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.
By Carlo Wenig, Raoul-Martin Memmesheimer, Christian Klos
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.
By Sanja Karilanova, Subhrakanti Dey, Ay\c{c}a \"Oz\c{c}elikkale
arXiv:2504.14015v2 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: We introduce "causal pieces", a novel concept for analysing spiking neural networks (SNNs), inspired by "linear pieces" used to study express...
By Dominik Dold, Philipp Christian Petersen
arXiv:2606. 13016v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Spiking neural networks (SNNs) are promising for energy-efficient inference, and time-to-first-spike (TTFS) coding is especially attractive because each neuron fires at most once.
By Zhanglu Yan, Jiayi Mao, Kaiwen Tang, Fanfan Li, Gang Pan, Tao Luo, Bowen Zhu, Qianhui Liu, Weng-Fai Wong
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
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
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
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:2609.37047v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: We propose a new spiking neural network (SNN) design to process static images and event streams using time-to-first-spike (TTFS) latencies. Our key r...
By Aidin Attar, Eleonora Cicciarella, Michele Rossi
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.
By Zeyu Wang
The paper demonstrates that for a broad class of spiking neuron models, including the leaky integrate‑and‑fire with subtractive reset, any approximation bound proven for multi‑spike networks can be translated to an equivalent single‑spike network with only a linear change in neuron count, and vice versa. This establishes that single‑spike and multi‑spike neural networks possess identical approximation capabilities for general machine learning tasks. Consequently, existing approximation results for single‑spike networks automatically extend to the multi‑spike case.
By Dominik Dold, Philipp Christian Petersen