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most citedA Retina-Inspired Pathway to Real-Time Motion Prediction inside Image Sensors for Extreme-Edge Intelligence

3 citations · 9 across the 18 of their papers we have counts for

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18 papers

cs.AI2026

HyperSpace: A Generalized Framework for Spatial Encoding in Hyperdimensional Representations

Shay Snyder, Andrew Capodieci, David Gorsich +1

Vector Symbolic Architectures (VSAs) provide a well-defined algebraic framework for compositional representations in hyperdimensional spaces. We introduce HyperSpace, an open-sourc…

physics.comp-ph2026

qFHRR: Rethinking Fourier Holographic Reduced Representations through Quantized Phase and Integer Arithmetic

Shay Snyder, Hamed Poursiami, Maryam Parsa

Fourier Holographic Reduced Representations (FHRR) provide a compositional framework for encoding structured information with complex-valued hypervectors. FHRR rely on floating-poi…

cs.AI2026

SRMU: Relevance-Gated Updates for Streaming Hyperdimensional Memories

Shay Snyder, Andrew Capodieci, David Gorsich +1

Sequential associative memories (SAMs) are difficult to build and maintain in real-world streaming environments, where observations arrive incrementally over time, have imbalanced…

cs.LG2025★ 2 cited

VS-Graph: Scalable and Efficient Graph Classification Using Hyperdimensional Computing

Hamed Poursiami, Shay Snyder, Guojing Cong +2

Graph classification is a fundamental task in domains ranging from molecular property prediction to materials design. While graph neural networks (GNNs) achieve strong performance…

eess.IV2025★ 3 cited

A Retina-Inspired Pathway to Real-Time Motion Prediction inside Image Sensors for Extreme-Edge Intelligence

Subhradip Chakraborty, Shay Snyder, Md Abdullah-Al Kaiser +3

The ability to predict motion in real time is fundamental to many maneuvering activities in animals, particularly those critical for survival, such as attack and escape responses.…

cs.LG2025

On the Privacy-Preserving Properties of Spiking Neural Networks with Unique Surrogate Gradients and Quantization Levels

Ayana Moshruba, Shay Snyder, Hamed Poursiami +1

As machine learning models increasingly process sensitive data, understanding their vulnerability to privacy attacks is vital. Membership inference attacks (MIAs) exploit model res…

cs.RO2025

Generalizable Reinforcement Learning with Biologically Inspired Hyperdimensional Occupancy Grid Maps for Exploration and Goal-Directed Path Planning

Shay Snyder, Ryan Shea, Andrew Capodieci +2

Real-time autonomous systems utilize multi-layer computational frameworks to perform critical tasks such as perception, goal finding, and path planning. Traditional methods impleme…

cs.NE2024

Spiking Neural Networks as a Controller for Emergent Swarm Agents

Kevin Zhu, Connor Mattson, Shay Snyder +4

Drones which can swarm and loiter in a certain area cost hundreds of dollars, but mosquitos can do the same and are essentially worthless. To control swarms of low-cost robots, res…

cs.CV2024

Retina-Inspired Object Motion Segmentation for Event-Cameras

Victoria Clerico, Shay Snyder, Arya Lohia +4

Event-cameras have emerged as a revolutionary technology with a high temporal resolution that far surpasses standard active pixel cameras. This technology draws biological inspirat…

cs.RO2024

Brain Inspired Probabilistic Occupancy Grid Mapping with Vector Symbolic Architectures

Shay Snyder, Andrew Capodieci, David Gorsich +1

Real-time robotic systems require advanced perception, computation, and action capability. However, the main bottleneck in current autonomous systems is the trade-off between compu…

cs.NE2024★ 3 cited

Hardware-Algorithm Re-engineering of Retinal Circuit for Intelligent Object Motion Segmentation

Jason Sinaga, Victoria Clerico, Md Abdullah-Al Kaiser +5

Recent advances in retinal neuroscience have fueled various hardware and algorithmic efforts to develop retina-inspired solutions for computer vision tasks. In this work, we focus…

cs.ET2024

Exploration of Novel Neuromorphic Methodologies for Materials Applications

Derek Gobin, Shay Snyder, Guojing Cong +3

Many of today's most interesting questions involve understanding and interpreting complex relationships within graph-based structures. For instance, in materials science, predictin…

cs.DC2024

Parallelized Multi-Agent Bayesian Optimization in Lava

Shay Snyder, Derek Gobin, Victoria Clerico +2

In parallel with the continuously increasing parameter space dimensionality, search and optimization algorithms should support distributed parameter evaluations to reduce cumulativ…

cs.ET2024

Asynchronous Neuromorphic Optimization with Lava

Shay Snyder, Sumedh R. Risbud, Maryam Parsa

Performing optimization with event-based asynchronous neuromorphic systems presents significant challenges. Intel's neuromorphic computing framework, Lava, offers an abstract appli…

cs.ET2024

Transductive Spiking Graph Neural Networks for Loihi

Shay Snyder, Victoria Clerico, Guojing Cong +4

Graph neural networks have emerged as a specialized branch of deep learning, designed to address problems where pairwise relations between objects are crucial. Recent advancements…

cs.RO2023

Zespol: A Lightweight Environment for Training Swarming Agents

Shay Snyder, Kevin Zhu, Ricardo Vega +2

Agent-based modeling (ABM) and simulation have emerged as important tools for studying emergent behaviors, especially in the context of swarming algorithms for robotic systems. Des…

cs.NE2023

Neuromorphic Bayesian Optimization in Lava

Shay Snyder, Sumedh R. Risbud, Maryam Parsa

The ever-increasing demands of computationally expensive and high-dimensional problems require novel optimization methods to find near-optimal solutions in a reasonable amount of t…

cs.CV2023★ 1 cited

Object Motion Sensitivity: A Bio-inspired Solution to the Ego-motion Problem for Event-based Cameras

Shay Snyder, Hunter Thompson, Md Abdullah-Al Kaiser +3

Neuromorphic (event-based) image sensors draw inspiration from the human-retina to create an electronic device that can process visual stimuli in a way that closely resembles its b…