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New MSGAT model enhances image-text retrieval with energy-efficient SNNs

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Researchers have developed MSGAT, a novel Multi-head Spiking Graph Attention Network designed for energy-efficient image-text retrieval. This approach utilizes spiking neural networks (SNNs) to capture semantic structures and multi-granularity relationships, overcoming limitations of previous SNN methods that relied on local alignment. MSGAT incorporates a similarity-space fusion strategy called Sim-Fuse to integrate heterogeneous representations without direct fusion, leading to improved performance on Flickr30K and MSCOCO datasets. The SNN-based method achieves comparable or superior results to its artificial neural network (ANN) counterpart with significantly reduced energy consumption. AI

IMPACT This research could lead to more energy-efficient AI systems for multimodal tasks like image-text retrieval.

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  1. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Xintao Zong, Wenxuan Liu, Jianhao Ding, Zhaofei Yu, Tiejun Huang ·

    MSGAT: Multi-Head Spiking Graph Attention with Similarity-Space Fusion for Image-Text Retrieval

    arXiv:2610.11526v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Spiking neural networks (SNNs) offer an energy-efficient computing paradigm through sparse event-driven computation, showing great potential for efficient multimodal learning. However, applying SNNs to high-level multimodal tasks,…

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