The paper introduces a noisy group neuron (NGN) model that uses synchronous resetting and neural stochasticity to improve spiking neural networks (SNNs). It combines this model with a mean‑field backpropagation framework and demonstrates superior performance on several benchmark datasets, achieving 87.35% accuracy on CIFAR10‑DVS in just 10 inference steps.
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: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.
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: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: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...
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:2604. 08894v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) offer superior energy efficiency over Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs).
arXiv:2606. 20151v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This work proposes a hybrid ANN-SNN pipeline that effectively leverages the rich embeddings of pretrained artificial neural networks (ANNs) to enable high-performance spiking neural networks (SNNs).
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.
arXiv:2608. 08317v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Biological neural systems achieve high efficiency and robustness through compartmentalized architectures.
arXiv:2606. 29099v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Artificial neural networks (ANN) provide accurate continuous-valued representation, whereas spiking neural networks (SNN) offer event-driven temporal processing, yet both paradigms face limitations when value encoding and timing dynamics must be learned within a single computational structure.
arXiv:2608. 08479v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Spiking neural networks (SNNs) offer a promising pathway to energy-efficient AI and brain-inspired computing.