EB-SNN: An Ensemble Binary Spiking Neural Network for Visual Recognition
摘要
In recent years, spiking neural networks (SNNs) have gained significant attention in visual recognition tasks due to the low computational energy. However, most SNNs have a large number of parameters, which limits their use on resource-limited devices. In this paper, we propose an Ensemble Binary Spiking Neural Network (EB-SNN) for accurate and memory-friendly visual recognition. The EB-SNN is modeled by Ensemble Binary Weights (EBW) module, which integrates multiple binary weights for lightweight SNN modeling. Meanwhile, we propose Knowledge Alignment Strategy to ensure that the EB-SNN can approximate a well-trained SNN for good performance. Experimental results show that the EB-SNN can achieve accuracy of 95.39% on CIFAR10, using \(9.3\%\) memory of full-precision SNN.