Neuromorphic Computing

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Neuromorphic computing studies algorithms and physical systems that compute through neuron-like dynamics, spikes, sparse events, and sometimes sensing integrated with processing. Common approaches include spiking neural networks trained with surrogate gradients or converted from conventional networks, local learning such as spike-timing-dependent plasticity, reservoir computing, and specialized CMOS, FPGA, memristor, photonic, or analog hardware. These systems are tested on event-camera vision, speech, time-series, robotics, and edge sensing, with benchmarks such as DVS Gesture, N-MNIST, SHD, and CIFAR variants. The central challenge is turning sparse activity and device-level efficiency into reliable end-to-end gains without sacrificing accuracy, scalability, or fair comparison with conventional hardware.

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  1. EdgeSpike: Spiking Neural Networks for Low-Power Autonomous Sensing in Edge IoT Architectures

    Apr 29, 2026Gustav Olaf Yunus Laitinen-Fredriksson Lundstrom-Imanov, Taner YilmazEnergy-Efficient MLEdge Inference

    Department of Economics, Stockholm University, Universitetsvägen 10 A, SE-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden · Department of Computer Engineering, Afyon Kocatepe University, 03200 Afyonkarahisar, Türkiye

  2. Neuromorphic Graph Anomaly Detection via Adaptive STDP and Spiking Graph Neural Networks

    Apr 29, 2026Abdul Joseph Fofanah, Lian Wen, David Chen +2Graph Neural NetworksSpiking Neural Networks

    School of ICT, Griffith University, Australia

  3. Rapid tracking through strongly scattering media with physics-informed neuromorphic speckle analysis

    Apr 28, 2026Yuqing Cao, Shuo Zhu, Rongzhou Chen +3Event-Based VisionNeuromorphic Computing

    Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong, China.

  4. SpikingBrain2.0: Brain-Inspired Foundation Models for Efficient Long-Context and Cross-Platform Inference

    Apr 24, 2026Yuqi Pan, Jinghao Zhuang, Yupeng Feng +16Long-Context Language Model InferenceSpiking Neural Networks

    Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences · The Hong Kong Polytechnic University · Beijing Key Laboratory of Brain-Inspired General Intelligence Large Model +1

  5. ROSA: Robust and Energy-Efficient Microring-Based Optical Neural Networks via Optical Shift-and-Add and Layer-Wise Hybrid Mapping

    Apr 24, 2026Huifan Zhang, Yun Hu, Caizhi Sheng +2Energy-Efficient MLNeural Network Robustness

    ShanghaiTech University, Shanghai, China

  6. Neuromorphic Computing Based on Parametrically-Driven Oscillators and Frequency Combs

    Apr 23, 2026Mahadev Sunil Kumar, Adarsh GanesanDynamical SystemsReservoir Computing

    Amrita School of Computing, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Kollam, India 690525 · Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani – Dubai Campus, Dubai, United Arab Emirates 345055

  7. On the Role of Preprocessing and Memristor Dynamics in Reservoir Computing for Image Classification

    Apr 23, 2026Rishona Daniels, Duna Wattad, Ronny Ronen +2Reservoir ComputingNeuromorphic Computing

    Viterbi Faculty of Electrical and Computing Engineering, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel · College of Engineering and Physical Sciences, Aston University, Birmingham B4 7ET, United Kingdom

  8. Scalable Memristive-Friendly Reservoir Computing for Time Series Classification

    Apr 21, 2026Coşku Can Horuz, Andrea Ceni, Claudio Gallicchio +1Dynamic Neural NetworksEnergy-Efficient ML

    Adaptive AI Research Group University of Lübeck, Germany · Department of Computer Science University of Pisa, Italy

  9. Ternary Memristive Logic: Hardware for Reasoning Realized via Domain Algebra

    Apr 20, 2026Chao LiLogical ReasoningKnowledge Representation

  10. Fully Analog Resonant Recurrent Neural Network via Metacircuit

    Apr 19, 2026Zixin Zhou, Tianxi Jiang, Menglong Yang +3Efficient Neural Network InferenceTime Series Classification

