Enhancing Spiking Transformers with Binary Attention Mechanisms

Summary:

This paper revisits attention in Spiking Transformers and proposes a binary attention mechanism to make attention computation more spike-friendly. The method reduces computational overhead and promotes sparsity while maintaining competitive performance on both image and neuromorphic benchmarks.

Bibtex:

@inproceedings{shen2024binaryattention,
  title={Enhancing Spiking Transformers with Binary Attention Mechanisms},
  author={Guobin Shen and Dongcheng Zhao and Sicheng Shen and Yi Zeng},
  booktitle={The Second Tiny Papers Track at ICLR 2024},
  year={2024},
  url={https://openreview.net/forum?id=6X3TNqLb5t}
}