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Applications · Robotics

Tengjun Ni, Xin Yuan, Shenghong Li, Kai Wu, Ren Liu, Wei Ni, Wenjie Zhang

Robotic systems can require multimodal reasoning under stringent constraints of latency, memory, and energy. Standard instruction tuning and token-level distillation fail to deliver decision quality, reliability, and interpretability under these constraints. We introduce BOLT, a decision-aligned distillation and budget-aware routing framework that treats multi-choice prediction as a decision surface to be aligned during training and selectively refined at inference. During training, BOLT introduces Option-level Decision Distillation to align student models directly on the decision surface of multi-choice answers, thereby eliminating prompt artifacts, improving calibration, and optimizing the exact output space. At inference, BOLT activates Budget-aware Test-time Augmentation, a calibrated router that uses low-cost signals such as confidence, margin, entropy, retrieval affinity, and agreement across short question decompositions to trigger high-resolution reevaluation, type-matched retrieval exemplars, or question decomposition only when their expected benefit outweighs cost. On Robo2VLM-1, a 2B BOLT student distilled from LLaVA-1.5-13B improves accuracy from 28.66 in zero-shot to 42.89 with decision distillation and to 50.50 with budgeted routing, surpassing the 13B teacher at 36.74. It lowers expected calibration error, strengthens the risk-coverage frontier, and slashes GPU memory from 26,878 MB for the teacher to 3,035 MB for the distilled student, and 3,817 MB with all augmentations enabled. By constraining outputs to valid options while exposing retrieved evidence and decomposition traces, BOLT reduces hallucination and provides transparent decision-making, enabling large-model quality on edge robots.

Deep Learning · Generative Models and Autoencoders

Jiayang Shi, Daniel Pelt, Joost Batenburg

Diffusion models have recently emerged as powerful priors for solving inverse problems. While Computed Tomography (CT) is theoretically a linear inverse problem, it poses many practical challenges. These include correlated noise, artifact structures, reliance on system geometry, and misaligned value ranges, which make the direct application of diffusion models more difficult than in domains like natural image generation. To systematically evaluate how diffusion models perform in this context and compare them with established reconstruction methods, we introduce DM4CT, a comprehensive benchmark for CT reconstruction. DM4CT includes datasets from both medical and industrial domains with sparse-view and noisy configurations. To explore the challenges of deploying diffusion models in practice, we additionally acquire a high-resolution CT dataset at a high-energy synchrotron facility and evaluate all methods under real experimental conditions. We benchmark nine recent diffusion-based methods alongside seven strong baselines, including model-based, unsupervised, and supervised approaches. Our analysis provides detailed insights into the behavior, strengths, and limitations of diffusion models for CT reconstruction. The real-world dataset is publicly available at zenodo.org/records/15420527, and the codebase is open-sourced at github.com/DM4CT/DM4CT.

Applications · Neuroscience, Cognitive Science

Yuan Hua, Jilin Zhang, Yingtao Zhang, Leyi You, Baobo Xiong, Carlo Vittorio Cannistraci, Hong Chen

Inspired by the brain's spike-based computation, spiking neural networks (SNNs) inherently possess temporal activation sparsity. However, when it comes to the sparse training of SNNs in the structural connection domain, existing methods fail to achieve ultra-sparse network structures without significant performance loss, thereby hindering progress in energy-efficient neuromorphic computing. This limitation presents a critical challenge: how to achieve high levels of structural connection sparsity while maintaining performance comparable to fully connected networks. To address this challenge, we propose the Cannistraci-Hebb Spiking Neural Network (CH-SNN), a novel and generalizable dynamic sparse training framework for SNNs consisting of four stages. First, we propose a sparse spike correlated topological initialization (SSCTI) method to initialize a sparse network based on node correlations. Second, temporal activation sparsity and structural connection sparsity are integrated via a proposed sparse spike weight initialization (SSWI) method. Third, a hybrid link removal score (LRS) is applied to prune redundant weights and inactive neurons, improving information flow. Finally, the CH3-L3 network automaton framework inspired by Cannistraci-Hebb learning theory is incorporated to perform link prediction for potential synaptic regrowth. These mechanisms enable CH-SNN to achieve sparsification across all linear layers. We have conducted extensive experiments on six datasets including CIFAR-10 and CIFAR-100, evaluating various network architectures such as spiking convolutional neural networks and Spikformer. The proposed method achieves a maximum sparsity of 97.75% and outperforms the fully connected (FC) network by 0.16% in accuracy. Furthermore, we apply CH-SNN within an SNN training algorithm deployed on an edge neuromorphic processor. The experimental results demonstrate that, compared to the FC baseline without CH-SNN, the sparse CH-SNN architecture achieves up to 98.84% sparsity, an accuracy improvement of 2.27%, and a 97.5$\times$ reduction in synaptic operations, and the energy consumption is reduced by an average of 55$\times$ across four datasets. Our code is available at https://github.com/HuaGuaiGuai/CH-SNN.

