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Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) hold great potential to realize brain-inspired, energy-efficient computational systems. However, current SNNs still fall short in terms of multi-scale temporal processing compared to their biological…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-08-28 Xinyi Chen , Jibin Wu , Chenxiang Ma , Yinsong Yan , Yujie Wu , Kay Chen Tan

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) have recently gained popularity as machine learning models for on-device edge intelligence for applications such as mobile healthcare management and natural language processing due to their low power profile.…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-03-09 Bleema Rosenfeld , Bipin Rajendran , Osvaldo Simeone

Spiking Neural Network (SNN) is the third generation of Neural Network (NN) mimicking the natural behavior of the brain. By processing based on binary input/output, SNNs offer lower complexity, higher density and lower power consumption.…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-03-24 Khanh N. Dang , Abderazek Ben Abdallah

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) have emerged as a class of bio -inspired networks that leverage sparse, event-driven signaling to achieve low-power computation while inherently modeling temporal dynamics. Such characteristics align closely…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Hemanth Sabbella , Archit Mukherjee , Thivya Kandappu , Sounak Dey , Arpan Pal , Archan Misra , Dong Ma

Known as low energy consumption networks, spiking neural networks (SNNs) have gained a lot of attention within the past decades. While SNNs are increasing competitive with artificial neural networks (ANNs) for vision tasks, they are rarely…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-25 Shuaijie Shen , Chao Wang , Renzhuo Huang , Yan Zhong , Qinghai Guo , Zhichao Lu , Jianguo Zhang , Luziwei Leng

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) are computational models inspired by the structure and dynamics of biological neuronal networks. Their event-driven nature enables them to achieve high energy efficiency, particularly when deployed on…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Ashish Gautam , Prasanna Date , Shruti Kulkarni , Robert Patton , Thomas Potok

Spiking neural networks (SNN) are able to learn spatiotemporal features while using less energy, especially on neuromorphic hardware. The most widely used spiking neuron in deep learning is the Leaky Integrate and Fire (LIF) neuron. LIF…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Sidi Yaya Arnaud Yarga , Sean U. N. Wood

We describe a novel spiking neural network (SNN) for automated, real-time handwritten digit classification and its implementation on a GP-GPU platform. Information processing within the network, from feature extraction to classification is…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-11-13 Shruti R. Kulkarni , John M. Alexiades , Bipin Rajendran

As the demand for compute power in traditional neural networks has increased significantly, spiking neural networks (SNNs) have emerged as a potential solution to increasingly power-hungry neural networks. By operating on 0/1 spikes emitted…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Andrew Fan , Simon D. Levy

We propose a new supervised learning rule for multilayer spiking neural networks (SNNs) that use a form of temporal coding known as rank-order-coding. With this coding scheme, all neurons fire exactly one spike per stimulus, but the firing…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-06-16 Saeed Reza Kheradpisheh , Timothée Masquelier

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) are brain-inspired models that enable energy-efficient implementation on neuromorphic hardware. However, the supervised training of SNNs remains a hard problem due to the discontinuity of the spiking neuron…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-12-20 Mingqing Xiao , Qingyan Meng , Zongpeng Zhang , Yisen Wang , Zhouchen Lin

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

We present the design and numerical simulation of a spiking neuron capable of on-chip machine learning. Built within the CMOS+X framework, the spiking neuron consists of an NMOS transistor combined with a magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ).…

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) have attracted the attention of the deep learning community for use in low-latency, low-power neuromorphic hardware, as well as models for understanding neuroscience. In this paper, we introduce Spiking Phasor…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-04-04 Connor Bybee , E. Paxon Frady , Friedrich T. Sommer

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 Network (SNN), as a brain-inspired and energy-efficient network, is currently facing the pivotal challenge of exploring a suitable and efficient learning framework. The predominant training methodologies, namely…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Zecheng Hao , Qichao Ma , Kang Chen , Yi Zhang , Zhaofei Yu , Tiejun Huang

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) present a promising computing paradigm for neuromorphic processing of event-based sensor data. The resonate-and-fire (RF) neuron, in particular, appeals through its biological plausibility, complex dynamics,…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Thomas E. Huber , Jules Lecomte , Borislav Polovnikov , Axel von Arnim

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) are a promising paradigm for efficient event-driven processing of spatio-temporally sparse data streams. SNNs have inspired the design and can take advantage of the emerging class of neuromorphic processors…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2021-01-13 Bodo Rueckauer , Connor Bybee , Ralf Goettsche , Yashwardhan Singh , Joyesh Mishra , Andreas Wild

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are the current state-of-the-art models in many speech related tasks. There is a growing interest, though, for more biologically realistic, hardware friendly and energy efficient models, named Spiking Neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-16 Thomas Pellegrini , Romain Zimmer , Timothée Masquelier

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) enable power-efficient implementations due to their sparse, spike-based coding scheme. This paper develops a bio-inspired SNN that uses unsupervised learning to extract discriminative features from speech…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-11-23 Amirhossein Tavanaei , Anthony Maida