Spikingformer is a pure event-driven transformer-based spiking neural network (75.85% top-1 accuracy on ImageNet-1K, + 1.04% and significantly reduces energy consumption by 57.34% compared with Spikformer). To our best knowledge, this is the first time that a pure event-driven transformer-based SNN has been developed in 2023/04.

[2025年11月8日] Accepted by AAAI 2026.

[2024年2月23日] Update energy_consumption_calculation of Spikingformer or Spikformer on ImageNet.

[2023年9月11日] Update origin_logs and cifar10 trained model.

[2023年8月18日] Update trained models.

If you find this repo useful, please consider citing:

@article{zhou2023spikingformer,
 title={Spikingformer: Spike-driven Residual Learning for Transformer-based Spiking Neural Network},
 author={Zhou, Chenlin and Yu, Liutao and Zhou, Zhaokun and Zhang, Han and Ma, Zhengyu and Zhou, Huihui and Tian, Yonghong},
 journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2304.11954},
 year={2023},
 url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.11954}
}
@article{zhou2024direct,
 title={Direct training high-performance deep spiking neural networks: a review of theories and methods},
 author={Zhou, Chenlin and Zhang, Han and Yu, Liutao and Ye, Yumin and Zhou, Zhaokun and Huang, Liwei and Ma, Zhengyu and Fan, Xiaopeng and Zhou, Huihui and Tian, Yonghong},
 journal={Frontiers in Neuroscience},
 volume={18},
 pages={1383844},
 year={2024},
 publisher={Frontiers Media SA}
}

All download passwords: abcd

All download passwords: abcd

timm==0.6.12; cupy==11.4.0; torch==1.12.1; spikingjelly==0.0.0.0.12; pyyaml;

data prepare: ImageNet with the following folder structure, you can extract imagenet by this script.

│imagenet/
├──train/
│ ├── n01440764
│ │ ├── n01440764_10026.JPEG
│ │ ├── n01440764_10027.JPEG
│ │ ├── ......
│ ├── ......
├──val/
│ ├── n01440764
│ │ ├── ILSVRC2012_val_00000293.JPEG
│ │ ├── ILSVRC2012_val_00002138.JPEG
│ │ ├── ......
│ ├── ......

Setting hyper-parameters in imagenet.yml

cd imagenet
python -m torch.distributed.launch --nproc_per_node=8 train.py

Download the trained model first here, passwords: abcd

cd imagenet
python test.py

Setting hyper-parameters in cifar10.yml

cd cifar10
python train.py

Setting hyper-parameters in cifar100.yml

cd cifar10
python train.py

cd dvs128-gesture
python train.py

cd cifar10-dvs
python train.py

Download the trained model first here, passwords: abcd

cd imagenet
python energy_consumption_calculation_on_imagenet.py

In neuromorphic datasets, the preprocessing (transforming events into frames) of neuromorphic datasets is according to SEW or SpikingJelly. The event stream comprises four dimensions: the event’s coordinate (x, y), time (t), and polarity (p). We split the event’s number N into T (the simulating time-step) slices with nearly the same number of events in each slice and integrate events into frames. It is a pity that Equation 20 in the manuscript is a formula mistake, we corrected it as follows: $$E_{Spikingformer}^{neuro}=E_{A C} \times\left(\sum_{i=2}^N S O P_{{Conv} }^i+\sum_{j=1}^M S O P_{{SSA}}^j\right)+E_{M A C} \times\left(FLOP_{{Conv}}^1\right)$$

Related project: spikformer, pytorch-image-models, CML, spikingjelly.

For help or issues using this git, please submit a GitHub issue.

For other communications related to this git, please contact zhouchl@pcl.ac.cn or zhouchenlin19@mails.ucas.ac.cn.