and-fire (LIF) neurons, achieving state-of-the-art results for spiking LIF networks on five
datasets, including the large ImageNet ILSVRC-2012 benchmark. Our method for
transforming deep artificial neural networks into spiking networks is scalable and works with
a wide range of neural nonlinearities. We achieve these results by softening the neural
response function, such that its derivative remains bounded, and by training the network with …