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

48 citations · 115 across the 19 of their papers we have counts for

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20 papers

cs.CV2026

FocusVTC: Efficient and High-Performance Visual Text Compression with Adaptive Resolution

FangZhi Zhong, Xuerui Qiu, Yuqi Pan +4

Long-context reasoning in large language models incurs substantial computation and memory costs. Visual text compression (VTC) reduces input length by rendering text as images, but…

cs.NE2026

Spiking Neural Networks for fMRI-Based Visual Semantic Decoding

Jiahong Zhang, Jinning Zhao, Sijun Shen +3

Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI)-based visual decoding aims to recover visual information from measured brain activity, commonly by mapping fMRI responses into latent v…

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

SpikeMLLM: Spike-based Multimodal Large Language Models via Modality-Specific Temporal Scales and Temporal Compression

Han Xu, Zhiyong Qin, Di Shang +6

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have achieved remarkable progress but incur substantial computational overhead and energy consumption during inference, limiting deployment…

cs.NE2026

Spike-driven Large Language Model

Han Xu, Xuerui Qiu, Baiyu Chen +7

Current Large Language Models (LLMs) are primarily based on large-scale dense matrix multiplications. Inspired by the brain's information processing mechanism, we explore the funda…

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.CV2025

SVL: Empowering Spiking Neural Networks for Efficient 3D Open-World Understanding

Xuerui Qiu, Peixi Wu, Yaozhi Wen +5

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) provide an energy-efficient way to extract 3D spatio-temporal features. However, existing SNNs still exhibit a significant performance gap compared t…

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…