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Deep learning has recently led to great successes in tasks such as image recognition (e.g Krizhevsky et al., 2012). However, deep networks are still outmatched by the power and versatility of the brain, perhaps in part due to the richer…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-03-25 David P. Reichert , Thomas Serre

The ability to rapidly identify symmetry and anti-symmetry is an essential attribute of intelligence. Symmetry perception is a central process in human vision and may be key to human 3D visualization. While previous work in understanding…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2017-09-11 Jonathan K. George , Cesare Soci , Volker J. Sorger

Over the past decade Spiking Neural Networks (SNN) have emerged as one of the popular architectures to emulate the brain. In SNN, information is temporally encoded and communication between neurons is accomplished by means of spikes. In…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2016-12-14 Abhronil Sengupta , Aparajita Banerjee , Kaushik Roy

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

The escalating energy demands of artificial intelligence pose a critical challenge to conventional computing. Leveraging the efficiency of event-driven, in-memory neuromorphic architectures into the superconducting circuits with ultra-high…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Muen Wang , Shucheng Yang , Yuxiang Lin , Yuntian Gao , Xue Zhang , Xiaoping Gao , Minghui Niu , Huanli Liu , Yikang Wan , Wei Peng , Jie Ren

Recently several device and circuit design techniques have been explored for applying nano-magnets and spin torque devices like spin valves and domain wall magnets in computational hardware. However, most of them have been focused on…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2013-08-26 Mrigank Sharad , Charles Augustine , Kaushik Roy

On-chip edge intelligence has necessitated the exploration of algorithmic techniques to reduce the compute requirements of current machine learning frameworks. This work aims to bridge the recent algorithmic progress in training Binary…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-28 Sen Lu , Abhronil Sengupta

During last several years, our research team worked on development of a spiking neural network (SNN) architecture, which could be used in the wide range of supervised learning classification tasks. It should work under the condition, that…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Mikhail Kiselev

The increasing need for intelligent sensors in a wide range of everyday objects requires the existence of low power information processing systems which can operate autonomously in their environment. In particular, merging and processing…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-03-12 Johannes C. Thiele , Olivier Bichler , Antoine Dupret , Sergio Solinas , Giacomo Indiveri

We propose a new ternary spiking neuron model to improve the representation capacity of binary spiking neurons in deep Q-learning. Although a ternary neuron model has recently been introduced to overcome the limited representation capacity…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Aref Ghoreishee , Abhishek Mishra , John Walsh , Anup Das , Nagarajan Kandasamy

Spiking neural networks (SNN) are artificial computational models that have been inspired by the brain's ability to naturally encode and process information in the time domain. The added temporal dimension is believed to render them more…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2019-05-29 S. R. Nandakumar , Irem Boybat , Manuel Le Gallo , Evangelos Eleftheriou , Abu Sebastian , Bipin Rajendran

Third-generation neural networks, or Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs), aim at harnessing the energy efficiency of spike-domain processing by building on computing elements that operate on, and exchange, spikes. In this paper, the problem of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-02-23 Alireza Bagheri , Osvaldo Simeone , Bipin Rajendran

Neural networks have proven effective for solving many difficult computational problems. Implementing complex neural networks in software is very computationally expensive. To explore the limits of information processing, it will be…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-04-20 Jeffrey M. Shainline , Sonia M. Buckley , Richard P. Mirin , Sae Woo Nam

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs), characterized by discrete binary activations, offer high computational efficiency and low energy consumption, making them well-suited for computation-intensive tasks such as stereo image restoration. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Ronghua Xu , Jin Xie , Jing Nie , Jiale Cao , Yanwei Pang

This paper proposes an improved training algorithm for binary neural networks in which both weights and activations are binary numbers. A key but fairly overlooked feature of the current state-of-the-art method of XNOR-Net is the use of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-01 Adrian Bulat , Georgios Tzimiropoulos

We propose a spintronics-based hardware implementation of neuromorphic computing, specifically, the spiking neural network, using topological winding textures in one-dimensional antiferromagnets. The consistency of such a network is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-11-18 Shu Zhang , Yaroslav Tserkovnyak

We introduce an electro-optic hardware platform for nonlinear activation functions in optical neural networks. The optical-to-optical nonlinearity operates by converting a small portion of the input optical signal into an analog electric…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-09 Ian A. D. Williamson , Tyler W. Hughes , Momchil Minkov , Ben Bartlett , Sunil Pai , Shanhui Fan

In this paper authors have presented a power efficient scheme for implementing a spike sorting module. Spike sorting is an important application in the field of neural signal acquisition for implantable biomedical systems whose function is…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-02-27 Anand Kumar Mukhopadhyay , Indrajit Chakrabarti , Arindam Basu , Mrigank Sharad

This study explores how the selection of neuron models and learning rules impacts the classification performance of Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs), with a focus on applications in bio-signal processing. We compare biologically inspired…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-09-10 Zofia Rudnicka , Janusz Szczepanski , Agnieszka Pregowska

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) have garnered a great amount of interest for supervised and unsupervised learning applications. This paper deals with the problem of training multi-layer feedforward SNNs. The non-linear integrate-and-fire…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-07-30 Navin Anwani , Bipin Rajendran