Abstract
Recently, spiking neural networks (SNNs) have been widely studied by researchers due to their biological interpretability and potential application of low power consumption. However, the traditional clock-driven simulators have the problem that the accuracy is limited by the time-step and the lateral inhibition failure. To address this issue, we introduce EvtSNN (Event SNN), a faster SNN event-driven simulator inspired by EDHA (Event-Driven High Accuracy). Two innovations are proposed to accelerate the calculation of event-driven neurons. Firstly, the intermediate results can be reused in population computing without repeated calculations. Secondly, unnecessary peak calculations will be skipped according to a condition. In the MNIST classification task, EvtSNN took 56 s to complete one epoch of unsupervised training and achieved 89.56% accuracy, while EDHA takes 642 s. In the benchmark experiments, the simulation speed of EvtSNN is 2.9–14.0 times that of EDHA under different network scales.
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