arXiv:2606. 30676v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Deploying spiking neural networks (SNNs) on neuromorphic hardware demands aggressive synaptic pruning while preserving temporal computation integrity.
By Muhammad Hamza
arXiv:2603. 02234v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The Strong Lottery Ticket Hypothesis (SLTH) states that large, randomly initialized neural networks contain sparse subnetworks capable of approximating a target function at initialization without training, suggesting that pruning alone is sufficient.
By Davide Ferre' (CNRS, COATI, UniCA, I3S), Fr\'ed\'eric Giroire (I3S, COATI, UniCA), Frederik Mallmann-Trenn (CNRS, COATI, I3S, UniCA), Emanuele Natale (CNRS, COATI, I3S, UniCA)
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.
By Andreas Massey, Stefano Nichele, Aliaksandr Hubin
arXiv:2604. 08894v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) offer superior energy efficiency over Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs).
By Zecheng Hao, Shenghao Xie, Kang Chen, Wenxuan Liu, Zhaofei Yu, Tiejun Huang
arXiv:2607. 27990v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) communicate through sparse binary spike events rather than dense activations, enabling energy-efficient inference on neuromorphic hardware and motivating their use in always-on, battery-powered edge systems.
By Spyridon Raptis, Haralampos-G. Stratigopoulos
arXiv:2607. 14086v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robust and accurate neural decoders are integral to neurotechnologies such as brain-computer interfaces and closed-loop experiments.
By Ximeng Mao, Nanda H. Krishna, Avery Hee-Woon Ryoo, Matthew G. Perich, Guillaume Lajoie
arXiv:2607. 21353v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Machine unlearning aims to remove the influence of specific training data while preserving model utility.
By Billel Habbati, Alessio Merlo, Luca Verderame, Meriem Guerar
arXiv:2607. 11914v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: A central goal of current Spiking Neural Network (SNN) research is to improve their accuracy toward becoming low-power alternatives to Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs).
By Jiahong Zhang, Sijun Shen, Man Yao, Han Xu, Mingqiang Huang, Yonghong Tian, Bo Xu, Guoqi Li
arXiv:2605.30361v2 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) offer compelling energy efficiency on neuromorphic hardware, yet their training remains challenging because th...
By Dhruv Patankar, Sachit Ramesha Gowda
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:2606. 12278v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Neural network pruning reduces model size by removing less important parameters while aiming to preserve predictive performance.
By Romana Qureshi, Hafida Benhidour, Said Kerrache, Nahlah Aljeraisy
Machine unlearning aims to remove the influence of specific training data while preserving model utility. Many state-of-the-art approaches pursue this goal by restricting the forgetting update to a subset of parameters selected through gradient-based saliency.