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Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) have incorporated more biologically-plausible structures and learning principles, hence are playing critical roles in bridging the gap between artificial and natural neural networks. The spikes are the sparse…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-10-08 Xiang Cheng , Tielin Zhang , Shuncheng Jia , Bo Xu

Compared with rate-based artificial neural networks, Spiking Neural Networks (SNN) provide a more biological plausible model for the brain. But how they perform supervised learning remains elusive. Inspired by recent works of Bengio et al.,…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Zhanhao Hu , Tao Wang , Xiaolin Hu

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) are biologically plausible models that have been identified as potentially apt for deploying energy-efficient intelligence at the edge, particularly for sequential learning tasks. However, training of SNNs…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-01-09 Marco Paul E. Apolinario , Kaushik Roy

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

The modular and hierarchical organization of the brain is believed to support the coexistence of segregated (specialization) and integrated (binding) information processes. A relevant question is yet to understand how such architecture…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-06-19 Raphaël Bergoin , Alessandro Torcini , Gustavo Deco , Mathias Quoy , Gorka Zamora-López

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) with leaky integrate and fire (LIF) neurons, can be operated in an event-driven manner and have internal states to retain information over time, providing opportunities for energy-efficient neuromorphic…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Wachirawit Ponghiran , Kaushik Roy

A common view in the neuroscience community is that memory is encoded in the connection strength between neurons. This perception led artificial neural network models to focus on connection weights as the key variables to modulate learning.…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Hananel Hazan , Simon Caby , Christopher Earl , Hava Siegelmann , Michael Levin

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) possess energy-efficient potential due to event-based computation. However, supervised training of SNNs remains a challenge as spike activities are non-differentiable. Previous SNNs training methods can be…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-10-08 Yunzhe Hao , Xuhui Huang , Meng Dong , Bo Xu

Brain-inspired spiking neural networks (SNNs) have gained prominence in the field of neuromorphic computing owing to their low energy consumption during feedforward inference on neuromorphic hardware. However, it remains an open challenge…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-03-04 Wenjie Wei , Malu Zhang , Jilin Zhang , Ammar Belatreche , Jibin Wu , Zijing Xu , Xuerui Qiu , Hong Chen , Yang Yang , Haizhou Li

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 architecture design and multi-scale learning principles of the human brain that evolved over hundreds of millions of years are crucial to realizing human-like intelligence. Spiking Neural Network (SNN) based Liquid State Machine (LSM)…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Wenxuan Pan , Feifei Zhao , Yi Zeng , Bing Han

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) compute using sparse communication and are attracting increased attention as a more energy-efficient alternative to traditional Artificial Neural Networks~(ANNs). While standard ANNs are stateless, spiking…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-06-27 Balázs Mészáros , James C. Knight , Thomas Nowotny

Neuromorphic computing is an emerging technology enabling low-latency and energy-efficient signal processing. A key algorithmic tool in neuromorphic computing is spiking neural networks (SNNs). SNNs are biologically inspired neural networks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Sanja Karilanova , Subhrakanti Dey , Ayça Özçelikkale

Towards energy-efficient artificial intelligence similar to the human brain, the bio-inspired spiking neural networks (SNNs) have advantages of biological plausibility, event-driven sparsity, and binary activation. Recently, large-scale…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-06-06 Xingrun Xing , Zheng Zhang , Ziyi Ni , Shitao Xiao , Yiming Ju , Siqi Fan , Yequan Wang , Jiajun Zhang , Guoqi Li

Spike-timing-dependent plasticity(STDP) is a biological process of synaptic modification caused by the difference of firing order and timing between neurons. One of the neurodynamical roles of STDP is to form a macroscopic geometrical…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2021-08-10 Hong-Gyu Yoon , Pilwon Kim

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) represent the most prominent biologically inspired computing model for neuromorphic computing (NC) architectures. However, due to the non-differentiable nature of spiking neuronal functions, the standard error…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-07-01 Jibin Wu , Yansong Chua , Malu Zhang , Guoqi Li , Haizhou Li , Kay Chen Tan

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) are one of the most promising bio-inspired neural networks models and have drawn increasing attention in recent years. The event-driven communication mechanism of SNNs allows for sparse and theoretically…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Andrea Castagnetti , Alain Pegatoquet , Benoît Miramond

Large Language Models (LLMs) excel across diverse domains but suffer from high energy costs due to quadratic attention and dense Feed-Forward Network (FFN) operations. To address these issues, we propose Module-aware Architecture Refinement…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Junhong Cai , Guiqin Wang , Kejie Zhao , Jianxiong Tang , Xiang Wang , Luziwei Leng , Ran Cheng , Yuxin Ma , Qinghai Guo

Brain-inspired learning mechanisms, e.g. spike timing dependent plasticity (STDP), enable agile and fast on-the-fly adaptation capability in a spiking neural network. When incorporating emerging nanoscale resistive non-volatile memory (NVM)…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Xinyu Wu , Vishal Saxena

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) are biologically inspired, event-driven models suited for temporal data processing and energy-efficient neuromorphic computing. In SNNs, richer neuronal dynamic allows capturing more complex temporal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Sanja Karilanova , Subhrakanti Dey , Ayça Özçelikkale