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Zecheng Hao

16 accepted papers

2026

Rethinking SNN Online Training and Deployment: Gradient-Coherent Learning via Hybrid-Driven LIF Model

CVPR 2026

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) are considered to have enormous potential in the future development of Artificial Intelligence due to their brain-inspired and energy-efficient properties. Compared to vanilla Spatial-Temporal Back-propagation (STBP) training methods, online training can effectively av

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2026

Towards Lossless Memory-efficient Training of Spiking Neural Networks via Gradient Checkpointing and Spike Compression

ICLR 2026poster

Deep spiking neural networks (SNNs) hold immense promise for low-power event-driven computing, but their direct training via backpropagation through time (BPTT) incurs prohibitive memory cost, which limits their scalability. Existing memory-saving approaches, such as online learning, BPTT-to-BP, and…

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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

Faster and Stronger: When ANN-SNN Conversion Meets Parallel Spiking Calculation

ICML 2025poster

Spiking Neural Network (SNN), as a brain-inspired and energy-efficient network, is currently facing the pivotal challenge of exploring a suitable and efficient learning framework. The predominant training methodologies, namely Spatial-Temporal Back-propagation (STBP) and ANN-SNN Conversion, are encu…

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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2025

USP-Gaussian: Unifying Spike-based Image Reconstruction, Pose Correction and Gaussian Splatting

CVPR 2025highlight

Spike camera, as an innovative type of neuromorphic camera that captures scenes with 0-1 bit stream at 40 kHz, is increasingly being employed for the novel view synthesis task building on the techniques such as Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) and 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS). Previous spike-based appr…

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

LM-HT SNN: Enhancing the Performance of SNN to ANN Counterpart through Learnable Multi-hierarchical Threshold Model

NeurIPS 2024poster

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…

2024

SpikingResformer: Bridging ResNet and Vision Transformer in Spiking Neural Networks

CVPR 2024poster

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…

2024

Take A Shortcut Back: Mitigating the Gradient Vanishing for Training Spiking Neural Networks

NeurIPS 2024poster

The Spiking Neural Network (SNN) is a biologically inspired neural network infrastructure that has recently garnered significant attention. It utilizes binary spike activations to transmit information, thereby replacing multiplications with additions and resulting in high energy efficiency. However,…

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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…

2024

Towards Energy Efficient Spiking Neural Networks: An Unstructured Pruning Framework

ICLR 2024spotlight

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…

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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

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…