The paper proposes a biologically inspired micro‑sleep technique called napping for recurrent spiking neural networks, combining proportional weight scaling with continuous stochastic membrane activity. Experiments on an unsupervised SNN trained with trace‑based STDP on Gabor‑preprocessed MNIST show that well‑tuned napping can match the classification accuracy of conventional weight normalization while offering different clustering characteristics. The study suggests that napping may be preferable when representational structure is more important than raw classification speed, despite its higher simulation cost.
arXiv:2607. 14672v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Continuous-time spiking neural networks (SNNs) provide an event-driven framework for temporal computation, computational neuroscience, and neuromorphic hardware.
Spiking neural networks (SNNs) are promoted as an energy-efficient substrate because sparse, event-driven activity replaces dense multiply-accumulates with cheap accumulates. We argue the energy dividend of sparsity is not a property of SNNs but of the task.
arXiv:2607. 26648v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Spiking neural networks (SNNs) are promoted as an energy-efficient substrate because sparse, event-driven activity replaces dense multiply-accumulates with cheap accumulates.
arXiv:2608.29869v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Spiking neural networks (SNNs) are often regarded as energy-efficient alternatives to artificial neural networks (ANNs), yet their advantage depends cr...
arXiv:2609.08070v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The brain uses discrete spikes for dynamic computation, yet, how neural microcircuits (NMCs) solve temporal credit assignment using local spike timin...
arXiv:2604. 08894v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) offer superior energy efficiency over Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs).
arXiv:2512. 01906v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Spiking neural networks (SNNs) are biologically inspired, event-driven models suited for temporal data processing and energy-efficient neuromorphic computing.
arXiv:2607. 02283v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In-context learning (ICL) operates via implicit gradient descent embedded in the forward pass of modern AI architectures -- Transformers, Mamba, state-space models, and MLPs.
arXiv:2606. 30676v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Deploying spiking neural networks (SNNs) on neuromorphic hardware demands aggressive synaptic pruning while preserving temporal computation integrity.
arXiv:2606. 11236v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Training deep spiking neural networks (SNNs) remains challenging due to sharp loss landscapes and temporal inconsistency caused by surrogate gradients.
arXiv:2605. 08022v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) have been proposed as biologically plausible and energy-efficient alternatives to conventional Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs).
arXiv:2606. 03935v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The ability to train spiking neural networks is essential for modeling biological neural networks as well as for neuromorphic computing.