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: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. 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.
arXiv:2606. 03796v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Signed spiking neurons carry richer information than standard spiking neurons.
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...
arXiv:2608. 08479v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Spiking neural networks (SNNs) offer a promising pathway to energy-efficient AI and brain-inspired computing.
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.
The paper introduces the Sparse-Activation-ReLU (SAR) layer, a single‑step neural operator that promotes activation sparsity without surrogate‑gradient training and is compatible with event‑based computing. In a trunk‑based NOMAD architecture, SAR improves the combined Latency‑Error‑Energy (LEE) metric by over fivefold compared to Variable Spiking Neuron (VSN) and Leaky Integrate‑and‑Fire (LIF) models. Additional techniques such as synthetic knowledge distillation, a ReLU‑based spiking loss, and graph‑neighbor thresholding further reduce LEE and L2 error on the Heat Exchanger dataset, advancing energy‑efficient virtual sensing for edge deployment.
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. 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.
The paper introduces an implicit-perturbation zeroth-order (IPZO) architecture for fine-tuning spiking transformers on in‑memory computing (IMC) accelerators. By generating perturbations only for spike‑activated weight rows and combining them with IMC weighted sums, the design eliminates costly read‑modify‑write operations and reduces the hardware footprint of random number generators. An address‑driven XOR recombination scheme (PGU‑XOR) further mitigates spatial correlations, achieving near‑software accuracy while cutting perturbation energy by up to 50% compared to conventional explicit perturbation methods.
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.