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An exact mapping from ReLU networks to spiking neural networks

Stanojevic, Ana
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Woźniak, Stanisław
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Bellec, Guillaume  
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2023
Neural Networks

Deep spiking neural networks (SNNs) offer the promise of low-power artificial intelligence. However, training deep SNNs from scratch or converting deep artificial neural networks to SNNs without loss of performance has been a challenge. Here we propose an exact mapping from a network with Rectified Linear Units (ReLUs) to an SNN that fires exactly one spike per neuron. For our constructive proof, we assume that an arbitrary multi-layer ReLU network with or without convolutional layers, batch normalization and max pooling layers was trained to high performance on some training set. Furthermore, we assume that we have access to a representative example of input data used during training and to the exact parameters (weights and biases) of the trained ReLU network. The mapping from deep ReLU networks to SNNs causes zero percent drop in accuracy on CIFAR10, CIFAR100 and the ImageNet-like data sets Places365 and PASS. More generally our work shows that an arbitrary deep ReLU network can be replaced by an energy-efficient single-spike neural network without any loss of performance.

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DOI
10.1016/j.neunet.2023.09.011
Author(s)
Stanojevic, Ana
Woźniak, Stanisław
Bellec, Guillaume  
Cherubini, Giovanni
Pantazi, Angeliki
Gerstner, Wulfram  
Date Issued

2023

Published in
Neural Networks
Volume

168

Start page

74

End page

88

Editorial or Peer reviewed

REVIEWED

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EPFL

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January 10, 2024
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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/202855
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