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Tong Bu

17 accepted papers

2026

PredNext: Explicit Cross-View Temporal Prediction for Unsupervised Learning in Spiking Neural Networks

ICLR 2026poster

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs), with their temporal processing capabilities and biologically plausible dynamics, offer a natural platform for unsupervised representation learning. However, current unsupervised SNNs predominantly employ shallow architectures or localized plasticity rules, limiting th…

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2025

Differential Coding for Training-Free ANN-to-SNN Conversion

ICML 2025poster

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) exhibit significant potential due to their low energy consumption. Converting Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) to SNNs is an efficient way to achieve high-performance SNNs. However, many conversion methods are based on rate coding, which requires numerous spikes and l…

2025

Inference-Scale Complexity in ANN-SNN Conversion for High-Performance and Low-Power Applications

CVPR 2025poster

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) have emerged as a promising substitute for Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) due to their advantages of fast inference and low power consumption. However, the lack of efficient training algorithms has hindered their widespread adoption. Even efficient ANN-SNN conversio…

2025

Proxy Target: Bridging the Gap Between Discrete Spiking Neural Networks and Continuous Control

NeurIPS 2025poster

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) offer low-latency and energy-efficient decision making on neuromorphic hardware, making them attractive for Reinforcement Learning (RL) in resource-constrained edge devices. However, most RL algorithms for continuous control are designed for Artificial Neural Networks…

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2024

A Progressive Training Framework for Spiking Neural Networks with Learnable Multi-hierarchical Model

ICLR 2024poster

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) have garnered considerable attention due to their energy efficiency and unique biological characteristics. However, the widely adopted Leaky Integrate-and-Fire (LIF) model, as the mainstream neuron model in current SNN research, has been revealed to exhibit significant…

2024

Enhancing Adversarial Robustness in SNNs with Sparse Gradients

ICML 2024poster

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) have attracted great attention for their energy-efficient operations and biologically inspired structures, offering potential advantages over Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) in terms of energy efficiency and interpretability. Nonetheless, similar to ANNs, the robustn…

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2024

Threaten Spiking Neural Networks through Combining Rate and Temporal Information

ICLR 2024poster

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) have received widespread attention in academic communities due to their superior spatio-temporal processing capabilities and energy-efficient characteristics. With further in-depth application in various fields, the vulnerability of SNNs under adversarial attack has be…

2023

Bridging the Gap between ANNs and SNNs by Calibrating Offset Spikes

ICLR 2023poster

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) have attracted great attention due to their distinctive characteristics of low power consumption and temporal information processing. ANN-SNN conversion, as the most commonly used training method for applying SNNs, can ensure that converted SNNs achieve comparable perf…

2023

Rate Gradient Approximation Attack Threats Deep Spiking Neural Networks

CVPR 2023poster

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) have attracted significant attention due to their energy-efficient properties and potential application on neuromorphic hardware. State-of-the-art SNNs are typically composed of simple Leaky Integrate-and-Fire (LIF) neurons and have become comparable to ANNs in image c…

2023

Red Teaming Deep Neural Networks with Feature Synthesis Tools

NeurIPS 2023poster

Interpretable AI tools are often motivated by the goal of understanding model behavior in out-of-distribution (OOD) contexts. Despite the attention this area of study receives, there are comparatively few cases where these tools have identified previously unknown bugs in models. We argue that this i…

2023

Reducing ANN-SNN Conversion Error through Residual Membrane Potential

AAAI 2023technical

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) have received extensive academic attention due to the unique properties of low power consumption and high-speed computing on neuromorphic chips. Among various training methods of SNNs, ANN-SNN conversion has shown the equivalent level of performance as ANNs on large-sc…

2022

Optimal ANN-SNN Conversion for High-accuracy and Ultra-low-latency Spiking Neural Networks

ICLR 2022poster

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) have gained great attraction due to their distinctive properties of low power consumption and fast inference on neuromorphic hardware. As the most effective method to get deep SNNs, ANN-SNN conversion has achieved comparable performance as ANNs on large-scale datasets.…

2022

Optimized Potential Initialization for Low-Latency Spiking Neural Networks

AAAI 2022technical

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) have been attached great importance due to the distinctive properties of low power consumption, biological plausibility, and adversarial robustness. The most effective way to train deep SNNs is through ANN-to-SNN conversion, which have yielded the best performance in d…

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2022

SNN-RAT: Robustness-enhanced Spiking Neural Network through Regularized Adversarial Training

NeurIPS 2022accept

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) are promising to be widely deployed in real-time and safety-critical applications with the advance of neuromorphic computing. Recent work has demonstrated the insensitivity of SNNs to small random perturbations due to the discrete internal information representation. T…

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