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1B Pure SNN Scales from Scratch

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πŸ’‘1B SNN LM converges from scratch w/ 93% sparsity – code + checkpoint free!

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What Changed

93% sparsity, 7% neurons fire per token

Why It Matters

Demonstrates viability of massive SNNs from scratch, unlocking energy-efficient neuromorphic inference for language tasks.

What To Do Next

Download the 12GB SNN checkpoint from GitHub to experiment with sparsity.

Who should care:Researchers & Academics

Key Points

  • β€’93% sparsity, 7% neurons fire per token
  • β€’Cross-lingual Russian text emergence at 25k steps
  • β€’39% activation routing to memory at 1B scale
  • β€’Pure spike-domain training, no ANN conversion
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