arXiv:2608.13952v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) serve as core architectures for neuromorphic computing thanks to event-driven operation and ultra-low power consumption. Direct SNN training is hindered by non-differentiable spikes that induce vanishing gradients and unstable optimization. ANN-SNN conversion circumvents such issues by reusing well-trained ANN weights for low-latency, energy-efficient inference. Nevertheless, existing conversion schemes suffer from severe accuracy drops at small timesteps, large inference delays and cumulative quantization errors, even with marginal performance loss at large $T$. To address these limitations, we first analyze flaws of conventional conversion pipelines from residual membrane potential statistics and propose a novel conversion strategy combining dynamic initial potential tuning and feature enhancement. We then introduce a regularization loss $\mathcal{L}_{\mathrm{RMPD}}$ to adapt initial potential of IF neuron...
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