Deep Learning · Algorithms

Ningfeng Yang, Tor Aamodt

Quantization-Aware Pre-Training (QAPT) is an effective technique to reduce the compute and memory overhead of Deep Neural Networks while improving their energy efficiency on edge devices. Existing QAPT methods produce models stored in compute-efficient data types (e.g. integers) that are not information theoretically optimal (ITO). On the other hand, existing ITO data types (e.g. Quantile/NormalFloat Quantization) are not compute-efficient. We propose BBQ, the first ITO quantization method that is also compute-efficient. BBQ builds on our key insight that since learning is domain-agnostic, the output of a quantizer does not need to reside in the same domain as its input. BBQ performs ITO quantization in its input domain, and returns its output in a compute-efficient domain where ITO data types are mapped to compute-efficient data types. Without sacrificing compute efficiency, BBQ outperforms prior SOTA QAPT methods by a perplexity reduction of up to 2 points for 4-bit models, up to 4 points for 3-bit models, up to 5 points for 2-bit models, and up to 18 points for 1-bit models. Code is available at https://github.com/1733116199/bbq.

Deep Learning · Graph Neural Networks

Weilin Xin, Chenyu Huang, Peilin Li, Jing Zhong, Jiawei Yao

With rapid urbanization, predicting urban microclimates has become critical, as it affects building energy demand and public health risks. However, existing generative and homogeneous graph approaches fall short in capturing physical consistency, spatial dependencies, and temporal variability. \revise{To address this, we introduce UrbanGraph, a framework founded on a novel structure-based inductive bias. Unlike implicit graph learning, UrbanGraph transforms physical first principles into a dynamic causal topology, explicitly encoding time-varying causalities (e.g., shading and convection) directly into the graph structure to ensure physical consistency and data efficiency. Results show that UrbanGraph achieves state-of-the-art performance across all baselines. Specifically, the use of explicit causal pruning significantly reduces the model's floating-point operations (FLOPs) by 73.8\% and increases training speed by 21\% compared to implicit graphs. Our contribution includes the first high-resolution benchmark for spatio-temporal microclimate modeling, and a generalizable explicit topological encoding paradigm applicable to urban spatio-temporal dynamics governed by known physical equations.

Applications · Physics

Tianrun Gao, Haoren Zheng, Wenhao Deng, Haodong Feng, Tao Zhang, Ruiqi Feng, Qianyi Chen, Tailin Wu

Real-world physical systems are inherently complex, often involving the coupling of multiple physics, making their simulation both highly valuable and challenging. Many mainstream approaches face challenges when dealing with decoupled data. Besides, they also suffer from low efficiency and fidelity in strongly coupled spatio-temporal physical systems. Here we propose GenCP, a novel and elegant generative paradigm for coupled multiphysics simulation. By formulating coupled-physics modeling as a probability modeling problem, our key innovation is to integrate probability density evolution in generative modeling with iterative multiphysics coupling, thereby enabling training on data from decoupled simulation and inferring coupled physics during sampling. We also utilize operator-splitting theory in the space of probability evolution to establish error controllability guarantees for this “conditional-to-joint” sampling scheme. We evaluate our paradigm on a synthetic setting and three challenging multiphysics scenarios to demonstrate both principled insight and superior application performance of GenCP. Code is available at this repo: https://github.com/AI4Science-WestlakeU/GenCP.

