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Honglin Cao

12 accepted papers

2026

AdaS: Adaptive Gradient Descent for Spiking Transformers

ICML 2026poster

Transformer-based Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) combine Transformer performance with SNN energy efficiency through an event-driven self-attention mechanism. However, Spiking Transformers still lag behind their Artificial Neural Network (ANN) counterparts. Most existing studies address this issue th…

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2026

Positional Encoding for Spiking Transformers

ICML 2026poster

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) demonstrate superior energy efficiency over conventional Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs). Recent advances in Transformer-based SNNs have shown encouraging performance by seamlessly integrating spike-driven computation with Transformer architectures. Positional inform…

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2026

SmoothSpike: Spiking Transformer with Learnable Hadamard Transformation

ICML 2026spotlight

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) that leverage sparse binary spikes and temporal dynamics have emerged as energy-efficient alternatives to Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs). However, SNNs suffer from limited representational capacity due to the discrete nature of spikes. Existing solutions extending s…

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2026

SpikingLM: Towards Fully Spiking Language Model

ICML 2026poster

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) offer a promising avenue toward energy-efficient language modeling by replacing multiply-accumulate operations with sparse, event-driven computation. However, constructing fully spiking language models reveals two fundamental challenges: (1) gradient degradation from d…

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2026

Towards Training-Free and Accurate ANN-to-SNN Conversion via Activation-Aware Redistribution

AAAI 2026technical

Conversion represents an effective approach for obtaining low-power models by transforming Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) into event-driven Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) without additional training. However, existing training-free conversion methods often incur substantial conversion errors. Her

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2025

Binary Event-Driven Spiking Transformer

IJCAI 2025

Transformer-based Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) introduce a novel event-driven self-attention paradigm that combines the high performance of Transformers with the energy efficiency of SNNs. However, the larger model size and increased computational demands of the Transformer structure limit their p

2025

Bipolar Self-attention for Spiking Transformers

NeurIPS 2025spotlight

Harnessing the event-driven characteristic, Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) present a promising avenue toward energy-efficient Transformer architectures. However, existing Spiking Transformers still suffer significant performance gaps compared to their Artificial Neural Network counterparts. Through…

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2025

Leveraging Asynchronous Spiking Neural Networks for Ultra Efficient Event-Based Visual Processing

AAAI 2025technical

Event cameras encode visual information by generating asynchronous and sparse event streams, which hold great potential for low latency and low power consumption. Despite many successful implementations of event camera-based applications, most of them accumulate the events into frames and then utili…

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2025

QP-SNN: Quantized and Pruned Spiking Neural Networks

ICLR 2025poster

Brain-inspired Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) leverage sparse spikes to encode information and operate in an asynchronous event-driven manner, offering a highly energy-efficient paradigm for machine intelligence. However, the current SNN community focuses primarily on performance improvement by deve…

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2025

Quantized Spike-driven Transformer

ICLR 2025poster

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) are emerging as a promising energy-efficient alternative to traditional artificial neural networks (ANNs) due to their spike-driven paradigm. However, recent research in the SNN domain has mainly focused on enhancing accuracy by designing large-scale Transformer struct…

2025

S$^2$NN: Sub-bit Spiking Neural Networks

NeurIPS 2025poster

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) offer an energy-efficient paradigm for machine intelligence, but their continued scaling poses challenges for resource-limited deployment. Despite recent advances in binary SNNs, the storage and computational demands remain substantial for large-scale networks. To furt…

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2025

Towards Accurate Binary Spiking Neural Networks: Learning with Adaptive Gradient Modulation Mechanism

AAAI 2025technical

Binary Spiking Neural Networks (BSNNs) inherit the event-driven paradigm of SNNs, while also adopting the reduced storage burden of binarization techniques. These distinct advantages grant BSNNs lightweight and energy-efficient characteristics, rendering them ideal for deployment on resource-constra…