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We present an unsupervised deep learning model for 3D object classification. Conventional Hebbian learning, a well-known unsupervised model, suffers from loss of local features leading to reduced performance for tasks with complex geometric…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-02-24 Beomseok Kang , Biswadeep Chakraborty , Saibal Mukhopadhyay

The "fire together, wire together" Hebbian model is a central principle for learning in neuroscience, but surprisingly, it has found limited applicability in modern machine learning. In this paper, we take a first step towards bridging this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Aseem Wadhwa , Upamanyu Madhow

Since humans still outperform artificial neural networks on many tasks, drawing inspiration from the brain may help to improve current machine learning algorithms. Contrastive Hebbian Learning (CHL) and Equilibrium Propagation (EP) are…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-05-02 Yoshimasa Kubo , Eric Chalmers , Artur Luczak

Generating functionals may guide the evolution of a dynamical system and constitute a possible route for handling the complexity of neural networks as relevant for computational intelligence. We propose and explore a new objective function,…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2017-11-27 Rodrigo Echeveste , Claudius Gros

Learning in the brain is poorly understood and learning rules that respect biological constraints, yet yield deep hierarchical representations, are still unknown. Here, we propose a learning rule that takes inspiration from neuroscience and…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-10-27 Bernd Illing , Jean Ventura , Guillaume Bellec , Wulfram Gerstner

Spiking neural networks (SNN) are considered as a perspective basis for performing all kinds of learning tasks - unsupervised, supervised and reinforcement learning. Learning in SNN is implemented through synaptic plasticity - the rules…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-11-15 Mikhail Kiselev

Hebbian and anti-Hebbian plasticity are widely observed in the biological brain, yet their theoretical understanding remains limited. In this work, we find that when a learning method is regularized with L2 weight decay, its learning signal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-02 David Koplow , Tomaso Poggio , Liu Ziyin

Memory is a key component of biological neural systems that enables the retention of information over a huge range of temporal scales, ranging from hundreds of milliseconds up to years. While Hebbian plasticity is believed to play a pivotal…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Thomas Limbacher , Ozan Özdenizci , Robert Legenstein

The human brain functions very differently from artificial neural networks (ANN) and possesses unique features that are absent in ANN. An important one among them is "adaptive synaptogenesis" that modifies synaptic weights when needed to…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-04-16 Faiyaz Elahi Mullick , Supriyo Bandyopadhyay , Rob Baxter , Tony J. Ragucci , Avik W. Ghosh

Much has been learned about plasticity of biological synapses from empirical studies. Hebbian plasticity is driven by correlated activity of presynaptic and postsynaptic neurons. Synapses that converge onto the same neuron often behave as…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-04-04 H. Sebastian Seung , Jonathan Zung

Many mathematical models of synaptic plasticity have been proposed to explain the diversity of plasticity phenomena observed in biological organisms. These models range from simple interpretations of Hebb's postulate, which suggests that…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-08-05 Danil Tyulmankov

Neuromorphic systems that employ advanced synaptic learning rules, such as the three-factor learning rule, require synaptic devices of increased complexity. Herein, a novel neoHebbian artificial synapse utilizing ReRAM devices has been…

The research presented in this paper advances the integration of Hebbian learning into Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) for image processing, systematically exploring different architectures to build an optimal configuration, adhering…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Julian Jimenez Nimmo , Esther Mondragon

We present a novel stochastic Hebb-like learning rule for neural networks. This learning rule is stochastic with respect to the selection of the time points when a synaptic modification is induced by pre- and postsynaptic activation.…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-05-23 Frank Emmert-Streib

Biological synaptic plasticity exhibits nonlinearities that are not accounted for by classic Hebbian learning rules. Here, we introduce a simple family of generalized nonlinear Hebbian learning rules. We study the computations implemented…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2021-10-27 Gabriel Koch Ocker , Michael A. Buice

Neural networks with synaptic weights constructed according to the weighted Hebb rule, a variant of the familiar Hebb rule, are studied in the presence of noise(finite temperature), when the number of stored patterns is finite and in the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 Caren Marzban , Raju Viswanathan

The cortex learns to make associations between stimuli and spiking activity which supports behaviour. It does this by adjusting synaptic weights. The complexity of these transformations implies that synapses have to change without access to…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2019-11-04 Johnatan Aljadeff , James D'amour , Rachel E. Field , Robert C. Froemke , Claudia Clopath

Lateral inhibition models coupled with Hebbian plasticity have been shown to learn factorised causal representations of input stimuli, for instance, oriented edges are learned from natural images. Currently, these models require the…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-01-07 Henrique Reis Aguiar , Matthias H. Hennig

Biological neural networks continuously adapt and modify themselves in response to experiences throughout their lifetime - a capability largely absent in artificial neural networks. Hebbian plasticity offers a promising path toward rapid…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Alexander Dittrich , Fuda van Diggelen , Dario Floreano

Hebbian learning is a key principle underlying learning in biological neural networks. We relate a Hebbian spike-timing-dependent plasticity rule to noisy gradient descent with respect to a non-convex loss function on the probability…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Niklas Dexheimer , Sascha Gaudlitz , Johannes Schmidt-Hieber