Social Aspects · Fairness, Equity, Justice and Safety

Jiyuan Fu, Kaixun Jiang, Lingyi Hong, Jinglun Li, HaiJing Guo, Dingkang Yang, Zhaoyu Chen, Wenqiang Zhang

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have shown great promise but require substantial computational resources during inference. Attackers can exploit this by inducing excessive output, leading to resource exhaustion and service degradation. Prior energy-latency attacks aim to increase generation time by broadly shifting the output token distribution away from the EOS token, but they neglect the influence of token-level Part-of-Speech (POS) characteristics on EOS and sentence-level structural patterns on output counts, limiting their efficacy. To address this, we propose \textbf{LingoLoop}, an attack designed to induce MLLMs to generate excessively verbose and repetitive sequences. First, we find that the POS tag of a token strongly affects the likelihood of generating an EOS token. Based on this insight, we propose a \textbf{POS-Aware Delay Mechanism} to postpone EOS token generation by adjusting attention weights guided by POS information. Second, we identify that constraining output diversity to induce repetitive loops is effective for sustained generation. We introduce a \textbf{Generative Path Pruning Mechanism} that limits the magnitude of hidden states, encouraging the model to produce persistent loops. Extensive experiments on models like Qwen2.5-VL-3B demonstrate LingoLoop's powerful ability to trap them in generative loops; it consistently drives them to their generation limits and, when those limits are relaxed, can induce outputs with up to \textbf{367$\times$} more tokens than clean inputs, triggering a commensurate surge in energy consumption. These findings expose significant MLLMs' vulnerabilities, posing challenges for their reliable deployment.

Applications · Neuroscience, Cognitive Science

Zhanglu Yan, Jiayi Mao, Qianhui Liu, Fanfan Li, Tao Luo, Gang Pan, Bowen Zhu, Weng-Fai Wong

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) promise high energy efficiency, particularly with time-to-first-spike (TTFS) encoding, which maximizes sparsity by emitting at most one spike per neuron. However, this energy advantage is often unrealized because inference requires evaluating a temporal decay function and then multiplying the result by the synaptic weights. This paper challenges this costly approach by repurposing a physical hardware `bug', namely, the natural signal decay in optoelectronic devices, as the core computation of TTFS. We fabricated a custom indium oxide optoelectronic synapse that demonstrates how its intrinsic physical decay directly implements the required temporal function. By treating the device's analog output as the fused product of the synaptic weight and temporal decay, optoelectronic synaptic TTFS (named Otters) eliminates these expensive digital operations. To use the Otters' paradigm in complex architectures such as the transformer, which are challenging to train directly due to sparsity, we introduce a novel quantized neural network-to-SNN conversion algorithm. This complete hardware-software co-design enables our model to achieve state-of-the-art accuracy across seven GLUE benchmark datasets and demonstrates a 1.77$\times$ improvement in energy efficiency over previous leading SNNs, based on a comprehensive analysis of compute, data movement, and memory access costs using energy measurements from a commercial 22nm process. Our work thus establishes a new paradigm for energy-efficient SNNs that translates fundamental device physics directly into powerful computational primitives. All codes and data are open source.

Optimization · Large Scale, Parallel and Distributed

Muqing Liu, Chongjie Si, Yuheng Jia

Large pre-trained models achieve remarkable success across diverse domains, yet fully fine-tuning incurs prohibitive computational and memory costs. Parameter-efficient fine-tuning (PEFT) has thus become a mainstream paradigm. Among them, Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) introduces trainable low-rank matrices and shows strong performance, nevertheless, its fixed-rank design limits flexibility. Dynamic rank allocation methods mitigate this issue by pruning redundant directions; however, they often rely on heuristic, element-level metrics that globally sort rank directions without matrix-wise distinction, and they lack mechanisms to expand capacity in layers requiring additional adaptation. To overcome these limitations, we propose FlexLoRA, an entropy-guided flexible low-rank adaptation framework that (i) evaluates matrix importance via spectral energy entropy, (ii) supports rank pruning and expansion under a global budget, and (iii) employs zero-impact initialization for newly added singular directions to ensure stability. By addressing granularity, flexibility, and stability limitations, FlexLoRA provides a more principled solution for PEFT. Extensive experiments show that FlexLoRA consistently outperforms state-of-the-art baselines across benchmarks.

Deep Learning · Robustness

Desong Zhang, Jia Hu, Geyong Min

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) have emerged as an efficient neuromorphic computing paradigm, offering low energy consumption and strong representational capacity through binary spike-based information processing. However, their performance is heavily shaped by the input encoding method. While direct encoding has gained traction for its efficiency and accuracy, it proves less robust than traditional rate encoding. To illuminate this issue, we introduce Gradient Temporal Collinearity (GTC), a principled measure that quantifies the directional alignment of gradient components across time steps, and we show—both empirically and theoretically—that elevated GTC in direct encoding undermines robustness. Guided by this insight, we propose Structured Temporal Orthogonal Decorrelation (STOD), which integrates parametric orthogonal kernels with structured constraints into the input layer of direct encoding to diversify temporal features and effectively reduce GTC. Extensive experiments on visual classification benchmarks, show that STOD consistently outperforms state-of-the-art methods in robustness, highlighting its potential to drive SNNs toward safer and more reliable deployment.

