3 papers
cs.CV2026
Intrinsically Stable Spiking Neural Networks: Overcoming the Performance Barrier in the Absence of Batch Normalization
Ruichen Ma, Xiaoyang Zhang, Jian Bai +5
The performance of deep spiking neural networks (SNNs) often relies on batch normalization (BN). However, the advanced dynamic BN variants used in state-of-the-art models introduce…
cs.CV2025
I2E: Real-Time Image-to-Event Conversion for High-Performance Spiking Neural Networks
Ruichen Ma, Liwei Meng, Guanchao Qiao +3
Spiking neural networks (SNNs) promise highly energy-efficient computing, but their adoption is hindered by a critical scarcity of event-stream data. This work introduces I2E, an a…
cs.LG2024
A&B BNN: Add&Bit-Operation-Only Hardware-Friendly Binary Neural Network
Ruichen Ma, Guanchao Qiao, Yian Liu +4
Binary neural networks utilize 1-bit quantized weights and activations to reduce both the model's storage demands and computational burden. However, advanced binary architectures s…