A Unified Optimization Framework of ANN-SNN Conversion: Towards Optimal Mapping from Activation Values to Firing Rates

Haiyan Jiang, Srinivas Anumasa, Giulia De Masi, Huan Xiong, Bin Gu

Abstract: Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) have gained significant attention for their energy-efficient and fast-inference capabilities, but training SNNs from scratch can be challenging due to the discrete na...