Applications · Physics

Ege Demirci, Francesco Bullo, Ananthram Swami, Ambuj K Singh

Recovering missing flows on the edges of a network, while exactly respecting local conservation laws, is a fundamental inverse problem that arises in many systems such as transportation, energy, and mobility. We introduce FlowSymm, a novel architecture that combines (i) a group-action on divergence-free flows, (ii) a graph-attention encoder to learn feature-conditioned weights over these symmetry-preserving actions, and (iii) a lightweight Tikhonov refinement solved via implicit bilevel optimization. The method first anchors the given observation on a minimum-norm divergence-free completion. We then compute an orthonormal basis for all admissible group actions that leave the observed flows invariant and parameterize the valid solution subspace, which shows an Abelian group structure under vector addition. A stack of GATv2 layers then encodes the graph and its edge features into per-edge embeddings, which are pooled over the missing edges and produce per-basis attention weights. This attention-guided process selects a set of physics-aware group actions that preserve the observed flows. Finally, a scalar Tikhonov penalty refines the missing entries via a convex least-squares solver, with gradients propagated implicitly through Cholesky factorization. Across three real-world flow benchmarks (traffic, power, bike), FlowSymm substantially outperforms state-of-the-art baselines in RMSE, MAE and correlation metrics.

General Machine Learning · Probabilistic Methods

Wenbin Zhou, Agni Orfanoudaki, Shixiang Zhu

High-stakes decisions in healthcare, energy, and public policy have long depended on human expertise and heuristics, but are now increasingly supported by predictive and optimization-based tools. A prevailing paradigm in operations research is predict-then-optimize, where predictive models estimate uncertain inputs and optimization models recommend decisions. However, such approaches often sideline human judgment, creating a disconnect between algorithmic outputs and expert intuition that undermines trust and adoption in practice. To bridge this gap, we propose CREDO, a framework that, for any candidate decision proposed by human experts, provides a distribution-free upper bound on the probability of suboptimality---informed by both the optimization structure and the data distribution. By combining inverse optimization geometry with conformal generative prediction, CREDO delivers statistically rigorous yet practically interpretable risk certificates. This framework allows human decision-makers to audit and validate their decisions under uncertainty, strengthening the alignment between algorithmic tools and human intuition.

Computer Vision · Image and Video Generation

Feihong Yan, Yao Zhu, Peiru Wang, kaiyu pang, Qingyan Wei, Huiqi Li, Linfeng Zhang

Masked Autoregressive (MAR) models promise better efficiency in visual generation than continuous autoregressive (AR) models for the ability of parallel generation, yet their acceleration potential remains constrained by the modeling complexity of spatially correlated visual tokens in a single step. To address this limitation, we introduce Generation then Reconstruction (GtR), a training-free hierarchical sampling strategy that decomposes generation into two stages: structure generation establishing global semantic scaffolding, followed by detail reconstruction efficiently completing remaining tokens. Assuming that it is more difficult to create an image from scratch than to complement images based on a basic image framework, GtR is designed to achieve acceleration by computing the reconstruction stage quickly while maintaining the generation quality by computing the generation stage slowly. Moreover, observing that tokens on the details of an image often carry more semantic information than tokens in the salient regions, we further propose Frequency-Weighted Token Selection (FTS) to offer more computation budget to tokens on image details, which are localized based on the energy of high frequency information. Extensive experiments on ImageNet class-conditional and text-to-image generation demonstrate 3.72X speedup on MAR-H while maintaining comparable quality (e.g., FID: 1.59, IS: 304.4 vs. original 1.59, 299.1), substantially outperforming existing acceleration methods across various model scales and generation tasks. Our codes will be released in https://github.com/feihongyan1/GtR.

Deep Learning · Attention Mechanisms

Jiecheng Lu, Shihao Yang

Standard attention stores keys/values losslessly but reads them via a per-head convex average, blocking channel-wise selection. We propose the Free Energy Mixer (FEM): a free-energy (log-sum-exp) read that applies a value-driven, per-channel log-linear tilt to a fast prior (e.g., from queries/keys in standard attention) over indices. Unlike methods that attempt to improve and enrich the $(q,k)$ scoring distribution, FEM treats it as a prior and yields a value-aware posterior read at unchanged complexity, smoothly moving from averaging to per-channel selection as the learnable inverse temperature increases, while still preserving parallelism and the original asymptotic complexity ($O(T^2)$ for softmax; $O(T)$ for linearizable variants). We instantiate a two-level gated FEM that is plug-and-play with standard and linear attention, linear RNNs and SSMs. It consistently outperforms strong baselines on NLP, vision, and time-series at matched parameter budgets.

