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This study examines the impact of additive and multiplicative noise on both a single leaky integrate-and-fire (LIF) neuron and a trained spiking neural network (SNN). Noise was introduced at different stages of neural processing, including…

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This paper investigates the classification capability of small-scale spiking neural networks based on the Leaky Integrate-and-Fire (LIF) neuron model. We analyze the relationship between classification accuracy and three factors: the number…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2026-01-22 Zhengdi Zhang , Cong Han , Wenjun Xia

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) have sparse, event driven processing that can leverage neuromorphic applications. In this work, we introduce a multi-threading kernel that enables neuromorphic applications running at the edge, meaning they…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Lars Niedermeier , Vyom Shah , Jeffrey L. Krichmar

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) have a low-power advantage but perform poorly in image segmentation tasks. The reason is that directly converting neural networks with complex architectural designs for segmentation tasks into spiking versions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Zhenxin Lei , Man Yao , Jiakui Hu , Xinhao Luo , Yanye Lu , Bo Xu , Guoqi Li

Spiking neural network (SNN) has attracted much attention due to their powerful spatio-temporal information representation ability. Capsule Neural Network (CapsNet) does well in assembling and coupling features at different levels. Here, we…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-11-16 Dongcheng Zhao , Yang Li , Yi Zeng , Jihang Wang , Qian Zhang

In spiking neural networks (SNN), at each node, an incoming sequence of weighted Dirac pulses is converted into an output sequence of weighted Dirac pulses by a leaky-integrate-and-fire (LIF) neuron model based on spike aggregation and…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-02-09 Bernhard A. Moser , Michael Lunglmayr

Communication by rare, binary spikes is a key factor for the energy efficiency of biological brains. However, it is harder to train biologically-inspired spiking neural networks (SNNs) than artificial neural networks (ANNs). This is…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Ana Stanojevic , Stanisław Woźniak , Guillaume Bellec , Giovanni Cherubini , Angeliki Pantazi , Wulfram Gerstner

Temporal processing is fundamental for both biological and artificial intelligence systems, as it enables the comprehension of dynamic environments and facilitates timely responses. Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) excel in handling such data…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-02-14 Chenxiang Ma , Xinyi Chen , Yanchen Li , Qu Yang , Yujie Wu , Guoqi Li , Gang Pan , Huajin Tang , Kay Chen Tan , Jibin Wu

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) with their bio-inspired Leaky Integrate-and-Fire (LIF) neurons inherently capture temporal information. This makes them well-suited for sequential tasks like processing event-based data from Dynamic Vision…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Prajna G. Malettira , Shubham Negi , Wachirawit Ponghiran , Kaushik Roy

In order to ease the analysis of error propagation in neuromorphic computing and to get a better understanding of spiking neural networks (SNN), we address the problem of mathematical analysis of SNNs as endomorphisms that map spike trains…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-02-09 Bernhard A. Moser , Michael Lunglmayr

Standard Spiking Neural Network (SNN) models typically neglect metabolic constraints, treating neurons as energetically unconstrained components. We bridge this gap by implementing a conductance-based leaky integrate-and-fire (gLIF)…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-12-29 Ece Öner , Cenk Denktaş

Spiking neural network (SNN), as a brain-inspired energy-efficient neural network, has attracted the interest of researchers. While the training of spiking neural networks is still an open problem. One effective way is to map the weight of…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Yang Li , Yi Zeng

Quantum machine learning is in a period of rapid development and discovery, however it still lacks the resources and diversity of computational models of its classical complement. With the growing difficulties of classical models requiring…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-04 Dean Brand , Francesco Petruccione

U-Net, known for its simple yet efficient architecture, is widely utilized for image processing tasks and is particularly suitable for deployment on neuromorphic chips. This paper introduces the novel concept of Spiking-UNet for image…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-04-12 Hebei Li , Yueyi Zhang , Zhiwei Xiong , Xiaoyan Sun

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) offer energy-efficient and biologically plausible alternatives to traditional artificial neural networks, but their performance depends critically on the tuning of neuron model parameters. In this work, we…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Szymon Mazurek , Jakub Caputa , Maciej Wielgosz

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) with event-based computation are promising brain-inspired models for energy-efficient applications on neuromorphic hardware. However, most supervised SNN training methods, such as conversion from artificial…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-02-02 Mingqing Xiao , Qingyan Meng , Zongpeng Zhang , Yisen Wang , Zhouchen Lin

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) have recently gained significant interest in on-chip learning in embedded devices and emerged as an energy-efficient alternative to conventional Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs). However, to extend SNNs to a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-20 Manh V. Nguyen , Liang Zhao , Bobin Deng , William Severa , Honghui Xu , Shaoen Wu

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) have emerged as a biologically inspired alternative to conventional deep networks, offering event-driven and energy-efficient computation. However, their throughput remains constrained by the serial update of…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Hongyang Shang , Shuai Dong , Yahan Yang , Junyi Yang , Peng Zhou , Arindam Basu

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) with adaptive synapses reflect core properties of biological neural networks. Speech recognition, as an application involving audio coding and dynamic learning, provides a good test problem to study SNN…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-03-14 Amirhossein Tavanaei , Anthony S Maida

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) have been recently brought to light due to their promising capabilities. SNNs simulate the brain with higher biological plausibility compared to previous generations of neural networks. Learning with fewer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-01 Shahriar Rezghi Shirsavar , Mohammad-Reza A. Dehaqani