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Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) have shown competitive performance to Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) in various vision tasks, while offering superior energy efficiency. However, existing SNN-based Transformers primarily focus on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-16 Shihao Zou , Qingfeng Li , Wei Ji , Jingjing Li , Yongkui Yang , Guoqi Li , Chao Dong

With the rapid growth of dynamic vision sensor (DVS) data, constructing a low-energy, efficient data retrieval system has become an urgent task. Hash learning is one of the most important retrieval technologies which can keep the distance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Zihao Mei , Jianhao Li , Bolin Zhang , Chong Wang , Lijun Guo , Guoqi Li , Jiangbo Qian

The integration of self-attention mechanisms into Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) has garnered considerable interest in the realm of advanced deep learning, primarily due to their biological properties. Recent advancements in SNN…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-06-02 Kaiwei Che , Zhaokun Zhou , Zhengyu Ma , Wei Fang , Yanqi Chen , Shuaijie Shen , Li Yuan , Yonghong Tian

Spike-based Transformer presents a compelling and energy-efficient alternative to traditional Artificial Neural Network (ANN)-based Transformers, achieving impressive results through sparse binary computations. However, existing spike-based…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Donghyun Lee , Yuhang Li , Youngeun Kim , Shiting Xiao , Priyadarshini Panda

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) have gained significant attention due to their biological plausibility and energy efficiency, making them promising alternatives to Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs). However, the performance gap between SNNs…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Tianqing Zhang , Kairong Yu , Xian Zhong , Hongwei Wang , Qi Xu , Qiang Zhang

The ambition of brain-inspired Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) is to become a low-power alternative to traditional Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs). This work addresses two major challenges in realizing this vision: the performance gap…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Man Yao , Xuerui Qiu , Tianxiang Hu , Jiakui Hu , Yuhong Chou , Keyu Tian , Jianxing Liao , Luziwei Leng , Bo Xu , Guoqi Li

Vision Transformers (ViT) are current high-performance models of choice for various vision applications. Recent developments have given rise to biologically inspired spiking transformers that thrive in ultra-low power operations on…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-09-25 Boxun Xu , Hejia Geng , Yuxuan Yin , Peng Li

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) present a more energy-efficient alternative to Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) by harnessing spatio-temporal dynamics and event-driven spikes. Effective utilization of temporal information is crucial for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Minje Kim , Minjun Kim , Xu Yang

Attention is the brain's ability to selectively focus on a few specific aspects while ignoring irrelevant ones. This biological principle inspired the attention mechanism in modern Transformers. Transformers now underpin large language…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Kallol Mondal , Ankush Kumar

Neuromorphic computing, which exploits Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) on neuromorphic chips, is a promising energy-efficient alternative to traditional AI. CNN-based SNNs are the current mainstream of neuromorphic computing. By contrast, no…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-04-08 Man Yao , Jiakui Hu , Tianxiang Hu , Yifan Xu , Zhaokun Zhou , Yonghong Tian , Bo Xu , Guoqi Li

The dot product self-attention (DPSA) is a fundamental component of transformers. However, scaling them to long sequences, like documents or high-resolution images, becomes prohibitively expensive due to quadratic time and memory…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Pourya Shamsolmoali , Masoumeh Zareapoor , Eric Granger , Michael Felsberg

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs), particularly Spiking Transformers, offer energy-efficient processing of event-based sensor data for healthcare applications. Yet current architectures are rigid: they are trained and deployed as static…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Alberto Ancilotto , Gianluca Amprimo , Stefano Di Carlo , Elisabetta Farella

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) have made great progress on both performance and efficiency over the last few years,but their unique working pattern makes it hard to train a high-performance low-latency SNN.Thus the development of SNNs still…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Yudong Li , Yunlin Lei , Xu Yang

We initiate a line of investigation into biological neural networks from an algorithmic perspective. We develop a simplified but biologically plausible model for distributed computation in stochastic spiking neural networks and study…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2016-10-10 Nancy Lynch , Cameron Musco , Merav Parter

The combination of Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) with Vision Transformer architectures has garnered significant attention due to their potential for energy-efficient and high-performance computing paradigms. However, a substantial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Wei Hua , Chenlin Zhou , Jibin Wu , Yansong Chua , Yangyang Shu

Benefiting from the event-driven and sparse spiking characteristics of the brain, spiking neural networks (SNNs) are becoming an energy-efficient alternative to artificial neural networks (ANNs). However, the performance gap between SNNs…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-29 Man Yao , Guangshe Zhao , Hengyu Zhang , Yifan Hu , Lei Deng , Yonghong Tian , Bo Xu , Guoqi Li

Winner Take All (WTA) circuits a type of Spiking Neural Networks (SNN) have been suggested as facilitating the brain's ability to process information in a Bayesian manner. Research has shown that WTA circuits are capable of approximating…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-08-30 Otto van der Himst , Leila Bagheriye , Johan Kwisthout

Speech Emotion Recognition (SER) is widely deployed in Human-Computer Interaction, yet the high computational cost of conventional models hinders their implementation on resource-constrained edge devices. Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs)…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Xun Su , Huamin Wang , Qi Zhang

The Bayesian view of the brain hypothesizes that the brain constructs a generative model of the world, and uses it to make inferences via Bayes' rule. Although many types of approximate inference schemes have been proposed for hierarchical…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2019-11-15 Shashwat Shukla , Hideaki Shimazaki , Udayan Ganguly

The attention mechanism has been proven to be an effective way to improve spiking neural network (SNN). However, based on the fact that the current SNN input data flow is split into tensors to process on GPUs, none of the previous works…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-12 Haoyu Deng , Ruijie Zhu , Xuerui Qiu , Yule Duan , Malu Zhang , Liangjian Deng