arXiv AI

Not All Timesteps Matter Equally: Selective Alignment Knowledge Distillation for Spiking Neural Networks

arXiv:2605. 14252v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Spiking neural networks (SNNs), which are brain-inspired and spike-driven, achieve high energy efficiency.

arXiv AI
2d ago

SpikeMoE: Brain-Inspired Competitive Routing for Flexible Spiking Mixture-of-Experts

SpikeMoE introduces a spike-based k‑WTA router that uses lateral inhibition and refractory periods to select the top‑K experts based on discrete spike counts, inspired by hippocampal CA1 competition. The framework combines spiking neural network dynamics with mixture‑of‑experts conditional computation and adds a two‑stage missing‑modality module for robust multimodal processing. Experiments on vision, language, and multimodal tasks show that SpikeMoE matches or surpasses ANN baselines while offering energy‑efficient performance.

By Xiaoli Liu, Yujie Liang, Jialin Li, Malu Zhang
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 25

Kuramoto Oscillatory Phase Encoding: Neuro-inspired Synchronization for Improved Learning Efficiency

arXiv:2604. 07904v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Spatiotemporal neural dynamics and oscillatory synchronization are widely implicated in biological information processing and have been hypothesized to support flexible coordination such as feature binding.

By Mingqing Xiao, Yansen Wang, Dongqi Han, Caihua Shan, Dongsheng Li
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 15

Exploring napping paradigm for Recurrent Spiking Neural Networks

The paper proposes a biologically inspired micro‑sleep technique called napping for recurrent spiking neural networks, combining proportional weight scaling with continuous stochastic membrane activity. Experiments on an unsupervised SNN trained with trace‑based STDP on Gabor‑preprocessed MNIST show that well‑tuned napping can match the classification accuracy of conventional weight normalization while offering different clustering characteristics. The study suggests that napping may be preferable when representational structure is more important than raw classification speed, despite its higher simulation cost.

By Andreas Massey, Stefano Nichele, Aliaksandr Hubin