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SPACE: SPike-Aware Consistency Enhancement for Test-Time Adaptation in Spiking Neural Networks

SPACE: SPike-Aware Consistency Enhancement for Test-Time Adaptation in Spiking Neural Networks

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英文摘要

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs), as a biologically plausible alternative to Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs), have demonstrated advantages in terms of energy efficiency, temporal processing, and biological plausibility. However, SNNs are highly sensitive to distribution shifts, which can significantly degrade their performance in real-world scenarios. Traditional test-time adaptation (TTA) methods designed for ANNs often fail to address the unique computational dynamics of SNNs, such as sparsity and temporal spiking behavior. To address these challenges, we propose $\textbf{SP}$ike-$\textbf{A}$ware $\textbf{C}$onsistency $\textbf{E}$nhancement (SPACE), the first source-free and single-instance TTA method specifically designed for SNNs. SPACE leverages the inherent spike dynamics of SNNs to maximize the consistency of spike-behavior-based local feature maps across augmented versions of a single test sample, enabling robust adaptation without requiring source data. We evaluate SPACE on multiple datasets, including CIFAR-10-C, CIFAR-100-C, Tiny-ImageNet-C and DVS Gesture-C. Furthermore, SPACE demonstrates strong generalization across different model architectures, achieving consistent performance improvements on both VGG9 and ResNet11. Experimental results show that SPACE outperforms state-of-the-art methods, highlighting its effectiveness and robustness in real-world settings.

Xinyu Luo、Kecheng Chen、Pao-Sheng Vincent Sun、Chris Xing Tian、Arindam Basu、Haoliang Li

计算技术、计算机技术

Xinyu Luo,Kecheng Chen,Pao-Sheng Vincent Sun,Chris Xing Tian,Arindam Basu,Haoliang Li.SPACE: SPike-Aware Consistency Enhancement for Test-Time Adaptation in Spiking Neural Networks[EB/OL].(2025-04-03)[2025-05-04].https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.02298.点此复制

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