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ArticleSensors (Basel, Switzerland)2022

Rethinking the Role of Normalization and Residual Blocks for Spiking Neural Networks.

Shin-Ichi Ikegawa, Ryuji Saiin, Yoshihide Sawada, Naotake Natori

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Article in Sensors (Basel, Switzerland), 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3citing papers in PubMed
0.9field-weighted citation impact, top 28% of its field
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3 citing papers in PubMed, 12 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Shin-Ichi IkegawaTokyo Research Center, Aisin Corporation, Akihabara Daibiru 7F 1-18-13, Sotokanda, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 101-0021, Japan.
Ryuji SaiinAISIN SOFTWARE Co., Ltd., Advance Square Kariya 7F 1-1-1, Aioicho, Kariya 448-0027, Aichi, Japan.
Yoshihide SawadaTokyo Research Center, Aisin Corporation, Akihabara Daibiru 7F 1-18-13, Sotokanda, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 101-0021, Japan.ORCID 0000-0001-7267-8660
Naotake NatoriTokyo Research Center, Aisin Corporation, Akihabara Daibiru 7F 1-18-13, Sotokanda, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 101-0021, Japan.
Aisin (Japan) · JP

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Biologically inspired spiking neural networks (SNNs) are widely used to realize ultralow-power energy consumption. However, deep SNNs are not easy to train due to the excessive firing of spiking neurons in the hidden layers. To tackle this problem, we propose a novel but simple normalization technique called postsynaptic potential normalization. This normalization removes the subtraction term from the standard normalization and uses the second raw moment instead of the variance as the division term. The spike firing can be controlled, enabling the training to proceed appropriately, by conducting this simple normalization to the postsynaptic potential. The experimental results show that SNNs with our normalization outperformed other models using other normalizations. Furthermore, through the pre-activation residual blocks, the proposed model can train with more than 100 layers without other special techniques dedicated to SNNs.

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normalizationpre-activation residual blocksspiking neural networks

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PMID35458860
PMCPMC9028401
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