STATrack is a fully spiking neural network designed for UAV visual tracking using only RGB inputs, eliminating the need for costly event cameras. It introduces Adaptive Mutual Information Maximization (AMIM) to preserve fine-grained target information in deep spiking representations and a sample-difficulty-aware dynamic weighting strategy to adjust the mutual‑information constraint during training. Experiments on four UAV tracking benchmarks show that STATrack achieves state‑of‑the‑art performance while maintaining low theoretical energy consumption.
By Pengzhi Zhong, Jiwei Mo, Dan Zeng, Feixiang He, Shuiwang Li
arXiv:2609.37047v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: We propose a new spiking neural network (SNN) design to process static images and event streams using time-to-first-spike (TTFS) latencies. Our key r...
By Aidin Attar, Eleonora Cicciarella, Michele Rossi
Mask IPL introduces a Computation Graph Clipping technique that removes noise from Intrinsic Position Learning (IPL) in spiking neural networks for event-based tracking. By applying a validity mask to each layer, the method aligns forward and backward propagation with ideal gradients without adding parameters. Experiments show that Mask IPL consistently improves tracking performance on Tiny‑scale and Base‑scale benchmarks such as FE108, FELT, and VisEvent.
By Yimeng Shan, Malu Zhang
arXiv:2607. 11914v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: A central goal of current Spiking Neural Network (SNN) research is to improve their accuracy toward becoming low-power alternatives to Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs).
By Jiahong Zhang, Sijun Shen, Man Yao, Han Xu, Mingqiang Huang, Yonghong Tian, Bo Xu, Guoqi Li
Visual Prompting (VP) has emerged as an efficient paradigm for adapting large-scale pre-trained vision models to downstream tasks by incorporating learnable prompts at the input level. However, existing VP methods typically employ dense pixel-level prompts, which often suffer from redundant perturbations, limited generalization and energy inefficiency.
arXiv:2609.39514v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Vision-language-action (VLA) models bridge multimodal understanding and robotic control, advancing the dominant paradigm for embodied intelligence. How...
By Shuai Wang, Malu Zhang, Mingquan Liu, Weihui Dai, Dehao Zhang, Jieyuan Zhang, Yimeng Shan, Zijian Zhou, Yang Yang
The paper introduces the Sparse-Activation-ReLU (SAR) layer, a single‑step neural operator that promotes activation sparsity without surrogate‑gradient training and is compatible with event‑based computing. In a trunk‑based NOMAD architecture, SAR improves the combined Latency‑Error‑Energy (LEE) metric by over fivefold compared to Variable Spiking Neuron (VSN) and Leaky Integrate‑and‑Fire (LIF) models. Additional techniques such as synthetic knowledge distillation, a ReLU‑based spiking loss, and graph‑neighbor thresholding further reduce LEE and L2 error on the Heat Exchanger dataset, advancing energy‑efficient virtual sensing for edge deployment.
By William Howes, Farid Ahmed, Syed Bahauddin Alam
arXiv:2607. 04921v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Deep learning algorithms are notorious for their high carbon footprint and computational demands that limit their deployment on edge devices and raise concerns about their long-term sustainability.
By Manish Kolachalam, Rani Malhotra
arXiv:2606. 24075v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Although deep learning-based methods can achieve high accuracy in automatic modulation recognition (AMR) tasks, their high computational cost makes it difficult to strike a balance between accuracy and power consumption, thereby limiting their application on resource-constrained platforms.
By Xiaohu Li, Chongxiao Qu, Caiyong Lin, Chenxiao Dou, Wei Hua
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:2607. 27990v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) communicate through sparse binary spike events rather than dense activations, enabling energy-efficient inference on neuromorphic hardware and motivating their use in always-on, battery-powered edge systems.
By Spyridon Raptis, Haralampos-G. Stratigopoulos
arXiv:2604. 08894v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) offer superior energy efficiency over Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs).
By Zecheng Hao, Shenghao Xie, Kang Chen, Wenxuan Liu, Zhaofei Yu, Tiejun Huang