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We study the use of binary activated neural networks as interpretable and explainable predictors in the context of regression tasks on tabular data; more specifically, we provide guarantees on their expressiveness, present an approach based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Benjamin Leblanc , Pascal Germain

Third-generation artificial neural networks, Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs), can be efficiently implemented on hardware. Their implementation on neuromorphic chips opens a broad range of applications, such as machine learning-based…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Elisa Nguyen , Meike Nauta , Gwenn Englebienne , Christin Seifert

The surge in interest in Artificial Intelligence (AI) over the past decade has been driven almost exclusively by advances in Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs). While ANNs set state-of-the-art performance for many previously intractable…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-09-02 Peter G. Stratton , Andrew Wabnitz , Chip Essam , Allen Cheung , Tara J. Hamilton

Graph representation learning has become a crucial task in machine learning and data mining due to its potential for modeling complex structures such as social networks, chemical compounds, and biological systems. Spiking neural networks…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-03-27 Huifeng Yin , Mingkun Xu , Jing Pei , Lei Deng

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) offer a biologically inspired approach to computer vision that can lead to more efficient processing of visual data with reduced energy consumption. However, maintaining homeostasis within these networks is…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Sanket Kachole , Hussain Sajwani , Fariborz Baghaei Naeini , Dimitrios Makris , Yahya Zweiri

Deep learning's success comes with growing energy demands, raising concerns about the long-term sustainability of the field. Spiking neural networks, inspired by biological neurons, offer a promising alternative with potential computational…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Adalbert Fono , Manjot Singh , Ernesto Araya , Philipp C. Petersen , Holger Boche , Gitta Kutyniok

With the continued innovations of deep neural networks, spiking neural networks (SNNs) that more closely resemble biological brain synapses have attracted attention owing to their low power consumption.However, for continuous data values,…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Naoya Muramatsu , Hai-Tao Yu

Regarded as the third generation of neural networks, Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) have garnered significant traction due to their biological plausibility and energy efficiency. Recent advancements in large models necessitate spiking…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Chenlin Zhou , Sihang Guo , Jiaqi Wang , Dongyang Ma , Jin Cheng , Qingyan Meng , Zhengyu Ma , Yonghong Tian

Biological neurons communicate with a sparing exchange of pulses - spikes. It is an open question how real spiking neurons produce the kind of powerful neural computation that is possible with deep artificial neural networks, using only so…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2016-09-08 Davide Zambrano , Sander M. Bohte

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) represent the latest generation of neural computation, offering a brain-inspired alternative to conventional Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs). Unlike ANNs, which depend on continuous-valued signals, SNNs…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Sales G. Aribe

Neuromorphic computing has recently gained momentum with the emergence of various neuromorphic processors. As the field advances, there is an increasing focus on developing training methods that can effectively leverage the unique…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Sanaz Mahmoodi Takaghaj , Jack Sampson

Binary Spiking Neural Networks (BSNNs) inherit the eventdriven paradigm of SNNs, while also adopting the reduced storage burden of binarization techniques. These distinct advantages grant BSNNs lightweight and energy-efficient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-21 Yu Liang , Wenjie Wei , Ammar Belatreche , Honglin Cao , Zijian Zhou , Shuai Wang , Malu Zhang , Yang Yang

Spiking Neural Networks are powerful computational modelling tools that have attracted much interest because of the bioinspired modelling of synaptic interactions between neurons. Most of the research employing spiking neurons has been…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-03-05 Huanneng Qiu , Matthew Garratt , David Howard , Sreenatha Anavatti

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) are widely regarded as a biologically-inspired and energy-efficient alternative to classical artificial neural networks. Yet, their theoretical foundations remain only partially understood. In this work, we…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-29 Umberto Biccari

Brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) promise to enable vital functions, such as speech and prosthetic control, for individuals with neuromotor impairments. Central to their success are neural decoders, models that map neural activity to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Georgios Mentzelopoulos , Ioannis Asmanis , Konrad P. Kording , Eva L. Dyer , Kostas Daniilidis , Flavia Vitale

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

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) have recently emerged as an alternative to deep learning owing to sparse, asynchronous and binary event (or spike) driven processing, that can yield huge energy efficiency benefits on neuromorphic hardware.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-12 Youngeun Kim , Priyadarshini Panda

The spiking neural network, known as the third generation neural network, is an important network paradigm. Due to its mode of information propagation that follows biological rationality, the spiking neural network has strong energy…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Zihan Dai , Huanfei Ma

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) are gaining popularity in the computational simulation and artificial intelligence fields owing to their biological plausibility and computational efficiency. This paper explores the historical development of…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-08-29 Tianyu Zheng , Liyuan Han , Tielin Zhang

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