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Controlling the flow and routing of data is a fundamental problem in many distributed networks, including transportation systems, integrated circuits, and the Internet. In the brain, synaptic plasticity rules have been discovered that…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-04-18 Jonathan Y. Suen , Saket Navlakha

Deep Neural Networks (DNN) have achieved human level performance in many image analytics tasks but DNNs are mostly deployed to GPU platforms that consume a considerable amount of power. Brain-inspired spiking neuromorphic chips consume low…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2016-05-26 Antonio Jimeno Yepes , Jianbin Tang

Efficient representation learning is essential for optimal information storage and classification. However, it is frequently overlooked in artificial neural networks (ANNs). This neglect results in networks that can become overparameterized…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Patrick Stricker , Florian Röhrbein , Andreas Knoblauch

Neural networks have long strived to emulate the learning capabilities of the human brain. While deep neural networks (DNNs) draw inspiration from the brain in neuron design, their training methods diverge from biological foundations.…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Joseph Bingham , Saman Zonouz , Dvir Aran

Inspired by the natural nervous system, synaptic plasticity rules are applied to train spiking neural networks with local information, making them suitable for online learning on neuromorphic hardware. However, when such rules are…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-02-28 J. Lu , J. J. Hagenaars , G. C. H. E. de Croon

The plasticity property of biological neural networks allows them to perform learning and optimize their behavior by changing their configuration. Inspired by biology, plasticity can be modeled in artificial neural networks by using Hebbian…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-12-21 Anil Yaman , Giovanni Iacca , Decebal Constantin Mocanu , George Fletcher , Mykola Pechenizkiy

The brain can learn to execute a wide variety of tasks quickly and efficiently. Nevertheless, most of the mechanisms that enable us to learn are unclear or incredibly complicated. Recently, considerable efforts have been made in…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Mohammad Modiri

The Synthetic Nervous System (SNS) is a biologically inspired neural network (NN). Due to its capability of capturing complex mechanisms underlying neural computation, an SNS model is a candidate for building compact and interpretable NN…

Solving the synaptic Credit Assignment Problem(CAP) is central to learning in both biological and artificial neural systems. Finding an optimal solution for synaptic CAP means setting the synaptic weights that assign credit to each neuron…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Saranraj Nambusubramaniyan , Shervin Safavi , Raja Guru , Andreas Knoblauch

Neuroscientists have long criticised deep learning algorithms as incompatible with current knowledge of neurobiology. We explore more biologically plausible versions of deep representation learning, focusing here mostly on unsupervised…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-08-10 Yoshua Bengio , Dong-Hyun Lee , Jorg Bornschein , Thomas Mesnard , Zhouhan Lin

To learn useful dynamics on long time scales, neurons must use plasticity rules that account for long-term, circuit-wide effects of synaptic changes. In other words, neural circuits must solve a credit assignment problem to appropriately…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2019-05-30 Owen Marschall , Kyunghyun Cho , Cristina Savin

Neural plasticity is an important functionality of human brain, in which number of neurons and synapses can shrink or expand in response to stimuli throughout the span of life. We model this dynamic learning process as an $L_0$-norm…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-05-04 Yang Li , Shihao Ji

The evolution of the human brain has led to the development of complex synaptic plasticity, enabling dynamic adaptation to a constantly evolving world. This progress inspires our exploration into a new paradigm for Spiking Neural Networks…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-02-02 Guobin Shen , Dongcheng Zhao , Yiting Dong , Yang Li , Feifei Zhao , Yi Zeng

Brain-inspired machine intelligence research seeks to develop computational models that emulate the information processing and adaptability that distinguishes biological systems of neurons. This has led to the development of spiking neural…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Alexander Ororbia

In this survey, we examine algorithms for conducting credit assignment in artificial neural networks that are inspired or motivated by neurobiology. These processes are unified under one possible taxonomy, which is constructed based on how…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Alexander G. Ororbia

As our understanding of the mechanisms of brain function is enhanced, the value of insights gained from neuroscience to the development of AI algorithms deserves further consideration. Here, we draw parallels with an existing tree-based ANN…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Fahad Sarfraz , Elahe Arani , Bahram Zonooz

Artificial Spiking Neural Networks (ASNNs) promise greater information processing efficiency because of discrete event-based (i.e., spike) computation. Several Machine Learning (ML) applications use biologically inspired plasticity…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Mahima Milinda Alwis Weerasinghe , David Parry , Grace Wang , Jacqueline Whalley

Dendrites are crucial structures for computation of an individual neuron. It has been shown that the dynamics of a biological neuron with dendrites can be approximated by artificial neural networks (ANN) with deep structure. However, it…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2023-05-23 Jingyang Ma , Songting Li , Douglas Zhou

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) have been attached great importance due to their biological plausibility and high energy-efficiency on neuromorphic chips. As these chips are usually resource-constrained, the compression of SNNs is thus…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-08-19 Yanqi Chen , Zhaofei Yu , Wei Fang , Tiejun Huang , Yonghong Tian

While deep neural networks (DNNs) have achieved remarkable performance in tasks such as image recognition, they often struggle with generalization, learning from few examples, and continuous adaptation - abilities inherent in biological…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Patrick Inoue , Florian Röhrbein , Andreas Knoblauch