse…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Justin London

This paper introduces a novel framework for robotic vision-based navigation that integrates Hybrid Neural Networks (HNNs) with Spiking Neural Network (SNN)-based filtering to enhance situational awareness for unmodeled obstacle detection…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Reza Ahmadvand , Sarah Safura Sharif , Yaser Mike Banad

We describe a method to train spiking deep networks that can be run using leaky integrate-and-fire (LIF) neurons, achieving state-of-the-art results for spiking LIF networks on five datasets, including the large ImageNet ILSVRC-2012…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Eric Hunsberger , Chris Eliasmith

Spiking neural networks are neuromorphic systems that emulate certain aspects of biological neurons, offering potential advantages in energy efficiency and speed by for example leveraging sparsity. While CMOS-based electronic SNN hardware…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Ria Talukder , Anas Skalli , Xavier Porte , Simon Thorpe , Daniel Brunner

Optical machine learning offers advantages in terms of power efficiency, scalability and computation speed. Recently, an optical machine learning method based on Diffractive Deep Neural Networks (D2NNs) has been introduced to execute a…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-06-11 Deniz Mengu , Yi Luo , Yair Rivenson , Aydogan Ozcan

Active Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RIS) are a promising technology for 6G wireless networks. This paper investigates a novel hybrid deep reinforcement learning (DRL) framework for resource allocation in a multi-user uplink system…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-29 Mohamed Shalma , Engy Aly Maher , Ahmed El-Mahdy

Photonic Neural Network implementations have been gaining considerable attention as a potentially disruptive future technology. Demonstrating learning in large scale neural networks is essential to establish photonic machine learning…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-05-13 Julian Bueno , Sheler Maktoobi , Luc Froehly , Ingo Fischer , Maxime Jacquot , Laurent Larger , Daniel Brunner

We present a new back propagation based training algorithm for discrete-time spiking neural networks (SNN). Inspired by recent deep learning algorithms on binarized neural networks, binary activation with a straight-through gradient…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-09-20 Shihui Yin , Shreyas K. Venkataramanaiah , Gregory K. Chen , Ram Krishnamurthy , Yu Cao , Chaitali Chakrabarti , Jae-sun Seo

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Ranxi Lin , Canming Yao , Jiayi Li , Weihang Liu , Xin Lou , Pingqiang Zhou

Learning from interaction is the primary way that biological agents acquire knowledge about their environment and themselves. Modern deep reinforcement learning (DRL) explores a computational approach to learning from interaction and has…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Duzhen Zhang , Tielin Zhang , Shuncheng Jia , Qingyu Wang , Bo Xu

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) provide biological plausibility and energy efficiency, yet systematic investigations of memory augmentation strategies remain limited. We conduct a five-model ablation study integrating Leaky…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Effiong Blessing , Chiung-Yi Tseng , Isaac Nkrumah , Junaid Rehman

At present, implementation of learning mechanisms in spiking neural networks (SNN) cannot be considered as a solved scientific problem despite plenty of SNN learning algorithms proposed. It is also true for SNN implementation of…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Mikhail Kiselev

Excitable optoelectronic devices represent one of the key building blocks for implementation of artificial spiking neurons in neuromorphic (brain-inspired) photonic systems. This work introduces and experimentally investigates an…

Modern deep learning enabled artificial neural networks, such as Deep Neural Network (DNN) and Convolutional Neural Network (CNN), have achieved a series of breaking records on a broad spectrum of recognition applications. However, the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-03-15 Tao Liu , Zihao Liu , Fuhong Lin , Yier Jin , Gang Quan , Wujie Wen

Neural network hardware is considered an essential part of future edge devices. In this paper, we propose a binary-weight spiking neural network (BW-SNN) hardware architecture for low-power real-time object classification on edge platforms.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-16 Pai-Yu Tan , Po-Yao Chuang , Yen-Ting Lin , Cheng-Wen Wu , Juin-Ming Lu

We present an end-to-end pipeline for deploying reinforcement learning (RL) trained Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) on neuromorphic hardware by converting them into spiking Sigma-Delta Neural Networks (SDNNs). We demonstrate that an ANN…

Artificial neural networks inspired by brain operations can improve the possibilities of solving complex problems more efficiently. Today's computing hardware, on the other hand, is mainly based on von Neumann architecture and CMOS…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2020-07-08 Ali Bozbey , Mustafa Altay Karamuftuoglu , Sasan Razmkhah , Murat Ozbayoglu

This paper introduces a novel deep learning-based multimodal fusion architecture aimed at enhancing the perception capabilities of autonomous navigation robots in complex environments. By utilizing innovative feature extraction modules,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Delun Lai , Yeyubei Zhang , Yunchong Liu , Chaojie Li , Huadong Mo

Inspired by the brain's hierarchical processing and energy efficiency, this paper presents a Spiking Neural Network (SNN) architecture for lifelong Network Intrusion Detection System (NIDS). The proposed system first employs an efficient…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Md Zesun Ahmed Mia , Malyaban Bal , Sen Lu , George M. Nishibuchi , Suhas Chelian , Srini Vasan , Abhronil Sengupta

As deep learning models scale, they become increasingly competitive from domains spanning from computer vision to natural language processing; however, this happens at the expense of efficiency since they require increasingly more memory…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Fabrizio Ottati , Chang Gao , Qinyu Chen , Giovanni Brignone , Mario R. Casu , Jason K. Eshraghian , Luciano Lavagno