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Spikingformer: A Key Foundation Model for Spiking Neural Networks

Chenlin Zhou, Liutao Yu, Zhaokun Zhou, Han Zhang, Jiaqi Wang, Huihui Zhou, Zhengyu Ma, Yonghong Tian

Abstract

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) caused by the structure of their residual connections. These non-spike computations increase SNNs

BibTeX
@inproceedings{aaai2026_spikingformerake,
  title = {Spikingformer: A Key Foundation Model for Spiking Neural Networks},
  author = {Chenlin Zhou and Liutao Yu and Zhaokun Zhou and Han Zhang and Jiaqi Wang and Huihui Zhou and Zhengyu Ma and Yonghong Tian},
  booktitle = {AAAI 2026},
  year = {2026}
}