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The Sparsity Ceiling: Where Spiking Networks Can and Cannot Trade Activity for Energy
arXiv:2607.26648v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Spiking neural networks (SNNs) are promoted as an energy-efficient substrate because sparse, event-driven activity replaces dense multiply-accumulates with cheap accumulates. We argue the energy dividend of sparsity is not a property of SNNs but of the task. Holding archi