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Spiking neural networks are biologically plausible counterparts of the artificial neural networks, artificial neural networks are usually trained with stochastic gradient descent and spiking neural networks are trained with spike timing…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-09-26 Ruthvik Vaila , John Chiasson , Vishal Saxena

In this paper we analyze the behaviour of the stochastic gradient descent (SGD), a widely used method in supervised learning for optimizing neural network weights via a minimization of non-convex loss functions. Since the pioneering work of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Davide Barbieri , Matteo Bonforte , Peio Ibarrondo

Precise control over language model generation is vital for ensuring both safety and reliability. Although prompt engineering and steering are commonly used to intervene in model behaviors, the vast number of parameters in models often…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Mengru Wang , Ziwen Xu , Shengyu Mao , Shumin Deng , Zhaopeng Tu , Huajun Chen , Ningyu Zhang

Recurrent neural networks are powerful tools for understanding and modeling computation and representation by populations of neurons. Continuous-variable or "rate" model networks have been analyzed and applied extensively for these…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2016-01-29 Brian DePasquale , Mark M. Churchland , L. F. Abbott

This article underlines the learning and discrimination capabilities of a model of associative memory based on artificial networks of spiking neurons. Inspired from neuropsychology and neurobiology, the model implements top-down…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2016-08-16 Anthony Mouraud , Hélène Paugam-Moisy

Humans perform remarkably well in many cognitive tasks including pattern recognition. However, the neuronal mechanisms underlying this process are not well understood. Nevertheless, artificial neural networks, inspired in brain circuits,…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2018-06-28 Gianluca Susi , Luis Anton Toro , Leonides Canuet , Maria Eugenia Lopez , Fernando Maestu , Claudio R. Mirasso , Ernesto Pereda

Stuttering is a neuro-developmental speech impairment characterized by uncontrolled utterances (interjections) and core behaviors (blocks, repetitions, and prolongations), and is caused by the failure of speech sensorimotors. Due to its…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-02-23 Shakeel A. Sheikh , Md Sahidullah , Fabrice Hirsch , Slim Ouni

Predictive coding can be regarded as a function which reduces the error between an input signal and a top-down prediction. If reducing the error is equivalent to reducing the influence of stimuli from the environment, predictive coding can…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-11-22 Atsushi Masumori , Lana Sinapayen , Takashi Ikegami

The backpropagation algorithm has promoted the rapid development of deep learning, but it relies on a large amount of labeled data and still has a large gap with how humans learn. The human brain can quickly learn various conceptual…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Yiting Dong , Dongcheng Zhao , Yang Li , Yi Zeng

Spike-timing-dependent-plasticity (STDP) is an unsupervised learning algorithm for spiking neural network (SNN), which promises to achieve deeper understanding of human brain and more powerful artificial intelligence. While conventional…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-09-13 Xueyuan She , Yun Long , Saibal Mukhopadhyay

We introduce a new supervised learning algorithm based to train spiking neural networks for classification. The algorithm overcomes a limitation of existing multi-spike learning methods: it solves the problem of interference between…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-08-12 Huy Le Nguyen , Dominique Chu

Fitting network models to neural activity is an important tool in neuroscience. A popular approach is to model a brain area with a probabilistic recurrent spiking network whose parameters maximize the likelihood of the recorded activity.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-11-16 Guillaume Bellec , Shuqi Wang , Alireza Modirshanechi , Johanni Brea , Wulfram Gerstner

The ability to predict future events or patterns based on previous experience is crucial for many applications such as traffic control, weather forecasting, or supply chain management. While modern supervised Machine Learning approaches…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2024-10-16 Florian Feiler , Emre Neftci , Younes Bouhadjar

Learning based on networks of real neurons, and by extension biologically inspired models of neural networks, has yet to find general learning rules leading to widespread applications. In this paper, we argue for the existence of a…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-02-19 Lana Sinapayen , Atsushi Masumori , Takashi Ikegami

A scheme is derived for learning connectivity in spiking neural networks. The scheme learns instantaneous firing rates that are conditional on the activity in other parts of the network. The scheme is independent of the choice of neuron…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2015-02-23 James A. Henderson , TingTing A. Gibson , Janet Wiles

The Straight-Through Estimator (STE) is the dominant method for training neural networks with discrete variables, enabling gradient-based optimisation by routing gradients through a differentiable surrogate. However, existing STE variants…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Rushi Shah , Mingyuan Yan , Michael Curtis Mozer , Dianbo Liu

The intrinsic dynamics and event-driven nature of spiking neural networks (SNNs) make them excel in processing temporal information by naturally utilizing embedded time sequences as time steps. Recent studies adopting this approach have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-18 Jiaqi Wang , Liutao Yu , Liwei Huang , Chenlin Zhou , Han Zhang , Zhenxi Song , Min Zhang , Zhengyu Ma , Zhiguo Zhang

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) with event-based computation are promising brain-inspired models for energy-efficient applications on neuromorphic hardware. However, most supervised SNN training methods, such as conversion from artificial…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-02-02 Mingqing Xiao , Qingyan Meng , Zongpeng Zhang , Yisen Wang , Zhouchen Lin

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) promise low-power event-driven computation for temporally rich tasks, but commonly used neuron models often trade off gradient-based trainability, dynamical richness, and high activity sparsity. These…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Alex Fulleda-Garcia , Saray Soldado-Magraner , Josep Maria Margarit-Taulé

The spiking neural network (SNN), as a promising brain-inspired computational model with binary spike information transmission mechanism, rich spatially-temporal dynamics, and event-driven characteristics, has received extensive attention.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Yufei Guo , Xuhui Huang , Zhe Ma