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Weng-Fai Wong

3 accepted papers

2026

Otters: An Energy-Efficient Spiking Transformer via Optical Time-to-First-Spike Encoding

ICLR 2026poster

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 neuron. However, such energy advantage is often unrealized because inference requires evaluating a temporal decay function…

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2025

Sorbet: A Neuromorphic Hardware-Compatible Transformer-Based Spiking Language Model

ICML 2025poster

For reasons such as privacy, there are use cases for language models at the edge. This has given rise to small language models targeted for deployment in resource-constrained devices where energy efficiency is critical. Spiking neural networks (SNNs) offer a promising solution due to their energy ef…