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We present a method to train self-binarizing neural networks, that is, networks that evolve their weights and activations during training to become binary. To obtain similar binary networks, existing methods rely on the sign activation…

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Deep neural networks often suffer from poor performance or even training failure due to the ill-conditioned problem, the vanishing/exploding gradient problem, and the saddle point problem. In this paper, a novel method by acting the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-12 Mei Liu , Liangming Chen , Xiaohao Du , Long Jin , Mingsheng Shang

Computation using brain-inspired spiking neural networks (SNNs) with neuromorphic hardware may offer orders of magnitude higher energy efficiency compared to the current analog neural networks (ANNs). Unfortunately, training SNNs with the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-06-09 Eimantas Ledinauskas , Julius Ruseckas , Alfonsas Juršėnas , Giedrius Buračas

As traditional neural network consumes a significant amount of computing resources during back propagation, \citet{Sun2017mePropSB} propose a simple yet effective technique to alleviate this problem. In this technique, only a small subset…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-09-27 Bingzhen Wei , Xu Sun , Xuancheng Ren , Jingjing Xu

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) offer a biologically inspired computational paradigm that emulates neuronal activity through discrete spike-based processing. Despite their advantages, training SNNs with traditional backpropagation (BP)…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Mohammadnavid Ghader , Saeed Reza Kheradpisheh , Bahar Farahani , Mahmood Fazlali

The generation of transferable adversarial perturbations typically involves training a generator to maximize embedding separation between clean and adversarial images at a single mid-layer of a source model. In this work, we build on this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Krishna Kanth Nakka , Alexandre Alahi

Brain-inspired spiking neural networks (SNNs) are recognized as a promising avenue for achieving efficient, low-energy neuromorphic computing. Direct training of SNNs typically relies on surrogate gradient (SG) learning to estimate…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Jiaqiang Jiang , Wenfeng Xu , Jing Fan , Rui Yan

Memory footprint is one of the main limiting factors for large neural network training. In backpropagation, one needs to store the input to each operation in the computational graph. Every modern neural network model has quite a few…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-04 Georgii Novikov , Daniel Bershatsky , Julia Gusak , Alex Shonenkov , Denis Dimitrov , Ivan Oseledets

Inspired by BatchNorm, there has been an explosion of normalization layers in deep learning. Recent works have identified a multitude of beneficial properties in BatchNorm to explain its success. However, given the pursuit of alternative…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-27 Ekdeep Singh Lubana , Robert P. Dick , Hidenori Tanaka

Test-time adaptation (TTA) aims to mitigate performance degradation under distribution shifts by updating model parameters during inference. Existing approaches have primarily framed adaptation around affine modulation, focusing on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Hyeongyu Kim , Geonhui Han , Dosik Hwang

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs), providing more realistic neuronal dynamics, have been shown to achieve performance comparable to Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) in several machine learning tasks. Information is processed as spikes within…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Jiaqi Lin , Sen Lu , Malyaban Bal , Abhronil Sengupta

Representing signals using coordinate networks dominates the area of inverse problems recently, and is widely applied in various scientific computing tasks. Still, there exists an issue of spectral bias in coordinate networks, limiting the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-26 Zhicheng Cai , Hao Zhu , Qiu Shen , Xinran Wang , Xun Cao

The Spiking Neural Network (SNN), a biologically inspired neural network infrastructure, has garnered significant attention recently. SNNs utilize binary spike activations for efficient information transmission, replacing multiplications…

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Artificial neural networks (ANN), typically referred to as neural networks, are a class of Machine Learning algorithms and have achieved widespread success, having been inspired by the biological structure of the human brain. Neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-08 Murilo Gustineli

Binarization of neural network models is considered as one of the promising methods to deploy deep neural network models on resource-constrained environments such as mobile devices. However, Binary Neural Networks (BNNs) tend to suffer from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-31 Hyungjun Kim , Jihoon Park , Changhun Lee , Jae-Joon Kim

Data-free quantization is a task that compresses the neural network to low bit-width without access to original training data. Most existing data-free quantization methods cause severe performance degradation due to inaccurate activation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-23 Yefei He , Luoming Zhang , Weijia Wu , Hong Zhou

The proper initialization of weights is crucial for the effective training and fast convergence of deep neural networks (DNNs). Prior work in this area has mostly focused on balancing the variance among weights per layer to maintain…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-05 Maciej Skorski , Alessandro Temperoni , Martin Theobald

Emerged as a biology-inspired method, Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) mimic the spiking nature of brain neurons and have received lots of research attention. SNNs deal with binary spikes as their activation and therefore derive extreme…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-04 Yufei Guo , Weihang Peng , Yuanpei Chen , Liwen Zhang , Xiaode Liu , Xuhui Huang , Zhe Ma

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) have been put forward as an energy-efficient alternative to Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) since they perform sparse Accumulate operations instead of the power-hungry Multiply-and-Accumulate operations.…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Pranav Ramesh , Gopalakrishnan Srinivasan

The proliferation of Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) has led to increased energy consumption, raising concerns about their sustainability. Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs), which are inspired by biological neural systems and operate using…

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