Kaicheng Zhang, Piero Deidda, Desmond Higham, Francesco Tudisco

Oversmoothing is a fundamental challenge in graph neural networks (GNNs): as the number of layers increases, node embeddings become increasingly similar, and model performance drops sharply. Traditionally, oversmoothing has been quantified using metrics that measure the similarity of neighbouring node features, such as the Dirichlet energy. We argue that these metrics have critical limitations and fail to reliably capture oversmoothing in realistic scenarios. For instance, they provide meaningful insights only for very deep networks, while typical GNNs show a performance drop already with as few as 10 layers. As an alternative, we propose measuring oversmoothing by examining the numerical or effective rank of the feature representations. We provide extensive numerical evaluation across diverse graph architectures and datasets to show that rank-based metrics consistently capture oversmoothing, whereas energy-based metrics often fail. Notably, we reveal that drops in the rank align closely with performance degradation, even in scenarios where energy metrics remain unchanged. Along with the experimental evaluation, we provide theoretical support for this approach, clarifying why Dirichlet-like measures may fail to capture performance drop and proving that the numerical rank of feature representations collapses to one for a broad family of GNN architectures.

Applications · Neuroscience, Cognitive Science

Yijie Lu, Xinhao Luo, Yixing Zhang, Zhiyan Wang, Wentao Li, Yanhan Wang, Zhi Liu, Zhaokun Zhou, Guoqi Li

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) offer a promising, energy-efficient paradigm for computation, but their practical application is hindered by challenges in architecture design and training costs. For example, Spiking ResNet exhibits relatively low performance, whereas high-performance Spiking Transformers are not truly event driven and cannot be implemented on asynchronous chips. Moreover, the intrinsic time steps and neuron state dynamics result in a substantial computational overhead for training SNNs on GPUs. In response to these problems, we discuss rational architectural design for SNNs and argue that such designs should exhibit three key characteristics: operations fully supported by asynchronous scenarios, low training overhead and competitive performance. In light of this, we adopt the event-driven friendly Spiking Mixer (SMixer) as the foundational architecture and develop a spike feature Spatial-Temporal Pruning (STP) framework with a high pruning ratio and no trainable parameters to reduce the training overhead. Based on a statistical analysis of sparse spike features, STP eliminates redundant spike features across both spatial and temporal dimensions, thereby reducing the input features and computational load during training. It adaptively selects the most salient spike tokens spatially and dynamically constrains neuron firing rates temporally. By leveraging STP and architectural adaptation, SMixer accelerates training while ensuring a fully event-driven characteristics and maintaining competitive performance, offering valuable insights for the design of efficient, event-driven SNNs.

Applications · Language, Speech and Dialog

Zengwei Yao, Wei Kang, Han Zhu, Liyong Guo, Lingxuan Ye, Fangjun Kuang, Weiji Zhuang, Zhaoqing Li, Zhifeng Han, Long Lin 等

Existing dominant methods for audio generation include Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) and diffusion-based methods like Flow Matching. GANs suffer from slow convergence during training, while diffusion methods require multi-step inference that introduces considerable computational overhead. In this work, we introduce Flow2GAN, a two-stage framework that combines Flow Matching training for learning generative capabilities with GAN fine-tuning for efficient few-step inference. Specifically, given audio's unique properties, we first improve Flow Matching for audio modeling through: 1) reformulating the objective as endpoint estimation, avoiding velocity estimation difficulties when involving empty regions; 2) applying spectral energy-based loss scaling to emphasize perceptually salient quieter regions. Building on these Flow Matching adaptations, we demonstrate that a further stage of lightweight GAN fine-tuning enables us to obtain few-step (e.g., 1/2/4 steps) generators that produce high-quality audio. In addition, we develop a multi-branch network architecture that processes Fourier coefficients at different time-frequency resolutions, which improves the modeling capabilities compared to prior single-resolution designs. Experimental results indicate that our Flow2GAN delivers high-fidelity audio generation from Mel-spectrograms or discrete audio tokens, achieving highly favorable quality-efficiency trade-offs compared to existing state-of-the-art GAN-based and Flow Matching-based methods. Online demo samples are available at \url{https://flow2gan.github.io}, and the source code is released at \url{https://github.com/k2-fsa/Flow2GAN}.

