March 2026

Conference Paper

Community detection with spiking neural networks for neuromorphic hardware

By:
Hamilton, Kathleen E; Imam, Neena ; Humble, Travis S
Page Number:
9
Book Title:
NCS '17: Proceedings of the Neuromorphic Computing Symposium
Publication Date:
March 12, 2026
Conference Name:
Neuromorphic Computing Symposia
Conference Location:
Knoxville, Tennessee, United States of America
Conference Sponsor:
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
View DOI Listing:
https://doi.org/10.1145/3183584.3183621

Abstract

We present results related to the performance of an algorithm for community detection which incorporates event-driven computation. We define a mapping which takes a graph 𝒢 to a system of symmetrically connected, spiking neurons and use spike train similarities to identify vertex communities. On a random graph with 128 vertices and known community structure we show how our approach can be used to identify individual communities from spiking neuron responses.