collaborators

6 papers

q-bio.NC2026

Learning sequence timing and control of replay speed in networks of spiking neurons

Melissa Lober, Younes Bouhadjar, Markus Diesmann +1

Processing sequential inputs is a fundamental brain function, underlying tasks such as sensory perception, language, and motor control. A challenge in sequence processing is to rep…

cs.NE2026

SiLIF: Structured State Space Model Dynamics and Parametrization for Spiking Neural Networks

Maxime Fabre, Lyubov Dudchenko, Younes Bouhadjar +1

Multi-state spiking neurons combine sparse binary activations with rich second-order nonlinear recurrent dynamics, making them a promising alternative to standard deep learning mod…

cs.NE2026

Sparse Axonal and Dendritic Delays Enable Competitive SNNs for Keyword Classification

Younes Bouhadjar, Emre Neftci

Training transmission delays in spiking neural networks (SNNs) has been shown to substantially improve their performance on complex temporal tasks. In this work, we show that learn…

cs.LG2026

Dissecting Linear Recurrent Models: How Different Gating Strategies Drive Selectivity and Generalization

Younes Bouhadjar, Maxime Fabre, Felix Schmidt +1

Linear recurrent neural networks have emerged as efficient alternatives to the original Transformer's softmax attention mechanism, thanks to their highly parallelizable training an…

q-bio.NC2025

SymSeqBench: a unified framework for the generation and analysis of rule-based symbolic sequences and datasets

Barna Zajzon, Younes Bouhadjar, Maxime Fabre +5

Sequential structure is a key feature of multiple domains of natural cognition and behavior, such as language, movement and decision-making. Likewise, it is also a central property…

cs.LG2025

QS4D: Quantization-aware training for efficient hardware deployment of structured state-space sequential models

Sebastian Siegel, Ming-Jay Yang, Younes Bouhadjar +3

Structured State Space models (SSM) have recently emerged as a new class of deep learning models, particularly well-suited for processing long sequences. Their constant memory foot…