2 papers
cs.AI2026
Otters++: A Time-to-first-spike Based Energy Efficient Optical Spiking Transformer
Zhanglu Yan, Jiayi Mao, Kaiwen Tang +6
Spiking neural networks (SNNs) are promising for energy-efficient inference, and time-to-first-spike (TTFS) coding is especially attractive because each neuron fires at most once.…
cs.LG2025
Otters: An Energy-Efficient SpikingTransformer via Optical Time-to-First-Spike Encoding
Zhanglu Yan, Jiayi Mao, Qianhui Liu +5
Spiking neural networks (SNNs) promise high energy efficiency, particularly with time-to-first-spike (TTFS) encoding, which maximizes sparsity by emitting at most one spike per neu…