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Uncertainty estimation is a standard tool to quantify the reliability of modern deep learning models, and crucial for many real-world applications. However, efficient uncertainty estimation methods for spiking neural networks, particularly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Tao Sun , Sander Bohté

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) are brain-inspired, event-driven machine learning algorithms that have been widely recognized in producing ultra-high-energy-efficient hardware. Among existing SNNs, unsupervised SNNs based on synaptic…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Mingyuan Meng , Xingyu Yang , Lei Bi , Jinman Kim , Shanlin Xiao , Zhiyi Yu

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) are bio-inspired networks that process information conveyed as temporal spikes rather than numeric values. A spiking neuron of an SNN only produces a spike whenever a significant number of spikes occur within…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-03-06 Mathias Gehrig , Sumit Bam Shrestha , Daniel Mouritzen , Davide Scaramuzza

Lateral connection is a fundamental feature of biological neural circuits, facilitating local information processing and adaptive learning. In this work, we integrate lateral connections with a substructure selection network to develop a…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Linghao Feng , Dongcheng Zhao , Sicheng Shen , Yi Zeng

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) have received significant attention for their biological plausibility. SNNs theoretically have at least the same computational power as traditional artificial neural networks (ANNs). They possess potential of…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-06-04 Yangfan Hu , Huajin Tang , Gang Pan

Convolutional neural network (CNN) performs well in Hyperspectral Image (HSI) classification tasks, but its high energy consumption and complex network structure make it difficult to directly apply it to edge computing devices. At present,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-19 Yang Liu , Yahui Li , Rui Li , Liming Zhou , Lanxue Dang , Huiyu Mu , Qiang Ge

In this work, we propose stochastic Binary Spiking Neural Network (sBSNN) composed of stochastic spiking neurons and binary synapses (stochastic only during training) that computes probabilistically with one-bit precision for…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2020-02-27 Minsuk Koo , Gopalakrishnan Srinivasan , Yong Shim , Kaushik Roy

Spiking neural networks are motivated from principles of neural systems and may possess unexplored advantages in the context of machine learning. A class of \textit{convolutional spiking neural networks} is introduced, trained to detect…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-08-27 Daniel J. Saunders , Hava T. Siegelmann , Robert Kozma , Miklós Ruszinkó

Several previous studies on explanation for recurrent neural networks focus on approaches that find the most important input segments for a network as its explanations. In that case, the manner in which these input segments combine with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-19 Madhumita Sushil , Simon Šuster , Walter Daelemans

Video analysis is a computer vision task that is useful for many applications like surveillance, human-machine interaction, and autonomous vehicles. Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are currently the state-of-the-art methods for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Mireille El-Assal , Pierre Tirilly , Ioan Marius Bilasco

This study proposes a novel biologically plausible mechanism for generating low-dimensional spike-based text representation. First, we demonstrate how to transform documents into series of spikes spike trains which are subsequently used as…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Marcin Białas , Marcin Michał Mirończuk , Jacek Mańdziuk

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) are highly energy-efficient due to event-driven, sparse computation, but their training is challenged by spike non-differentiability and trade-offs among performance, efficiency, and biological plausibility.…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Zihan Huang , Zijie Xu , Yihan Huang , Shanshan Jia , Tong Bu , Yiting Dong , Wenxuan Liu , Jianhao Ding , Zhaofei Yu , Tiejun Huang

Recent advances in event-based shape determination from polarization offer a transformative approach that tackles the trade-off between speed and accuracy in capturing surface geometries. In this paper, we investigate event-based shape from…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Peng Kang , Srutarshi Banerjee , Henry Chopp , Aggelos Katsaggelos , Oliver Cossairt

Spiking Neural Network (SNN) is the third generation of Neural Network (NN) mimicking the natural behavior of the brain. By processing based on binary input/output, SNNs offer lower complexity, higher density and lower power consumption.…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-03-24 Khanh N. Dang , Abderazek Ben Abdallah

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) have ultra-low energy consumption and high biological plausibility due to their binary and bio-driven nature compared with artificial neural networks (ANNs). While previous research has primarily focused on…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-12-06 Jiahang Cao , Ziqing Wang , Hanzhong Guo , Hao Cheng , Qiang Zhang , Renjing Xu

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) can do inference with low power consumption due to their spike sparsity. ANN-SNN conversion is an efficient way to achieve deep SNNs by converting well-trained Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs). However, the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-03-24 Xiang He , Yang Li , Dongcheng Zhao , Qingqun Kong , Yi Zeng

Neural networks have emerged as essential components in safety-critical applications -- these use cases demand complex, yet trustworthy computations. Binarized Neural Networks (BNNs) are a type of neural network where each neuron is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Jiong Yang , Yong Kiam Tan , Mate Soos , Magnus O. Myreen , Kuldeep S. Meel

Although existing deep learning-based Ultra-Wide Band (UWB) channel estimation methods achieve high accuracy, their computational intensity clashes sharply with the resource constraints of low-cost edge devices. Motivated by this, this…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Youdong Zhang , Xu He , Xiaolin Meng

The efficiency of modern machine intelligence depends on high accuracy with minimal computational cost. In spiking neural networks (SNNs), synaptic delays are crucial for encoding temporal structure, yet existing models treat them as fully…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Lennart P. L. Landsmeer , Amirreza Movahedin , Mario Negrello , Said Hamdioui , Christos Strydis

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) have recently emerged as the low-power alternative to Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) because of their sparse, asynchronous, and binary event-driven processing. Due to their energy efficiency, SNNs have a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-18 Youngeun Kim , Joshua Chough , Priyadarshini Panda