arXiv:2409. 08290v5 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) promise higher energy efficiency over conventional Quantized Artificial Neural Networks (QNNs) due to their event-driven, spike-based computation.
By Zhanglu Yan, Zhenyu Bai, Kaiwen Tang, Weng-Fai Wong
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:2609.15772v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Spiking neural networks (SNNs) have shown promise for sparse, event-driven computation through stateful processing that is naturally compatible with...
By Dalton Diez, Peyton Andras, Max Shroyer, James Ghawaly Jr
arXiv:2606.01442v2 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: Spiking neural networks (SNNs) are increasingly studied for network intrusion detection, but comparative evidence on how neuron models and sp...
By Raj Patel, Shaswata Mitra, David Amebley, Taye Akinrele, Sayanton Dibbo, Shahram Rahimi
The paper presents a spiking neural network (SNN) approach that uses time-to-first-spike (TTFS) coding to limit each neuron to at most one spike per time window, enabling energy-efficient large language models (LLMs). A reference-based strategy is introduced to encode the four core LLM components—embedding layers, layer normalization, attention-related operations, and dropout—allowing the construction of a fully TTFS-based SNN architecture trained end-to-end. Experiments on BERT and GPT-2 show performance comparable to artificial neural network (ANN) counterparts on natural language understanding and common-sense reasoning, while achieving a 1.5‑billion‑parameter spiking LLM and providing an estimate of spike-related energy consumption.
By Zhuoya Zhao, Parsa Omidi, Aref Jafari, Richard Naud
arXiv:2608. 03324v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Federated learning enables collaborative model training across distributed edge devices while strictly preserving data privacy.
By Shengyang Li, Yiting Dong, Liuyang Song, Ximing Wang, Luyuan Xie, Cong Li, Qingni Shen, Zhaofei Yu
arXiv:2608. 02995v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Modern large language models (LLMs) exhibit activation sparsity, wherein only a subset of their neurons is activated for given input tokens.
By Yongwan Jo, Jinyoung Park, Euihyun Lee, Dokyung Song
arXiv:2606. 01442v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Network intrusion detection is a core component of modern cybersecurity infrastructure, yet the deep learning models that dominate the field are computationally demanding, motivating interest in lightweight alternatives suited to edge and neuromorphic deployment.
By Raj Patel, David Amebley, Taye Akinrele, Shaswata Mitra, Sayanton Dibbo, Shahram Rahimi
arXiv:2608. 08479v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Spiking neural networks (SNNs) offer a promising pathway to energy-efficient AI and brain-inspired computing.
By Prasanna Date, Kevin Zhu, Shruti Kulkarni, Ashish Gautam, Chathika Gunaratne, Robert Patton, Tyler Nitzsche, Ian Mulet, Zachary Johnson-Scott, Addison Helms, Duncan Rowden, Simon Weston, Maryam Parsa, Catherine Schuman, Thomas Potok
The paper introduces Fast Preemptive Robustification (FPR), a lightweight defense that enhances the robustness of deep neural networks against transferable adversarial attacks. By sharpening Laplacian responses through a single 3×3 channel‑wise convolution, FPR eliminates the need for surrogate models, iterative optimization, or specialized training. Experiments show that FPR lowers untargeted attack success rates by 12.7% and reduces targeted attack success from 10.7% to 4.1%.
By Jiaming Liang, Chi-Man Pun
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.
By Zeyu Wang
arXiv:2609.26167v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Activation-energy pruning -- removing weights whose product of magnitude and cumulative pre-synaptic spike count falls below a threshold -- was establi...
By Joseph Bingham