arXiv:2608. 13702v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Spiking neural networks (SNNs) offer an energy-efficient alternative to conventional deep neural networks by exploiting sparse event-driven computation, but their training remains challenging because the non-differentiable spike function requires surrogate gradients whose fixed shape may be suboptimal across layers and training stages.
By Kiran Nair, Rodrigue Rizk, KC Santosh
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).
By Denis Larionov, Khairutin Shtanchaev, Mikhail Kiselev, Mikhail Korovin, Ivan Tugoy
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. 05481v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We revisit a classic "chicken-and-egg" problem in reinforcement learning: to safely improve a policy, the value function must be accurate on the state-visitation distribution of the updated policy.
By Dillon Sandhu, Ronald Parr
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.
By Yechan Kang, Yongjin Kweon, Mingyeong Seo, Sohee Park, Yeonguk Jeon, Jongkil Park, Hyun Jae Jang, Jaewook Kim, YeonJoo Jeong, Suyoun Lee, Seongsik Park
arXiv:2607. 26509v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Deep off-policy reinforcement learning algorithms for continuous control typically rely on neural value function approximation to guide policy improvement.
By Gong Gao, Xiao Lai, Ziqi Xie, Guojie Chen, Xianhui Liu, Weidong Zhao