Inherent Redundancy in Spiking Neural Networks

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2308.08227v1
• Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2023 08:58:25 GMT
• Title: Inherent Redundancy in Spiking Neural Networks
• Authors: Man Yao, Jiakui Hu, Guangshe Zhao, Yaoyuan Wang, Ziyang Zhang, Bo Xu, Guoqi Li
• Abstract summary: Spiking Networks (SNNs) are a promising energy-efficient alternative to conventional artificial neural networks. In this work, we focus on three key questions regarding inherent redundancy in SNNs. We propose an Advance Attention (ASA) module to harness SNNs' redundancy.
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• Abstract: Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) are well known as a promising energy-efficient alternative to conventional artificial neural networks. Subject to the preconceived impression that SNNs are sparse firing, the analysis and optimization of inherent redundancy in SNNs have been largely overlooked, thus the potential advantages of spike-based neuromorphic computing in accuracy and energy efficiency are interfered. In this work, we pose and focus on three key questions regarding the inherent redundancy in SNNs. We argue that the redundancy is induced by the spatio-temporal invariance of SNNs, which enhances the efficiency of parameter utilization but also invites lots of noise spikes. Further, we analyze the effect of spatio-temporal invariance on the spatio-temporal dynamics and spike firing of SNNs. Then, motivated by these analyses, we propose an Advance Spatial Attention (ASA) module to harness SNNs' redundancy, which can adaptively optimize their membrane potential distribution by a pair of individual spatial attention sub-modules. In this way, noise spike features are accurately regulated. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed method can significantly drop the spike firing with better performance than state-of-the-art SNN baselines. Our code is available in \url{https://github.com/BICLab/ASA-SNN}.

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