Razor SNN: Efficient Spiking Neural Network with Temporal Embeddings

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2306.17597v1
• Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2023 12:17:30 GMT
• Title: Razor SNN: Efficient Spiking Neural Network with Temporal Embeddings
• Authors: Yuan Zhang, Jian Cao, Ling Zhang, Jue Chen, Wenyu Sun, Yuan Wang
• Abstract summary: Event streams generated by dynamic vision sensors (DVS) are sparse and non-uniform in the spatial domain. We propose an events sparsification spiking framework dubbed as Razor SNN, pruning pointless event frames progressively. Our Razor SNN achieves competitive performance consistently on four events-based benchmarks.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
• Abstract: The event streams generated by dynamic vision sensors (DVS) are sparse and non-uniform in the spatial domain, while still dense and redundant in the temporal domain. Although spiking neural network (SNN), the event-driven neuromorphic model, has the potential to extract spatio-temporal features from the event streams, it is not effective and efficient. Based on the above, we propose an events sparsification spiking framework dubbed as Razor SNN, pruning pointless event frames progressively. Concretely, we extend the dynamic mechanism based on the global temporal embeddings, reconstruct the features, and emphasize the events effect adaptively at the training stage. During the inference stage, eliminate fruitless frames hierarchically according to a binary mask generated by the trained temporal embeddings. Comprehensive experiments demonstrate that our Razor SNN achieves competitive performance consistently on four events-based benchmarks: DVS 128 Gesture, N-Caltech 101, CIFAR10-DVS and SHD.

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