Neuromorphic Wireless Split Computing with Resonate-and-Fire Neurons

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Autori principali: Wu, Dengyu, Chen, Jiechen, Poor, H. Vincent, Rajendran, Bipin, Simeone, Osvaldo
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Pubblicazione: 2025
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author Wu, Dengyu
Chen, Jiechen
Poor, H. Vincent
Rajendran, Bipin
Simeone, Osvaldo
author_facet Wu, Dengyu
Chen, Jiechen
Poor, H. Vincent
Rajendran, Bipin
Simeone, Osvaldo
contents Neuromorphic computing offers an energy-efficient alternative to conventional deep learning accelerators for real-time time-series processing. However, many edge applications, such as wireless sensing and audio recognition, generate streaming signals with rich spectral features that are not effectively captured by conventional leaky integrate-and-fire (LIF) spiking neurons. This paper investigates a wireless split computing architecture that employs resonate-and-fire (RF) neurons with oscillatory dynamics to process time-domain signals directly, eliminating the need for costly spectral pre-processing. By resonating at tunable frequencies, RF neurons extract time-localized spectral features while maintaining low spiking activity. This temporal sparsity translates into significant savings in both computation and transmission energy. Assuming an OFDM-based analog wireless interface for spike transmission, we present a complete system design and evaluate its performance on audio classification and modulation classification tasks. Experimental results show that the proposed RF-SNN architecture achieves comparable accuracy to conventional LIF-SNNs and ANNs, while substantially reducing spike rates and total energy consumption during inference and communication.
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spellingShingle Neuromorphic Wireless Split Computing with Resonate-and-Fire Neurons
Wu, Dengyu
Chen, Jiechen
Poor, H. Vincent
Rajendran, Bipin
Simeone, Osvaldo
Machine Learning
Information Theory
Neural and Evolutionary Computing
Neuromorphic computing offers an energy-efficient alternative to conventional deep learning accelerators for real-time time-series processing. However, many edge applications, such as wireless sensing and audio recognition, generate streaming signals with rich spectral features that are not effectively captured by conventional leaky integrate-and-fire (LIF) spiking neurons. This paper investigates a wireless split computing architecture that employs resonate-and-fire (RF) neurons with oscillatory dynamics to process time-domain signals directly, eliminating the need for costly spectral pre-processing. By resonating at tunable frequencies, RF neurons extract time-localized spectral features while maintaining low spiking activity. This temporal sparsity translates into significant savings in both computation and transmission energy. Assuming an OFDM-based analog wireless interface for spike transmission, we present a complete system design and evaluate its performance on audio classification and modulation classification tasks. Experimental results show that the proposed RF-SNN architecture achieves comparable accuracy to conventional LIF-SNNs and ANNs, while substantially reducing spike rates and total energy consumption during inference and communication.
title Neuromorphic Wireless Split Computing with Resonate-and-Fire Neurons
topic Machine Learning
Information Theory
Neural and Evolutionary Computing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20015