Neuromorphic Astronomy: An End-to-End SNN Pipeline for RFI Detection Hardware
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| author | Pritchard, Nicholas J. Wicenec, Andreas Dodson, Richard Bennamoun, Mohammed Muir, Dylan R. |
| author_facet | Pritchard, Nicholas J. Wicenec, Andreas Dodson, Richard Bennamoun, Mohammed Muir, Dylan R. |
| contents | Imminent radio telescope observatories provide massive data rates making deep learning based processing appealing while simultaneously demanding real-time performance at low-energy; prohibiting the use of many artificial neural network based approaches. We begin tackling the scientifically existential challenge of Radio Frequency Interference (RFI) detection by deploying deep Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) on resource-constrained neuromorphic hardware. Our approach partitions large, pre-trained networks onto SynSense Xylo hardware using maximal splitting, a novel greedy algorithm. We validate this pipeline with on-chip power measurements, achieving instrument-scaled inference at 100mW. While our full-scale SNN achieves state-of-the-art accuracy among SNN baselines, our experiments reveal a more important insight that a smaller un-partitioned model significantly outperforms larger, split models. This finding highlights that hardware co-design is paramount for optimal performance. Our work thus provides a practical deployment blueprint, a key insight into the challenges of model scaling, and reinforces radio astronomy as a demanding yet ideal domain for advancing applied neuromorphic computing. |
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| spellingShingle | Neuromorphic Astronomy: An End-to-End SNN Pipeline for RFI Detection Hardware Pritchard, Nicholas J. Wicenec, Andreas Dodson, Richard Bennamoun, Mohammed Muir, Dylan R. Neural and Evolutionary Computing Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics Imminent radio telescope observatories provide massive data rates making deep learning based processing appealing while simultaneously demanding real-time performance at low-energy; prohibiting the use of many artificial neural network based approaches. We begin tackling the scientifically existential challenge of Radio Frequency Interference (RFI) detection by deploying deep Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) on resource-constrained neuromorphic hardware. Our approach partitions large, pre-trained networks onto SynSense Xylo hardware using maximal splitting, a novel greedy algorithm. We validate this pipeline with on-chip power measurements, achieving instrument-scaled inference at 100mW. While our full-scale SNN achieves state-of-the-art accuracy among SNN baselines, our experiments reveal a more important insight that a smaller un-partitioned model significantly outperforms larger, split models. This finding highlights that hardware co-design is paramount for optimal performance. Our work thus provides a practical deployment blueprint, a key insight into the challenges of model scaling, and reinforces radio astronomy as a demanding yet ideal domain for advancing applied neuromorphic computing. |
| title | Neuromorphic Astronomy: An End-to-End SNN Pipeline for RFI Detection Hardware |
| topic | Neural and Evolutionary Computing Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.16060 |