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Traditional machine learning models, particularly neural networks, are rooted in finite-dimensional parameter spaces and nonlinear function approximations. This report explores an alternative formulation where learning tasks are expressed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Andrew Kiruluta , Andreas Lemos , Priscilla Burity

In classical frameworks as the Euclidean space, positive definite kernels as well as their analytic properties are explicitly available and can be incorporated directly in kernel-based learning algorithms. This is different if the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-01-18 Wolfgang Erb

In recent years, Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) have gathered significant interest due to their temporal understanding capabilities. This work introduces, to the best of our knowledge, the first Cortical Column like hybrid architecture for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Aaron Bateni

We investigate a recently proposed family of positive-definite kernels that mimic the computation in large neural networks. We examine the properties of these kernels using tools from differential geometry; specifically, we analyze the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2011-12-19 Youngmin Cho , Lawrence K. Saul

Motivated by applications, we introduce a general and new framework for operator valued positive definite kernels. We further give applications both to operator theory and to stochastic processes. The first one yields several dilation…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2024-07-31 Palle E. T. Jorgensen , James Tian

Providing the neurobiological basis of information processing in higher animals, spiking neural networks must be able to learn a variety of complicated computations, including the generation of appropriate, possibly delayed reactions to…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2016-06-30 Dominik Thalmeier , Marvin Uhlmann , Hilbert J. Kappen , Raoul-Martin Memmesheimer

Nowadays, neural networks act as a synonym for artificial intelligence. Present neural network models, although remarkably powerful, are inefficient both in terms of data and energy. Several alternative forms of neural networks have been…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Mario Franco , Carlos Gershenson

Kernel methods are considered an effective technique for on-line learning. Many approaches have been developed for compactly representing the dual solution of a kernel method when the problem imposes memory constraints. However, in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-07-21 Giovanni Da San Martino , Nicolò Navarin , Alessandro Sperduti

For energy-efficient computation in specialized neuromorphic hardware, we present spiking neural coding, an instantiation of a family of artificial neural models grounded in the theory of predictive coding. This model, the first of its…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-08-09 Alexander Ororbia

We propose that in order to harness our understanding of neuroscience toward machine learning, we must first have powerful tools for training brain-like models of learning. Although substantial progress has been made toward understanding…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-06-29 Samuel Schmidgall , Joe Hays

There has been a strong push recently to examine biological scale simulations of neuromorphic algorithms to achieve stronger inference capabilities. This paper presents a set of piecewise linear spiking neuron models, which can reproduce…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-12-18 Hamid Soleimani , Arash Ahmadi , Mohammad Bavandpour

With the advent of kernel methods, automating the task of specifying a suitable kernel has become increasingly important. In this context, the Multiple Kernel Learning (MKL) problem of finding a combination of pre-specified base kernels…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-07-03 Abhishek Kumar , Alexandru Niculescu-Mizil , Koray Kavukcuoglu , Hal Daume

Calcium imaging for observing spiking activity from large populations of neurons are quickly gaining popularity. While the raw data are fluorescence movies, the underlying spike trains are of interest. This work presents a fast non-negative…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2011-02-21 Joshua T. Vogelstein , Adam M. Packer , Tim A. Machado , Tanya Sippy , Baktash Babadi , Rafael Yuste , Liam Paninski

Brain-inspired spiking neural networks (SNNs) have recently drawn more and more attention due to their event-driven and energy-efficient characteristics. The integration of storage and computation paradigm on neuromorphic hardwares makes…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-10-14 Yufei Guo , Liwen Zhang , Yuanpei Chen , Xinyi Tong , Xiaode Liu , YingLei Wang , Xuhui Huang , Zhe Ma

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) can offer ultra-low power/energy consumption for machine learning-based application tasks due to their sparse spike-based operations. Currently, most of the SNN architectures need a significantly larger model…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Rachmad Vidya Wicaksana Putra , Muhammad Shafique

The main purpose of our paper is a new approach to design of algorithms of Kaczmarz type in the framework of operators in Hilbert space. Our applications include a diverse list of optimization problems, new Karhunen-Lo\`eve transforms, and…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2021-04-27 Palle E. T. Jorgensen , Myung-Sin Song , James Tian

Binary classification is a fundamental problem in machine learning. Recent development of quantum similarity-based binary classifiers and kernel method that exploit quantum interference and feature quantum Hilbert space opened up tremendous…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-04-08 Daniel K. Park , Carsten Blank , Francesco Petruccione

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) are distributed trainable systems whose computing elements, or neurons, are characterized by internal analog dynamics and by digital and sparse synaptic communications. The sparsity of the synaptic spiking…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-22 Hyeryung Jang , Osvaldo Simeone , Brian Gardner , André Grüning

Spike trains serve as the primary medium for information transmission in Spiking Neural Networks, playing a crucial role in determining system efficiency. Existing encoding schemes based on spike counts or timing often face severe…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Yiwen Gu , Junchuan Gu , Haibin Shen , Kejie Huang

A seminal work [Jacot et al., 2018] demonstrated that training a neural network under specific parameterization is equivalent to performing a particular kernel method as width goes to infinity. This equivalence opened a promising direction…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-30 Eugene Golikov , Eduard Pokonechnyy , Vladimir Korviakov