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most citedScaling Spike-driven Transformer with Efficient Spike Firing Approximation Training

48 citations · 179 across the 21 of their papers we have counts for

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21 papers

cs.NE2026

Burst Spiking Neural Networks

Jiahong Zhang, Sijun Shen, Man Yao +5

A central goal of current Spiking Neural Network (SNN) research is to improve their accuracy toward becoming low-power alternatives to Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs). This work…

cs.NE2026

Parallel Training in Spiking Neural Networks

Yanbin Huang, Man Yao, Yuqi Pan +5

The bio-inspired integrate-fire-reset mechanism of spiking neurons constitutes the foundation for efficient processing in Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs). Recent progress in large m…

cs.LG2025

SpikingBrain: Spiking Brain-inspired Large Models

Yuqi Pan, Yupeng Feng, Jinghao Zhuang +16

Mainstream Transformer-based large language models face major efficiency bottlenecks: training computation scales quadratically with sequence length, and inference memory grows lin…

cs.CV2024

Spike2Former: Efficient Spiking Transformer for High-performance Image Segmentation

Zhenxin Lei, Man Yao, Jiakui Hu +4

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) have a low-power advantage but perform poorly in image segmentation tasks. The reason is that directly converting neural networks with complex archit…

cs.CV2024

Efficient 3D Recognition with Event-driven Spike Sparse Convolution

Xuerui Qiu, Man Yao, Jieyuan Zhang +5

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) provide an energy-efficient way to extract 3D spatio-temporal features. Point clouds are sparse 3D spatial data, which suggests that SNNs should be w…

cs.CV2024★ 48 cited

Scaling Spike-driven Transformer with Efficient Spike Firing Approximation Training

Man Yao, Xuerui Qiu, Tianxiang Hu +7

The ambition of brain-inspired Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) is to become a low-power alternative to traditional Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs). This work addresses two major c…

cs.LG2024★ 1 cited

MetaLA: Unified Optimal Linear Approximation to Softmax Attention Map

Yuhong Chou, Man Yao, Kexin Wang +7

Various linear complexity models, such as Linear Transformer (LinFormer), State Space Model (SSM), and Linear RNN (LinRNN), have been proposed to replace the conventional softmax a…

cs.CV2024★ 1 cited

RSC-SNN: Exploring the Trade-off Between Adversarial Robustness and Accuracy in Spiking Neural Networks via Randomized Smoothing Coding

Keming Wu, Man Yao, Yuhong Chou +4

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) have received widespread attention due to their unique neuronal dynamics and low-power nature. Previous research empirically shows that SNNs with Poi…

cs.NE2024

SpikeVoice: High-Quality Text-to-Speech Via Efficient Spiking Neural Network

Kexin Wang, Jiahong Zhang, Yong Ren +4

Brain-inspired Spiking Neural Network (SNN) has demonstrated its effectiveness and efficiency in vision, natural language, and speech understanding tasks, indicating their capacity…

cs.AI2024★ 5 cited

Integer-Valued Training and Spike-Driven Inference Spiking Neural Network for High-performance and Energy-efficient Object Detection

Xinhao Luo, Man Yao, Yuhong Chou +2

Brain-inspired Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) have bio-plausibility and low-power advantages over Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs). Applications of SNNs are currently limited to s…

cs.NE2024★ 2 cited

High-Performance Temporal Reversible Spiking Neural Networks with Training Memory and Inference Cost

JiaKui Hu, Man Yao, Xuerui Qiu +6

Multi-timestep simulation of brain-inspired Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) boost memory requirements during training and increase inference energy cost. Current training methods ca…

cs.NE2024★ 19 cited

Spike-driven Transformer V2: Meta Spiking Neural Network Architecture Inspiring the Design of Next-generation Neuromorphic Chips

Man Yao, Jiakui Hu, Tianxiang Hu +5

Neuromorphic computing, which exploits Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) on neuromorphic chips, is a promising energy-efficient alternative to traditional AI. CNN-based SNNs are the c…

cs.NE2023★ 2 cited

Inherent Redundancy in Spiking Neural Networks

Man Yao, Jiakui Hu, Guangshe Zhao +4

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) are well known as a promising energy-efficient alternative to conventional artificial neural networks. Subject to the preconceived impression that SN…

cs.NE2023★ 35 cited

Spike-driven Transformer

Man Yao, Jiakui Hu, Zhaokun Zhou +4

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) provide an energy-efficient deep learning option due to their unique spike-based event-driven (i.e., spike-driven) paradigm. In this paper, we incorp…

cs.LG2023★ 2 cited

Probabilistic Modeling: Proving the Lottery Ticket Hypothesis in Spiking Neural Network

Man Yao, Yuhong Chou, Guangshe Zhao +4

The Lottery Ticket Hypothesis (LTH) states that a randomly-initialized large neural network contains a small sub-network (i.e., winning tickets) which, when trained in isolation, c…

cs.CV2022★ 2 cited

MSS-DepthNet: Depth Prediction with Multi-Step Spiking Neural Network

Xiaoshan Wu, Weihua He, Man Yao +3

Event cameras are considered to have great potential for computer vision and robotics applications because of their high temporal resolution and low power consumption characteristi…

cs.CV2022★ 1 cited

Attention Spiking Neural Networks

Man Yao, Guangshe Zhao, Hengyu Zhang +5

Benefiting from the event-driven and sparse spiking characteristics of the brain, spiking neural networks (SNNs) are becoming an energy-efficient alternative to artificial neural n…

cs.NE2021★ 15 cited

Advancing Spiking Neural Networks towards Deep Residual Learning

Yifan Hu, Lei Deng, Yujie Wu +2

Despite the rapid progress of neuromorphic computing, inadequate capacity and insufficient representation power of spiking neural networks (SNNs) severely restrict their applicatio…

cs.CV2021★ 18 cited

Efficient Visual Recognition with Deep Neural Networks: A Survey on Recent Advances and New Directions

Yang Wu, Dingheng Wang, Xiaotong Lu +4

Visual recognition is currently one of the most important and active research areas in computer vision, pattern recognition, and even the general field of artificial intelligence.…

cs.CV2021

Temporal-wise Attention Spiking Neural Networks for Event Streams Classification

Man Yao, Huanhuan Gao, Guangshe Zhao +4

How to effectively and efficiently deal with spatio-temporal event streams, where the events are generally sparse and non-uniform and have the microsecond temporal resolution, is o…

cs.CV2020★ 28 cited

Kronecker CP Decomposition with Fast Multiplication for Compressing RNNs

Dingheng Wang, Bijiao Wu, Guangshe Zhao +5

Recurrent neural networks (RNNs) are powerful in the tasks oriented to sequential data, such as natural language processing and video recognition. However, since the modern RNNs, i…