14 accepted papers
Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) offer low-latency and energy-efficient decision-making on neuromorphic hardware by mimicking the event-driven dynamics of biological neurons. However, the discrete and non-differentiable nature of spikes leads to unstable gradient propagation in directly trained SNNs,…
Due to the scarcity of high-quality data, large language models (LLMs) are often trained on mixtures of data with varying quality levels, even after sophisticated data curation. A natural approach to better leverage high-quality data is curriculum-based pretraining, where the model is trained on dat…
The training of deep Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) has traditionally relied on Batch Normalization (BN), which stabilizes input currents and gradients during training. However, BN is not a universal solution. It is unsuitable for variable-length tasks and scenarios with reduced batch size, constrai…
Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) offer a notable energy-saving advantage compared to Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) when deployed on neuromorphic hardware. While recent SNNs achieve superior performance using larger and deeper backbones, this comes at a cost of diminishing their energy-saving benef…
While sparse coding plays an important role in promoting the efficiency of biological neural systems, it has not been fully utilized by artificial models as the activation sparsity is not well suited to the current structure of deep networks. Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs), with their event-driven c…
Process reward models (PRMs) offer fine-grained, step-level evaluations that facilitate deeper reasoning processes in large language models (LLMs), proving effective in complex tasks like mathematical reasoning. However, developing PRMs is challenging due to the high cost and limited scalability of…
Improving the mathematical reasoning capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs) is critical for advancing artificial intelligence. However, access to extensive, diverse, and high-quality reasoning datasets remains a significant challenge, particularly for the open-source community. In this paper,…
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…
Compared to traditional Artificial Neural Network (ANN), Spiking Neural Network (SNN) has garnered widespread academic interest for its intrinsic ability to transmit information in a more energy-efficient manner. However, despite previous efforts to optimize the learning algorithm of SNNs through va…
Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) provide a sparse spike-driven mechanism which is believed to be critical for energy-efficient deep learning. Mixture-of-Experts (MoE), on the other side, aligns with the brain mechanism of distributed and sparse processing, resulting in an efficient way of enhancing m…
The remarkable success of Vision Transformers in Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) has led to a growing interest in incorporating the self-attention mechanism and transformer-based architecture into Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs). While existing methods propose spiking self-attention mechanisms that…
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…
Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) have emerged as energy-efficient alternatives to Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) when deployed on neuromorphic chips. While recent studies have demonstrated the impressive performance of deep SNNs on challenging tasks, their energy efficiency advantage has been di…
"Research into Few-shot Semantic Segmentation (FSS) has attracted great attention, with the goal to segment target objects in a query image given only a few annotated support images of the target class. A key to this challenging task is to fully utilize the information in the support images by explo…