Deep Learning · Generative Models and Autoencoders

Andrea Testa, Søren Hauberg, Tamim Asfour, Leonel Rozo

The Schrödinger Bridge provides a principled framework for modeling stochastic processes between distributions; however, existing methods are limited by energy-conservation assumptions, which constrains the bridge's shape preventing it from model varying-energy phenomena. To overcome this, we introduce the non-conservative generalized Schrödinger bridge (NCGSB), a novel, energy-varying reformulation based on contact Hamiltonian mechanics. By allowing energy to change over time, the NCGSB provides a broader class of real-world stochastic processes, capturing richer and more faithful intermediate dynamics. By parameterizing the Wasserstein manifold, we lift the bridge problem to a tractable geodesic computation in a finite-dimensional space. Unlike computationally expensive iterative solutions, our contact Wasserstein geodesic (CWG) is naturally implemented via a ResNet architecture and relies on a non-iterative solver with near-linear complexity. Furthermore, CWG supports guided generation by modulating a task-specific distance metric. We validate our framework on tasks including manifold navigation, molecular dynamics predictions, and image generation, demonstrating its practical benefits and versatility.

Reinforcement Learning · Online

Hao Liang, Jiayu Cheng, Sean Sinclair, Yali Du

Exogenous MDPs (Exo-MDPs) capture sequential decision-making where uncertainty comes solely from exogenous inputs that evolve independently of the learner’s actions. This structure is especially common in operations research applications such as inventory control, energy storage, and resource allocation, where exogenous randomness (e.g., demand, arrivals, or prices) drives system behavior. Despite decades of empirical evidence that greedy, exploitation-only methods work remarkably well in these settings, theory has lagged behind: all existing regret guarantees for Exo-MDPs rely on explicit exploration or tabular assumptions. We show that exploration is unnecessary. We propose Pure Exploitation Learning ($\texttt{PEL}$) and prove the first general finite-sample regret bounds for exploitation-only algorithms in Exo-MDPs. In the tabular case, PEL achieves $\widetilde{O}(H^2|\Xi|\sqrt{K})$. For large, continuous endogenous state spaces, we introduce $\texttt{LSVI-PE}$, a simple linear-approximation method whose regret is polynomial in the feature dimension, exogenous state space, and horizon, independent of the endogenous state and action spaces. Our analysis introduces two new tools: counterfactual trajectories and Bellman-closed feature transport, which together allow greedy policies to have accurate value estimates without optimism. Experiments on synthetic and resource-management tasks show $\texttt{PEL}$ consistently outperforming baselines. Overall, our results overturn the conventional wisdom that exploration is required, demonstrating that in Exo-MDPs, pure exploitation is enough.

Applications · Neuroscience, Cognitive Science

Yuqi Yang, Tengjun Liu, Haiyan Zhang, Wang Ruixue, Xuchao Chen, Mingkang Li, Yansong Chua, Nenggan Zheng, Shaomin Zhang

The emergence of large-scale neural activity datasets provides new opportunities to enhance the generalization of neural decoding models. However, it remains a practical challenge to design neural decoders for fully implantable brain-machine interfaces (iBMIs) that achieve high accuracy, strong generalization, and low computational cost, which are essential for reliable, long-term deployment under strict power and hardware constraints. To address this, we propose the Re-parametrized self-Attention Spiking Neural Network (RAT SNN) with a cross-condition pretraining framework to integrate neural variability and adapt to stringent computational constraints. Specifically, our approach introduces multi-timescale dynamic spiking neurons to capture the complex temporal variability of neural activity. We refine spike-driven attention within a lightweight, re-parameterized architecture that enables accumulate-only operations between spiking neurons without sacrificing decoding accuracy. Furthermore, we develop a stepwise training pipeline to systematically integrate neural variability across conditions, including neural temporal drift, subjects and tasks. Building on these advances, we construct a pretrained model capable of rapid generalization to unseen conditions with high performance. We demonstrate that RAT SNN consistently outperforms leading SNN baselines and matches the accuracy of state-of-the-art artificial neural network (ANN) models with much lower computational cost under both seen and unseen conditions across various datasets. Collectively, pretrained-RAT SNN represents a high-performance, highly generalizable, and energy-efficient prototype of an SNN foundation model for fully iBMI. Code is available at [RAT SNN GitHub](https://github.com/YangYangYangYuqi/RAT-SNN).