18 accepted papers
Gradient-based optimization in class-incremental learning (CIL) often faces the plasticity–stability dilemma, since continuous weight updates can distort decision boundaries learned from earlier tasks. We revisit this problem from the viewpoint of stochastic geometric memory allocation and propose B…
Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) offer low-power, brain-inspired computation, but Transformer-based SNNs face deployment challenges on neuromorphic hardware due to complex operations and high communication overhead. We propose hardware-efficient attention mechanisms, \textbf{Simplified Spiking Attenti…
The human brain exhibits remarkable efficiency in processing sequential information, a capability deeply rooted in the temporal selectivity and stochastic competition of neuronal activation. Current continual learning in spiking neural networks (SNNs) faces a critical challenge: balancing task-speci…
Inspired by the human brain's ability to adapt to new tasks without erasing prior knowledge, we develop spiking neural networks (SNNs) with dynamic structures for Class Incremental Learning (CIL). Our analytical experiments reveal that limited datasets introduce biases in logits distributions among…
Artificial neural networks (ANNs) have demonstrated outstanding performance in numerous tasks, but deployment in resource-constrained environments remains a challenge due to their high computational and memory requirements. Spiking neural networks (SNNs) operate through discrete spike events and off…
Event-based object detection has attracted increasing attention for its high temporal resolution, wide dynamic range, and asynchronous address-event representation. Leveraging these advantages, spiking neural networks (SNNs) have emerged as a promising approach, offering low energy consumption and r…
The human brain utilizes spikes for information transmission and dynamically reorganizes its network structure to boost energy efficiency and cognitive capabilities throughout its lifespan. Drawing inspiration from this spike-based computation, Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) have been developed to c…
Brain disorders have been consistently associated with abnormalities in specific brain regions or neural circuits. Identifying key brain regional activities and functional connectivity patterns is essential for discovering more precise neurobiological biomarkers. However, previous studies have prima…
Deep neural networks (DNNs) excel in computer vision tasks, especially, few-shot learning (FSL), which is increasingly important for generalizing from limited examples. However, DNNs are computationally expensive with scalability issues in real world. Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs), with their even…
In recent years, with the advancements in brain science, spiking neural networks (SNNs) have garnered significant attention. SNNs can generate spikes that mimic the function of neurons transmission in humans brain, thereby significantly reducing computational costs by the event-driven nature during…
The training method of Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) is an essential problem, and how to integrate local and global learning is a worthy research interest. However, the current integration methods do not consider the network conditions suitable for local and global learning, and thus fail to balanc…
The next generation of machine intelligence requires the capability of continual learning to acquire new knowledge without forgetting the old one while conserving limited computing resources. Spiking neural networks (SNNs), compared to artificial neural networks (ANNs), have more characteristics th…
The emergence of deep and large-scale spiking neural networks (SNNs) exhibiting high performance across diverse complex datasets has led to a need for compressing network models due to the presence of a significant number of redundant structural units, aiming to more effectively leverage their low-p…
Spiking neural networks (SNNs) are well known as the brain-inspired models with high computing efficiency, due to a key component that they utilize spikes as information units, close to the biological neural systems. Although spiking based models are energy efficient by taking advantage of discrete…
Spiking neural networks (SNNs) have undergone continuous development and extensive study for decades, leading to increased biological plausibility and optimal energy efficiency. However, traditional training methods for deep SNNs have some limitations, as they rely on strategies such as pre-training…
Spiking neural networks (SNNs) have manifested remarkable advantages in power consumption and event-driven property during the inference process. To take full advantage of low power consumption and improve the efficiency of these models further, the pruning methods have been explored to find sparse…
Spiking neural networks (SNNs) serve as one type of efficient model to process spatio-temporal patterns in time series, such as the Address-Event Representation data collected from Dynamic Vision Sensor (DVS). Although convolutional SNNs have achieved remarkable performance on these AER datasets, be…
Spiking neural networks (SNNs) have increasingly drawn massive research attention due to biological interpretability and efficient computation. Recent achievements are devoted to utilizing the surrogate gradient (SG) method to avoid the dilemma of non-differentiability of spiking activity to directl…