    Institute of Humanoid Robots, CAS Key Laboratory of Mechanical Behavior and Design of Materials, Department of Precision Machinery and Precision Instrumentation, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, People’s Republic of China · State Key Laboratory of Mechanical System and Vibration, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, People’s Republic of China

  11. Closing the Theory-Practice Gap in Spiking Transformers via Effective Dimension

    Apr 17, 2026Dongxin Guo, Jikun Wu, Siu Ming YiuSpiking TransformersTransformer Attention

    *The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China · †Brain Investing Limited, Hong Kong, China

  12. Neuromorphic Parameter Estimation for Power Converter Health Monitoring Using Spiking Neural Networks

    Apr 17, 2026Hyeongmeen Baik, Hamed Poursiami, Maryam Parsa +1Parameter EstimationPredictive Maintenance

    University of Wisconsin–Madison Madison, Wisconsin, USA · George Mason University Fairfax, Virginia, USA

  13. Neuromorphic Spiking Ring Attractor for Proprioceptive Joint-State Estimation

    Apr 15, 2026Federica Ferrari, Flavia Davidhi, Bernard Maacaron +6Continuous Attractor Neural NetworksRobot State Estimation

    Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Genoa, Italy · Department of Neurosurgery, University Hospital Zürich, Switzerland · Institute of Neuroinformatics, Univ. of Zurich and ETH Zurich, Switzerland +3

  14. Gradient-Free Continual Learning in Spiking Neural Networks via Inter-Spike Interval Regularization

    Apr 14, 2026Samrendra Roy, Kazuma Kobayashi, Souvik Chakraborty +2Spiking Neural NetworksCatastrophic Forgetting

    University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Department of Nuclear, Plasma & Radiological Engineering, Urbana, IL, USA · Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, Department of Applied Mechanics, New Delhi, India · University of Texas at El Paso, Department of Computer Science, El Paso, TX, USA +1

  15. Neuromorphic Continual Learning for Sequential Deployment of Nuclear Plant Monitoring Systems

    Apr 13, 2026Samrendra Roy, Sajedul Talukder, Syed Bahauddin AlamIndustrial Control System SecurityIndustrial Anomaly Detection

    University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Department of Nuclear, Plasma & Radiological Engineering Urbana, IL, USA · University of Texas at El Paso Department of Computer Science El Paso, TX, USA · National Center for Supercomputing Applications Urbana, IL, USA

  16. SCNO: Spiking Compositional Neural Operator -- Towards a Neuromorphic Foundation Model for Nuclear PDE Solving

    Apr 13, 2026Samrendra Roy, Souvik Chakraborty, Rizwan-uddin +1PDE SolvingPDE Surrogate Modeling

    University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Department of Nuclear, Plasma & Radiological Engineering Urbana, IL, USA · Indian Institute of Technology Delhi Department of Applied Mechanics New Delhi, India · National Center for Supercomputing Applications Urbana, IL, USA

  17. Towards Green Wearable Computing: A Physics-Aware Spiking Neural Network for Energy-Efficient IMU-based Human Activity Recognition

    Apr 12, 2026Naichuan Zheng, Hailun Xia, Zepeng Sun +2Spiking Neural NetworksHuman Activity Recognition

    School of Information and Communication Engineering, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing, China · International School, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing, China

  18. Full Feature Spiking Neural Network Simulation on Micro-Controllers for Neuromorphic Applications at the Edge

    Apr 11, 2026L. Niedermeier, J. L. KrichmarNeuromorphic ComputingSpiking Neural Networks

    Niedermeier Consulting, Zurich, ZH, Switzerland · Department of Computer Science, University of California, Irvine, CA, USA · Department of Cognitive Sciences, University of California, Irvine, CA, USA

  19. Beyond Silicon: Materials, Mechanisms, and Methods for Physical Neural Computing

    Apr 10, 2026Stefan Fischer, Nihat Ay, Olaf Landsiedel +4Neuromorphic ComputingCompute-in-Memory

