Publications

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2026

Unsupervised local learning based on voltage-dependent synaptic plasticity for resistive and ferroelectric synapses.

Garg, N., Balafrej, I., Palhares, J., Begon-Lours, L., Florini, D., Falcone, D., Stecconi, T., Bragaglia, V., Offrein, B., Portal, J.-M., Querlioz, D., Beilliard, Y., Drouin, D., Alibart, F.

Communications Materials 7, 19 (2026)

2025

Enhancing Temporal Learning in Recurrent Spiking Networks for Neuromorphic Applications.

Balafrej, I., Bahadi, S., Rouat, J., Alibart, F.

Neuromorphic Computing and Engineering (2025)

2024

Enhancing Practicality and Efficiency of Deepfake Detection.

Balafrej, I., Dahmane, M.

Scientific Reports (2024)

2023

Structural Plasticity for Neuromorphic Networks with Electropolymerized Dendritic PEDOT Connections.

Balafrej, I., Janzakova, K., Kumar, A., Garg, N., Scholaert, C., Rouat, J., Drouin, D., Coffinier, Y., Pecqueur, S., Alibart, F.

Nature Communications (2023)

2023

Unsupervised and efficient learning in sparsely activated convolutional spiking neural networks enabled by voltage-dependent synaptic plasticity.

Goupy, G., Juneau-Fecteau, A., Garg, N., Balafrej, I., Alibart, F., Frechette, L., Drouin, D., Beilliard, Y.

Neuromorphic Computing and Engineering (2023)

2022

Voltage-Dependent Synaptic Plasticity (VDSP): Unsupervised probabilistic Hebbian plasticity rule based on neurons membrane potential.

Garg, N., Balafrej, I., Stewart, C. T., Portal, J.-M., Bocquet, M., Querlioz, D., Drouin, D., Rouat, J., Beilliard, Y., Alibart, F.

Frontiers in Neuroscience (2022)

2022

P-CRITICAL: a reservoir autoregulation plasticity rule for neuromorphic hardware.

Balafrej, I., Alibart, F., Rouat, J.

Neuromorphic Computing and Engineering (2022)

2021

Signals to Spikes for Neuromorphic Regulated Reservoir Computing and EMG Hand Gesture Recognition.

Garg, N., Balafrej, I., Beilliard, Y., Drouin, D., Alibart, F., Rouat, J.

International Conference on Neuromorphic Systems (ICONS 2021), ACM

2020

Improving Zero-Shot Neural Architecture Search with Parameters Scoring.

Celotti, L., Balafrej, I., Calvet, E.

(2020)

Presentations

2022 Garg, N., Balafrej, I., et al. Unsupervised Learning with Ferroelectric Synapses. IEEE 52nd European Solid-State Device Research Conference (2022).
2021 Balafrej, I., Alibart, F., Rouat, J. Neuromorphic Reservoirs for Energy-Efficient Task-Abstract Machine Learning Devices. Neural Interfaces and Systems Symposium (2021).
2021 Balafrej, I. Building hardware-friendly models for neuromorphic engineering. Workshop at the University of Montreal (2021).
2021 Garg, N., Balafrej, I., et al. Signals to Spikes for Neuromorphic Regulated Reservoir Computing. ICONS 2021, ACM.
2020 Balafrej, I., Rouat, J. P-CRITICAL: A Reservoir Autoregulation Plasticity Rule Designed for Loihi. Intel Neuromorphic Research Community Forum (2020).
2019 Balafrej, I., Rouat, J. Running the CRITICAL Plasticity Rule for Loihi. 3rd Intel Neuromorphic Research Community Workshop, Austria (2019).
2018 Tremblay, J.P., Balafrej, I., et al. A Cooperative Visually Grounded Dialogue Game with a Humanoid Robot. NeurIPS 2018, Demonstration track.