Benchmarking Fairness in Spiking Neural Networks: Data Bias, Spurious Features, and Hardware Effects
Evaluating fairness in Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) demands rigorous benchmarks that reflect real-world complexities, yet existing assessments remain limited by superficial dataset diversity and idealized hardware assumptions. This work introduces the first systematic fairness benchmark for SNNs, addressing three critical dimensions of realism: (1) demographic coverage gaps in training data, (2) spurious feature leakage (e.g., skin tone as a proxy for class labels), and (3) deployment-environment mismatches (e.g., edge devices with constrained spike encoding). Our framework integrates four cross-demographic datasets with controlled bias injections and three neuromorphic hardware simulat...
| Authors | Hudi He, Fukun Wang, Zhe Wang et al. |
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| Primary category | cs.NE |
| Published | 8 May 2026 |
| Last updated at source | 8 May 2026 |
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