Zhe Ma

Yufei Guo, Liwen Zhang, Yuanpei Chen et al.

Brain-inspired spiking neural networks (SNNs) have recently drawn more and more attention due to their event-driven and energy-efficient characteristics. The integration of storage and computation paradigm on neuromorphic hardwares makes SNNs much different from Deep Neural Networks (DNNs). In this paper, we argue that SNNs may not benefit from the weight-sharing mechanism, which can effectively reduce parameters and improve inference efficiency in DNNs, in some hardwares, and assume that an SNN with unshared convolution kernels could perform better. Motivated by this assumption, a training-inference decoupling method for SNNs named as Real Spike is proposed, which not only enjoys both unshared convolution kernels and binary spikes in inference-time but also maintains both shared convolution kernels and Real-valued Spikes during training. This decoupling mechanism of SNN is realized by a re-parameterization technique. Furthermore, based on the training-inference-decoupled idea, a series of different forms for implementing Real Spike on different levels are presented, which also enjoy shared convolutions in the inference and are friendly to both neuromorphic and non-neuromorphic hardware platforms. A theoretical proof is given to clarify that the Real Spike-based SNN network is superior to its vanilla counterpart. Experimental results show that all different Real Spike versions can consistently improve the SNN performance. Moreover, the proposed method outperforms the state-of-the-art models on both non-spiking static and neuromorphic datasets.

Jiahao Chen, junhao li, Yiming Wang et al.

The proliferation of Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) models has democratized personalized text-to-image generation, enabling users to share lightweight models (e.g., personal portraits) on platforms like Civitai and Liblib. However, this "share-and-play" ecosystem introduces critical risks: benign LoRAs can be weaponized by adversaries to generate harmful content (e.g., political, defamatory imagery), undermining creator rights and platform safety. Existing defenses like concept-erasure methods focus on full diffusion models (DMs), neglecting LoRA's unique role as a modular adapter and its vulnerability to adversarial prompt engineering. To bridge this gap, we propose LoRAShield, the first data-free editing framework for securing LoRA models against misuse. Our platform-driven approach dynamically edits and realigns LoRA's weight subspace via adversarial optimization and semantic augmentation. Experimental results demonstrate that LoRAShield achieves remarkable effectiveness, efficiency, and robustness in blocking malicious generations without sacrificing the functionality of the benign task. By shifting the defense to platforms, LoRAShield enables secure, scalable sharing of personalized models, a critical step toward trustworthy generative ecosystems.

Yufei Guo, Xuhui Huang, Zhe Ma

The spiking neural network (SNN), as a promising brain-inspired computational model with binary spike information transmission mechanism, rich spatially-temporal dynamics, and event-driven characteristics, has received extensive attention. However, its intricately discontinuous spike mechanism brings difficulty to the optimization of the deep SNN. Since the surrogate gradient method can greatly mitigate the optimization difficulty and shows great potential in directly training deep SNNs, a variety of direct learning-based deep SNN works have been proposed and achieved satisfying progress in recent years. In this paper, we present a comprehensive survey of these direct learning-based deep SNN works, mainly categorized into accuracy improvement methods, efficiency improvement methods, and temporal dynamics utilization methods. In addition, we also divide these categorizations into finer granularities further to better organize and introduce them. Finally, the challenges and trends that may be faced in future research are prospected.

Yufei Guo, Weihang Peng, Yuanpei Chen et al.

Emerged as a biology-inspired method, Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) mimic the spiking nature of brain neurons and have received lots of research attention. SNNs deal with binary spikes as their activation and therefore derive extreme energy efficiency on hardware. However, it also leads to an intrinsic obstacle that training SNNs from scratch requires a re-definition of the firing function for computing gradient. Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs), however, are fully differentiable to be trained with gradient descent. In this paper, we propose a joint training framework of ANN and SNN, in which the ANN can guide the SNN's optimization. This joint framework contains two parts: First, the knowledge inside ANN is distilled to SNN by using multiple branches from the networks. Second, we restrict the parameters of ANN and SNN, where they share partial parameters and learn different singular weights. Extensive experiments over several widely used network structures show that our method consistently outperforms many other state-of-the-art training methods. For example, on the CIFAR100 classification task, the spiking ResNet-18 model trained by our method can reach to 77.39% top-1 accuracy with only 4 time steps.