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Hauptverfasser: Ye, Shuhan, Qian, Yuanbin, Wang, Chong, Lin, Sunqi, Xu, Jiazhen, Qian, Jiangbo, Li, Yuqi
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Veröffentlicht: 2025
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Online-Zugang:https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.09269
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author Ye, Shuhan
Qian, Yuanbin
Wang, Chong
Lin, Sunqi
Xu, Jiazhen
Qian, Jiangbo
Li, Yuqi
author_facet Ye, Shuhan
Qian, Yuanbin
Wang, Chong
Lin, Sunqi
Xu, Jiazhen
Qian, Jiangbo
Li, Yuqi
contents Recently, Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) have demonstrated rich potential in computer vision domain due to their high biological plausibility, event-driven characteristic and energy-saving efficiency. Still, limited annotated event-based datasets and immature SNN architectures result in their performance inferior to that of Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs). To enhance the performance of SNNs on their optimal data format, DVS data, we explore using RGB data and well-performing ANNs to implement knowledge distillation. In this case, solving cross-modality and cross-architecture challenges is necessary. In this paper, we propose cross knowledge distillation (CKD), which not only leverages semantic similarity and sliding replacement to mitigate the cross-modality challenge, but also uses an indirect phased knowledge distillation to mitigate the cross-architecture challenge. We validated our method on main-stream neuromorphic datasets, including N-Caltech101 and CEP-DVS. The experimental results show that our method outperforms current State-of-the-Art methods. The code will be available at https://github.com/ShawnYE618/CKD
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spellingShingle Cross Knowledge Distillation between Artificial and Spiking Neural Networks
Ye, Shuhan
Qian, Yuanbin
Wang, Chong
Lin, Sunqi
Xu, Jiazhen
Qian, Jiangbo
Li, Yuqi
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
Recently, Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) have demonstrated rich potential in computer vision domain due to their high biological plausibility, event-driven characteristic and energy-saving efficiency. Still, limited annotated event-based datasets and immature SNN architectures result in their performance inferior to that of Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs). To enhance the performance of SNNs on their optimal data format, DVS data, we explore using RGB data and well-performing ANNs to implement knowledge distillation. In this case, solving cross-modality and cross-architecture challenges is necessary. In this paper, we propose cross knowledge distillation (CKD), which not only leverages semantic similarity and sliding replacement to mitigate the cross-modality challenge, but also uses an indirect phased knowledge distillation to mitigate the cross-architecture challenge. We validated our method on main-stream neuromorphic datasets, including N-Caltech101 and CEP-DVS. The experimental results show that our method outperforms current State-of-the-Art methods. The code will be available at https://github.com/ShawnYE618/CKD
title Cross Knowledge Distillation between Artificial and Spiking Neural Networks
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.09269