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…