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Zhengyu Ma

17 accepted papers

2026

Bio-Vision-Inspired Spiking Neural Networks for Object Detection with Event Cameras

ICML 2026poster

Retina-like event cameras and brain-inspired Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) demonstrate exceptional energy efficiency through bio-inspired sensing and computation. While SNNs are naturally well-suited to the asynchronous nature of event data, their practical applications face the following challenge…

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2026

EA3D: Event-Augmented 3D Diffusion for Generalizable Novel View Synthesis

ICLR 2026poster

We introduce **EA3D**, an Event-Augmented 3D Diffusion framework for generalizable novel view synthesis from event streams and sparse RGB inputs. Existing approaches either rely solely on RGB frames for generalizable synthesis, which limits their robustness under rapid camera motion, or require per…

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2026

Efficiently Training Time-to-First-Spike Spiking Neural Networks from Scratch

ICML 2026spotlight

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs), with their event-driven and biologically inspired mechanisms, are well-suited for energy-efficient neuromorphic hardware. Neural coding, which is critical to SNNs, determines how information is represented via spikes. While Time-to-First-Spike (TTFS) coding uses a sin…

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2026

Parallel Training Time-to-First-Spike Spiking Neural Networks

AAAI 2026technical

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) offer a promising energy-efficient computing paradigm owing to their event-driven properties and biologically inspired dynamics. Among various encoding schemes, Time-to-First-Spike (TTFS) is particularly notable for its extreme sparsity, utilizing a single spike per ne

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2026

SpikCommander: A High-performance Spiking Transformer with Multi-view Learning for Efficient Speech Command Recognition

AAAI 2026technical

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) offer a promising path toward energy-efficient speech command recognition (SCR) by leveraging their event-driven processing paradigm. However, existing SNN-based SCR methods often struggle to capture rich temporal dependencies and contextual information from speech due

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2026

Spikingformer: A Key Foundation Model for Spiking Neural Networks

AAAI 2026technical

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) offer a promising energy-efficient alternative to artificial neural networks, due to their event-driven spiking computation. However, some foundation SNN backbones (including Spikformer and SEW ResNet) suffer from non-spike computations (integer-float multiplications)

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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

Multiplication-Free Parallelizable Spiking Neurons with Efficient Spatio-Temporal Dynamics

NeurIPS 2025poster

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) are distinguished from Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) for their complex neuronal dynamics and sparse binary activations (spikes) inspired by the biological neural system. Traditional neuron models use iterative step-by-step dynamics, resulting in serial computation…

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2025

S$^2$M-Former: Spiking Symmetric Mixing Branchformer for Brain Auditory Attention Detection

NeurIPS 2025poster

Auditory attention detection (AAD) aims to decode listeners' focus in complex auditory environments from electroencephalography (EEG) recordings, which is crucial for developing neuro-steered hearing devices. Despite recent advancements, EEG-based AAD remains hindered by the absence of synergistic…

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2025

Time-Evolving Dynamical System for Learning Latent Representations of Mouse Visual Neural Activity

NeurIPS 2025poster

Seeking high-quality representations with latent variable models (LVMs) to reveal the intrinsic correlation between neural activity and behavior or sensory stimuli has attracted much interest. In the study of the biological visual system, naturalistic visual stimuli are inherently high-dimensional a…

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2024

Enhancing EEG-to-Text Decoding through Transferable Representations from Pre-trained Contrastive EEG-Text Masked Autoencoder

ACL 2024long

Reconstructing natural language from non-invasive electroencephalography (EEG) holds great promise as a language decoding technology for brain-computer interfaces (BCIs). However, EEG-based language decoding is still in its nascent stages, facing several technical issues such as: 1) Absence of a hyb…

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2024

Long-Range Feedback Spiking Network Captures Dynamic and Static Representations of the Visual Cortex under Movie Stimuli

NeurIPS 2024poster

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are widely used models for investigating biological visual representations. However, existing DNNs are mostly designed to analyze neural responses to static images, relying on feedforward structures and lacking physiological neuronal mechanisms. There is limited insight i…

2024

QKFormer: Hierarchical Spiking Transformer using Q-K Attention

NeurIPS 2024spotlight

Spiking Transformers, which integrate Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) with Transformer architectures, have attracted significant attention due to their potential for low energy consumption and high performance. However, there remains a substantial gap in performance between SNNs and Artificial Neural…

2023

A Unified Framework for Soft Threshold Pruning

ICLR 2023poster

Soft threshold pruning is among the cutting-edge pruning methods with state-of-the-art performance. However, previous methods either perform aimless searching on the threshold scheduler or simply set the threshold trainable, lacking theoretical explanation from a unified perspective. In this work, w…

2023

Deep Spiking Neural Networks with High Representation Similarity Model Visual Pathways of Macaque and Mouse

AAAI 2023technical

Deep artificial neural networks (ANNs) play a major role in modeling the visual pathways of primate and rodent. However, they highly simplify the computational properties of neurons compared to their biological counterparts. Instead, Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) are more biologically plausible mod…

2023

Parallel Spiking Neurons with High Efficiency and Ability to Learn Long-term Dependencies

NeurIPS 2023poster

Vanilla spiking neurons in Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) use charge-fire-reset neuronal dynamics, which can only be simulated serially and can hardly learn long-time dependencies. We find that when removing reset, the neuronal dynamics can be reformulated in a non-iterative form and parallelized. B…

2022

State Transition of Dendritic Spines Improves Learning of Sparse Spiking Neural Networks

ICML 2022spotlight

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) are considered a promising alternative to Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) for their event-driven computing paradigm when deployed on energy-efficient neuromorphic hardware. Recently, deep SNNs have shown breathtaking performance improvement through cutting-edge train…

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