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most citedVersatile emulation of spiking neural networks on an accelerated neuromorphic substrate

43 citations · 227 across the 23 of their papers we have counts for

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26 papers

cs.NE2026

Upper bounds on the number of causal pieces in spiking neural networks

Dominik Dold, Dennis Elbrächter, Philipp Petersen

The input space of single-spike neural networks decomposes into causal pieces, and the number of causal pieces has been shown to provide a lower bound on the approximation error fo…

astro-ph.GA2026

Globular cluster Observations for Luminosity-dispersion Distances (GOLD): Project description and velocity catalogue

K. Fahrion, M. A. Beasley, A. Gvozdenko +10

We introduce and describe the Globular cluster Observations for Luminosity-Dispersion distances (GOLD) project, which has the principal aim of determining independent distances bas…

cs.NE2026

Equivalence of approximation by networks of single- and multi-spike neurons

Dominik Dold, Philipp Christian Petersen

In a spiking neural network, is it enough for each neuron to spike at most once? In recent work, approximation bounds for spiking neural networks have been derived, quantifying how…

eess.SY2025

Memristor-Based Neural Network Accelerators for Space Applications: Enhancing Performance with Temporal Averaging and SIRENs

Zacharia A. Rudge, Dominik Dold, Moritz Fieback +2

Memristors are an emerging technology that enables artificial intelligence (AI) accelerators with high energy efficiency and radiation robustness -- properties that are vital for t…

cs.AR2025

Guidance and Control Neural Network Acceleration using Memristors

Zacharia A. Rudge, Dario Izzo, Moritz Fieback +3

In recent years, the space community has been exploring the possibilities of Artificial Intelligence (AI), specifically Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs), for a variety of on board…

cs.NE2025

Reconfiguration of pivoting cube ensembles under local sensing constraints using geometric deep learning

Nadezhda Dobreva, Emmanuel Blazquez, Jai Grover +3

We demonstrate that local sensing is sufficient for effective global reconfiguration of homogeneous pivoting cube modular robots in two dimensions. While cube selection (i.e., whic…

cs.NE2025★ 6 cited

Energy efficiency analysis of Spiking Neural Networks for space applications

Paolo Lunghi, Stefano Silvestrini, Dominik Dold +3

While the exponential growth of the space sector and new operative concepts ask for higher spacecraft autonomy, the development of AI-assisted space systems was so far hindered by…

cs.NE2025

Causal pieces: analysing and improving spiking neural networks piece by piece

Dominik Dold, Philipp Christian Petersen

We introduce "causal pieces", a novel concept for analysing spiking neural networks (SNNs), inspired by "linear pieces" used to study expressivity and trainability in artificial ne…

astro-ph.IM2024

Continuous Design and Reprogramming of Totimorphic Structures for Space Applications

Dominik Dold, Amy Thomas, Nicole Rosi +2

Recently, a class of mechanical lattices with reconfigurable, zero-stiffness structures has been proposed, called Totimorphic lattices. In this work, we introduce a computational f…

cs.NE2024

Stable Learning Using Spiking Neural Networks Equipped With Affine Encoders and Decoders

A. Martina Neuman, Dominik Dold, Philipp Christian Petersen

We study the learning problem associated with spiking neural networks. Specifically, we focus on spiking neural networks composed of simple spiking neurons having only positive syn…

cs.NE2024

Scalable Network Emulation on Analog Neuromorphic Hardware

Elias Arnold, Philipp Spilger, Jan V. Straub +4

We present a novel software feature for the BrainScaleS-2 accelerated neuromorphic platform that facilitates the partitioned emulation of large-scale spiking neural networks. This…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2023

Totimorphic structures for space application

Amy Thomas, Jai Grover, Dario Izzo +1

We propose to use a recently introduced Totimorphic metamaterial for constructing morphable space structures. As a first step to investigate the feasibility of this concept, we pre…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2023★ 17 cited

Differentiable graph-structured models for inverse design of lattice materials

Dominik Dold, Derek Aranguren van Egmond

Architected materials possessing physico-chemical properties adaptable to disparate environmental conditions embody a disruptive new domain of materials science. Fueled by advances…

cs.CR2022★ 11 cited

Detection, Explanation and Filtering of Cyber Attacks Combining Symbolic and Sub-Symbolic Methods

Anna Himmelhuber, Dominik Dold, Stephan Grimm +2

Machine learning (ML) on graph-structured data has recently received deepened interest in the context of intrusion detection in the cybersecurity domain. Due to the increasing amou…

cs.NE2022★ 6 cited

Neuro-symbolic computing with spiking neural networks

Dominik Dold, Josep Soler Garrido, Victor Caceres Chian +2

Knowledge graphs are an expressive and widely used data structure due to their ability to integrate data from different domains in a sensible and machine-readable way. Thus, they c…

cs.NE2022★ 2 cited

Relational representation learning with spike trains

Dominik Dold

Relational representation learning has lately received an increase in interest due to its flexibility in modeling a variety of systems like interacting particles, materials and ind…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 6 cited

Evaluating the feasibility of interpretable machine learning for globular cluster detection

Dominik Dold, Katja Fahrion

Extragalactic globular clusters (GCs) are important tracers of galaxy formation and evolution. Obtaining GC catalogues from photometric data involves several steps which will likel…

cs.LG2021★ 6 cited

An energy-based model for neuro-symbolic reasoning on knowledge graphs

Dominik Dold, Josep Soler Garrido

Machine learning on graph-structured data has recently become a major topic in industry and research, finding many exciting applications such as recommender systems and automated t…

cs.NE2021★ 6 cited

Learning through structure: towards deep neuromorphic knowledge graph embeddings

Victor Caceres Chian, Marcel Hildebrandt, Thomas Runkler +1

Computing latent representations for graph-structured data is an ubiquitous learning task in many industrial and academic applications ranging from molecule synthetization to socia…

cs.CR2021★ 27 cited

Machine learning on knowledge graphs for context-aware security monitoring

Josep Soler Garrido, Dominik Dold, Johannes Frank

Machine learning techniques are gaining attention in the context of intrusion detection due to the increasing amounts of data generated by monitoring tools, as well as the sophisti…

cs.NE2021★ 8 cited

SpikE: spike-based embeddings for multi-relational graph data

Dominik Dold, Josep Soler Garrido

Despite the recent success of reconciling spike-based coding with the error backpropagation algorithm, spiking neural networks are still mostly applied to tasks stemming from senso…

q-bio.NC2019★ 43 cited

Versatile emulation of spiking neural networks on an accelerated neuromorphic substrate

Sebastian Billaudelle, Yannik Stradmann, Korbinian Schreiber +22

We present first experimental results on the novel BrainScaleS-2 neuromorphic architecture based on an analog neuro-synaptic core and augmented by embedded microprocessors for comp…

cs.NE2019★ 9 cited

Fast and energy-efficient neuromorphic deep learning with first-spike times

Julian Göltz, Laura Kriener, Andreas Baumbach +9

For a biological agent operating under environmental pressure, energy consumption and reaction times are of critical importance. Similarly, engineered systems are optimized for sho…

q-bio.NC2018★ 32 cited

Stochasticity from function -- why the Bayesian brain may need no noise

Dominik Dold, Ilja Bytschok, Akos F. Kungl +6

An increasing body of evidence suggests that the trial-to-trial variability of spiking activity in the brain is not mere noise, but rather the reflection of a sampling-based encodi…