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Spiking neural networks (SNNs) are largely inspired by biology and neuroscience and leverage ideas and theories to create fast and efficient learning systems. Spiking neuron models are adopted as core processing units in neuromorphic…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-02-16 Davide Liberato Manna , Alex Vicente Sola , Paul Kirkland , Trevor Bihl , Gaetano Di Caterina

We compute the firing rate of a leaky integrate-and-fire (LIF) neuron with stochastic conductance-based inputs in the limit when synaptic decay times are much shorter than the membrane time constant. A comparison of our analytical results…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2020-02-27 Timothy D. Oleskiw , Wyeth Bair , Eric Shea-Brown , Nicolas Brunel

We extensively explore networks of weakly unbalanced, leaky integrate-and-fire (LIF) neurons for different coupling strength, connectivity, and by varying the degree of refractoriness, as well as the delay in the spike transmission. We find…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2018-12-14 Antonio Politi , Ekkehard Ullner , Alessandro Torcini

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) offer a promising energy-efficient alternative to Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) by utilizing sparse and asynchronous processing through discrete spike-based computation. However, the performance of deep…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Eric Jahns , Davi Moreno , Michel A. Kinsy

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

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

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) have attracted much attention due to their ability to process temporal information, low power consumption, and higher biological plausibility. However, it is still challenging to develop efficient and…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Chunming Jiang , Yilei Zhang

In spiking neural networks (SNN), at each node, an incoming sequence of weighted Dirac pulses is converted into an output sequence of weighted Dirac pulses by a leaky-integrate-and-fire (LIF) neuron model based on spike aggregation and…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-02-09 Bernhard A. Moser , Michael Lunglmayr

In this paper, we provide a complete mathematical construction for a stochastic leaky-integrate-and-fire model (LIF) mimicking the interspike interval (ISI) statistics of a stochastic FitzHugh-Nagumo neuron model (FHN) in the excitable…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2019-09-06 Marius E. Yamakou , Tat Dat Tran , Luu Hoang Duc , Juergen Jost

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) are considered to have enormous potential in the future development of Artificial Intelligence due to their brain-inspired and energy-efficient properties. Compared to vanilla Spatial-Temporal Back-propagation…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Zecheng Hao , Yifan Huang , Zijie Xu , Wenxuan Liu , Yuanhong Tang , Zhaofei Yu , Tiejun Huang

Neural processing systems typically represent data using leaky integrate and fire (LIF) neuron models that generate spikes or pulse trains at a rate proportional to their input amplitudes. This mechanism requires high firing rates when…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2019-05-07 Manu V Nair , Giacomo Indiveri

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

The Network of Noisy Leaky Integrate and Fire (NNLIF) model describes the behavior of a neural network at mesoscopic level. It is one of the simplest self-contained mean-field models considered for that purpose. Even so, to study the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-06-15 María J. Cáceres , Ricarda Schneider

This work reports a transfer function-based approach to characterizing the operation of single neuronal cells in terms of the instantaneous frequency of the input and output signals. We adopt the leaky integrate-and-fire model. The transfer…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2019-10-23 Felipe L. Gewers , Luciano da F. Costa

Motor imagery, an important category in electroencephalogram (EEG) research, often intersects with scenarios demanding low energy consumption, such as portable medical devices and isolated environment operations. Traditional deep learning…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Chuhan Zhang , Wei Pan , Cosimo Della Santina

As the third generation of neural networks, spiking neural networks (SNNs) have recently gained widespread attention for their biological plausibility, energy efficiency, and effectiveness in processing neuromorphic datasets. To better…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Yang Li , Xinyi Zeng , Zhe Xue , Pinxian Zeng , Zikai Zhang , Yan Wang

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) are noted for their brain-like computation and energy efficiency, but their performance lags behind Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) in tasks like image classification and object detection due to the limited…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Binghao Ye , Wenjuan Li , Dong Wang , Man Yao , Bing Li , Weiming Hu , Dong Liang , Kun Shang

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) are posited as a computationally efficient and biologically plausible alternative to conventional neural architectures, with their core computational framework primarily using the leaky integrate-and-fire…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Malyaban Bal , Abhronil Sengupta

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) are promising candidates for low-power edge computing in domains such as wearable sensing and time-series analysis. A key neuronal parameter, the leaky time constant (LTC), governs temporal integration of…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Chiu-Chang Cheng , Kapil Bhardwaj , Ya-Ning Chang , Sayani Majumdar , Chao-Hung Wang

Tiny Machine Learning (TinyML) has become a growing field in on-device processing for Internet of Things (IoT) applications, capitalizing on AI algorithms that are optimized for their low complexity and energy efficiency. These algorithms…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Asmer Hamid Ali , Mozhgan Navardi , Tinoosh Mohsenin