arXiv:2607. 24396v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In deep learning, efficiency gets more and more important to compensate for the ongoing growth in model sizes and applications.
By Stefan Scholze, Johannes Partzsch, Sebastian H\"oppner, Florian Kelber, Andreas Dixius, Marco Stolba, Sirine Arfa, Marc Berthel, Georg Ellguth, Jim Garside, Hector A. Gonzalez, Stephan Hartmann, Thomas Kiel-Hocker, Dongwei Hu, Matthias Jobst, Khaleelulla Khan Nazeer, Tim Langer, Chen Liu, Gengting Liu, Matthias Lohrmann, Mantas Mikaitis, Felix Neum\"arker, Amirhossein Rostami, Stefan Schiefer, Tilo Schubert, Delong Shang, Bernhard Vogginger, Yexin Yan, Steve Furber, Christian Mayr
NeuroSketch presents a practical design recipe for neural decoding, beginning with a comparative study of nine basic architectures that identifies CNN‑2D as the most effective. The recipe incorporates macro‑level gradual feature‑map expansion and early downsampling, along with micro‑level grouped convolutions, resulting in two variants—NeuroSketch‑Base (1.4M parameters) and NeuroSketch‑Large (4.2M parameters). Across nearly 5,000 experiments on eight tasks involving visual, auditory, and speech modalities and EEG, SEEG, and ECoG signals, both variants outperform ten baseline models on every task.
By Gaorui Zhang, Zhizhang Yuan, Jialan Yang, Junru Chen, Fanqi Shen, Li Meng, Yang Yang
The paper presents a spiking neural network (SNN) approach that uses time-to-first-spike (TTFS) coding to limit each neuron to at most one spike per time window, enabling energy-efficient large language models (LLMs). A reference-based strategy is introduced to encode the four core LLM components—embedding layers, layer normalization, attention-related operations, and dropout—allowing the construction of a fully TTFS-based SNN architecture trained end-to-end. Experiments on BERT and GPT-2 show performance comparable to artificial neural network (ANN) counterparts on natural language understanding and common-sense reasoning, while achieving a 1.5‑billion‑parameter spiking LLM and providing an estimate of spike-related energy consumption.
By Zhuoya Zhao, Parsa Omidi, Aref Jafari, Richard Naud
arXiv:2608. 13702v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Spiking neural networks (SNNs) offer an energy-efficient alternative to conventional deep neural networks by exploiting sparse event-driven computation, but their training remains challenging because the non-differentiable spike function requires surrogate gradients whose fixed shape may be suboptimal across layers and training stages.
By Kiran Nair, Rodrigue Rizk, KC Santosh
Brain2Qwerty v2 is a model that decodes natural sentences from real‑time magnetoencephalography (MEG) recordings, achieving an average word error rate of 39% across 22,000 sentences typed by nine subjects. The model uses character, word, and sentence‑level representations and shows that decoding accuracy improves log‑linearly with more data, narrowing the gap to intracranial brain‑computer interfaces. AI contributes by replacing hand‑crafted event detection with deep learning, fine‑tuning large language models for semantic extraction, and employing AI agents to refine the decoding pipeline through automated code development.
By Mingfang Zhang, Jarod L\'evy, Cedric Rommel, J\'er\'emy Rapin, Corentin Bel, Julie Bonnaire, Daniel Nieto, Pierre Bourdillon, Svetlana Pinet, St\'ephane d'Ascoli, Thomas Moreau, Jean-R\'emi King
arXiv:2605. 08022v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) have been proposed as biologically plausible and energy-efficient alternatives to conventional Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs).
By Himanshu Udupi, Xiaocong Yang, ChengXiang Zhai