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ArticleBiomimetics (Basel, Switzerland)2024

LDD: High-Precision Training of Deep Spiking Neural Network Transformers Guided by an Artificial Neural Network.

Yuqian Liu, Chujie Zhao, Yizhou Jiang, Ying Fang, Feng Chen

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Article in Biomimetics (Basel, Switzerland), 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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5 · Who and what money

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5 authors.

Yuqian LiuDepartment of Automation, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China.ORCID 0000-0003-0858-0866
Chujie ZhaoDepartment of Automation, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China.ORCID 0000-0003-3710-2644
Yizhou JiangDepartment of Automation, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China.ORCID 0000-0002-7223-8937
Ying FangThe College of Computer and Cyber Security, Fujian Normal University, Fuzhou 350117, China.ORCID 0000-0002-8073-0964
Feng ChenDepartment of Automation, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China.ORCID 0000-0003-4813-2494

Funding

the National Key Research and Development Program of China under STI 2030--Major Projects 2021ZD0200300
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The rise of large-scale Transformers has led to challenges regarding computational costs and energy consumption. In this context, spiking neural networks (SNNs) offer potential solutions due to their energy efficiency and processing speed. However, the inaccuracy of surrogate gradients and feature space quantization pose challenges for directly training deep SNN Transformers. To tackle these challenges, we propose a method (called LDD) to align ANN and SNN features across different abstraction levels in a Transformer network. LDD incorporates structured feature knowledge from ANNs to guide SNN training, ensuring the preservation of crucial information and addressing inaccuracies in surrogate gradients through designing layer-wise distillation losses. The proposed approach outperforms existing methods on the CIFAR10 (96.1%), CIFAR100 (82.3%), and ImageNet (80.9%) datasets, and enables training of the deepest SNN Transformer network using ImageNet.

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distillationimage classificationspiking neural networks (SNNs)Transformer

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PMID39056854
PMCPMC11274868

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