提出新型脉冲神经元,提升边缘传感精度且不增加能耗
ShiftLIF: Efficient Multi-Level Spiking Neurons with Power-of-Two Quantization

- 用2的幂次级数对膜电位量化,实现精细表示
- 在10个数据集上精度优于或持平现有方法
- 无需乘法运算,适合低功耗硬件部署
脉冲神经网络(SNN)因事件驱动计算和时间滤波能力,适用于边缘感知。但标准漏电整合-放电(LIF)神经元仅通过二进制脉冲通信,严重限制表达能力。现有多级脉冲神经元虽提升信息传输,但常依赖均匀量化,与膜电位分布不匹配,或引入高成本突触乘法。本文提出ShiftLIF,将膜电位映射到对数间隔的2的幂次脉冲集合。该设计在小幅度区域(膜电位密集区)提供更细粒度表示,同时通过位移与累加实现无乘法突触计算。结果表明,ShiftLIF在10个涵盖无线、声学、运动和视觉感知任务的数据集上,精度持续优于或等于现有方法,同时保持接近标准二值LIF的突触能耗。这证明ShiftLIF为跨模态边缘感知提供了良好的精度-效率平衡。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Spiking neural networks (SNNs) are promising for edge sensing due to their event-driven computation and temporal filtering capability. However, standard leaky integrate-and-fire (LIF) neurons communicate only through binary spikes, which severely limit representational capacity. Existing multi-level spiking neurons improve information transmission, but often rely on uniform quantization that mismatches membrane-potential distributions or introduces costly synaptic multiplications. In this paper, we propose ShiftLIF, a multi-level spiking neuron that maps membrane potentials to a logarithmically spaced power-of-two spike set. This design provides finer representation in the small-amplitude regime, where membrane potentials are densely concentrated, while enabling multiplier-free synaptic computation through bit-shift and accumulation operations. As a result, ShiftLIF improves spike-level expressiveness without sacrificing the hardware-friendly nature of standard SNN computation. We evaluate ShiftLIF on 10 datasets spanning wireless, acoustic, motion, and visual sensing tasks. Results show that ShiftLIF consistently matches or exceeds the accuracy of existing multi-level spiking neurons while maintaining synaptic energy consumption close to standard binary LIF. These results indicate that ShiftLIF provides a favorable accuracy-efficiency trade-off for cross-modal edge sensing.
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