Adaptive neuron pruning based on hybrid coding of temporal and rate

Yu Gong; YueHui Bao; ShuKai Duan

doi:10.1117/12.2671557

29 March 2023 Adaptive neuron pruning based on hybrid coding of temporal and rate

Yu Gong, YueHui Bao, ShuKai Duan

Proceedings Volume 12594, Second International Conference on Electronic Information Engineering and Computer Communication (EIECC 2022); 125942N (2023) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2671557
Event: Second International Conference on Electronic Information Engineering and Computer Communication (EIECC 2022), 2022, Xi'an, China

Abstract

Spiking neural networks have the nature of high efficiency, energy saving, and bio-interpretability. They communicate through sparse and asynchronous spikes, so they have received extensive attention in the field of neuromorphic engineering and brain-like computing. At present, the commonly used encoding methods are mainly single-rate encoding and temporal encoding. However, rate encoding cannot make use of the time information in the spike train, which has high energy consumption. Temporal encoding limits the computing power of neurons and will produce dead neurons. Moreover, it is critical to find effective solutions that reduce network complexity and improve energy efficiency while maintaining high accuracy. Therefore, we propose a hybrid coding method based on rate coding and temporal coding to solve the limitation of single coding. We propose an adaptive online pruning strategy based on hybrid coding. In this pruning strategy, 100 neurons are pruned out of the 200-neuron network, which reduces the network size and obtains a more compact network structure. The memory capacity is reduced by 1.9×, the energy efficiency is increased by 2.4×, and the classification accuracy is reduced by less than 0.5%.

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Yu Gong, YueHui Bao, and ShuKai Duan "Adaptive neuron pruning based on hybrid coding of temporal and rate", Proc. SPIE 12594, Second International Conference on Electronic Information Engineering and Computer Communication (EIECC 2022), 125942N (29 March 2023); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2671557

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