SpikeZIP-TF: Conversion is All You Need for Transformer-based SNN
<|reference_start|>SpikeZIP-TF: Conversion is All You Need for Transformer-based SNN: Spiking neural network (SNN) has attracted great attention due to its characteristic of high efficiency and accuracy. Currently, the ANN-to-SNN conversion methods can obtain ANN on-par accuracy SNN with ultra-low latency (8 time-steps) in CNN structure on computer vision (CV) tasks. However, as Transformer-based networks have achieved prevailing precision on both CV and natural language processing (NLP), the Transformer-based SNNs are still encounting the lower accuracy w.r.t the ANN counterparts. In this work, we introduce a novel ANN-to-SNN conversion method called SpikeZIP-TF, where ANN and SNN are exactly equivalent, thus incurring no accuracy degradation. SpikeZIP-TF achieves 83.82% accuracy on CV dataset (ImageNet) and 93.79% accuracy on NLP dataset (SST-2), which are higher than SOTA Transformer-based SNNs. The code is available in GitHub: https://github.com/Intelligent-Computing-Research-Group/SpikeZIP_transformer<|reference_end|>
@article{you2024spikezip-tf:,
    title={SpikeZIP-TF: Conversion is All You Need for Transformer-based SNN},
    author={Kang You, Zekai Xu, Chen Nie, Zhijie Deng, Qinghai Guo, Xiang Wang and
  Zhezhi He},
    journal={International Conference on Machine Learning 2024},
    year={2024},
    archivePrefix={arXiv},
    eprint={2406.03470},
    primaryClass={cs.NE cs.AI}
}