    Institute for Telematics, University of Lübeck, Germany · Institute for Data Science Foundations, TU Hamburg, Germany · Institute for Networked Cyber-Physical Systems, TU Hamburg, Germany +6

  20. A 0.5-V Linear Neuromorphic Voltage-to-Spike Encoder Using a Bulk-Driven Transconductor

    Apr 10, 2026Meysam Akbari, Erika Covi, Kea-Tiong TangLIF NeuronsSpike-Based Signal Encoding

    ZIAM & CogniGron, University of Groningen, 9747 AG Groningen, The Netherlands · Department of Electrical Engineering, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu 30013, Taiwan

  21. Thermal Anomaly Detection using Physics Aware Neuromorphic Networks: Comparison between Raw and L1C Sentinel-2 Data

    Apr 10, 2026Stephen Smith, Cormac Purcell, Gabriele Meoni +2Anomaly DetectionPhysics-Informed ML

    School of Physics, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia · BolgianTen Ltd., Liverpool, United Kingdom · School of Computer Science, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia +3

  22. Memory Wall is not gone: A Critical Outlook on Memory Architecture in Digital Neuromorphic Computing

    Apr 9, 2026Amirreza Yousefzadeh, Sameed Sohail, Ana Lucia VarbanescuNeuromorphic Computing

    University of Twente, Enschede, NL

  23. Energy-Based Dynamical Models for Neurocomputation, Learning, and Optimization

    Apr 6, 2026Arthur N. Montanari, Francesco Bullo, Dmitry Krotov +1Energy-Based ModelsNeural Network Optimization

    Center for Network Dynamics and the Department of Physics & Astronomy, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208, USA · Center for Control, Dynamical Systems, and Computation and the Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of California at Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA · Independent Researcher, Cambridge, MA 02141, USA +1

  24. Neuromorphic Computing for Low-Power Artificial Intelligence

    Apr 6, 2026Keshava Katti, Pratik Chaudhari, Deep JariwalaAnalog ComputingNeuromorphic Computing

    Electrical & Systems Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA.

  25. Efficient Onboard Spacecraft Pose Estimation with Event Cameras and Neuromorphic Hardware

    Apr 5, 2026Arunkumar Rathinam, Jules Lecomte, Jost Reelsen +3Spacecraft Pose EstimationRelative Pose Estimation

    University of Luxembourg · Fortiss GmbH, Munich, Germany · Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany +1

  26. YANA: Bridging the Neuromorphic Simulation-to-Hardware Gap

    Apr 3, 2026Brian Pachideh, Sven Nitzsche, Moritz Neher +5Neuromorphic ComputingSpiking Neural Networks

    FZI Research Center for Information Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany · Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany · Infineon Technologies, Dresden, Germany

  27. Biologically Realistic Dynamics for Nonlinear Classification in CMOS+X Neurons

    Apr 3, 2026Steven Louis, Hannah Bradley, Artem Litvinenko +3Spiking Neural NetworksNeuromorphic Computing

    Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering · Oakland University, Rochester, MI USA · Department of Physics

  28. Computing with Living Neurons: Chaos-Controlled Reservoir Computing with Knowledge Transplant

    Apr 2, 2026Seung Hyun Kim, Zhi Dou, Gaurav Upadhyay +6Reservoir ComputingNeuromorphic Computing

    Mechanical Science and Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign · Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign · Coordinated Science Laboratory, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign +6

  29. Oscillator-Based Associative Memory with Exponential Capacity: Theory, Algorithms, and Hardware Implementation

    Apr 1, 2026Arie Ogranovich, Taosha Guo, Arvind R. Venkatakrishnan +3Kuramoto ModelAssociative Memory

    Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, 93106, USA · Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA, 92697, USA

  30. Integer-State Dynamics of Quantized Spiking Neural Networks for Efficient Hardware Acceleration

    Apr 1, 2026Lei ZhangSpiking Neural NetworksNeuromorphic Computing

    Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science, University of Regina