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Compared with artificial neural networks (ANNs), spiking neural networks (SNNs) are promising to explore the brain-like behaviors since the spikes could encode more spatio-temporal information. Although pre-training from ANN or direct…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-09-18 Yujie Wu , Lei Deng , Guoqi Li , Jun Zhu , Luping Shi

In this paper, we derive a new model of synaptic plasticity, based on recent algorithms for reinforcement learning (in which an agent attempts to learn appropriate actions to maximize its long-term average reward). We show that these direct…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-19 Peter L. Bartlett , Jonathan Baxter

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) well support spatiotemporal learning and energy-efficient event-driven hardware neuromorphic processors. As an important class of SNNs, recurrent spiking neural networks (RSNNs) possess great computational…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-02-25 Wenrui Zhang , Peng Li

The prevailing of artificial intelligence-of-things calls for higher energy-efficient edge computing paradigms, such as neuromorphic agents leveraging brain-inspired spiking neural network (SNN) models based on spatiotemporally sparse…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-11-28 Haoran Gao , Xichuan Zhou , Yingcheng Lin , Min Tian , Liyuan Liu , Cong Shi

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) have recently emerged as a prominent neural computing paradigm. However, the typical shallow SNN architectures have limited capacity for expressing complex representations while training deep SNNs using input…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-03-26 Chankyu Lee , Syed Shakib Sarwar , Priyadarshini Panda , Gopalakrishnan Srinivasan , Kaushik Roy

Several recent studies attempt to address the biological implausibility of the well-known backpropagation (BP) method. While promising methods such as feedback alignment, direct feedback alignment, and their variants like sign-concordant…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-05-27 Yukun Yang , Peng Li

The backpropagation algorithm is often debated for its biological plausibility. However, various learning methods for neural architecture have been proposed in search of more biologically plausible learning. Most of them have tried to solve…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-11-25 Shashi Kant Gupta

Synaptic plasticity seems to be a capital aspect of the dynamics of neural networks. It is about the physiological modifications of the synapse, which have like consequence a variation of the value of the synaptic weight. The information…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2012-09-25 Tarek Behi , Najet Arous , Noureddine Ellouze

Synaptic plasticity poses itself as a powerful method of self-regulated unsupervised learning in neural networks. A recent resurgence of interest has developed in utilizing Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) together with synaptic plasticity…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-11-09 Samuel Schmidgall , Joe Hays

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

We propose a novel local learning rule for spiking neural networks in which spike propagation times undergo activity-dependent plasticity. Our plasticity rule aligns pre-synaptic spike times to produce a stronger and more rapid response.…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-11-16 Jørgen Jensen Farner , Ola Huse Ramstad , Stefano Nichele , Kristine Heiney

We propose a novel backpropagation algorithm for training spiking neural networks (SNNs) that encodes information in the relative multiple spike timing of individual neurons without single-spike restrictions. The proposed algorithm inherits…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Kakei Yamamoto , Yusuke Sakemi , Kazuyuki Aihara

This paper presents a vehicle lateral controller based on spiking neural networks capable of replicating the behavior of a model-based controller but with the additional ability to perform online adaptation. By making use of neural…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-06 Javier Pérez , Manuel A. Vargas , Juan A. Cabrera , Juan J. Castillo , Barys Shyrokau

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) are brain-inspired models that enable energy-efficient implementation on neuromorphic hardware. However, the supervised training of SNNs remains a hard problem due to the discontinuity of the spiking neuron…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-12-20 Mingqing Xiao , Qingyan Meng , Zongpeng Zhang , Yisen Wang , Zhouchen Lin

Learning synaptic weights of spiking neural network (SNN) models that can reproduce target spike trains from provided neural firing data is a central problem in computational neuroscience and spike-based computing. The discovery of the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-10-10 Bryce Bagley , Blake Bordelon , Benjamin Moseley , Ralf Wessel

We recently proposed the STiDi-BP algorithm, which avoids backward recursive gradient computation, for training multi-layer spiking neural networks (SNNs) with single-spike-based temporal coding. The algorithm employs a linear approximation…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-09-01 Maryam Mirsadeghi , Majid Shalchian , Saeed Reza Kheradpisheh , Timothée Masquelier

We address the problem of learning feedback control where the controller is a network constructed solely of deterministic spiking neurons. In contrast to previous investigations that were based on a spike rate model of the neuron, the…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2018-09-27 Tae Seung Kang , Arunava Banerjee

Spike-Timing-Dependent Plasticity (STDP) provides a biologically grounded learning rule for spiking neural networks (SNNs), but its reliance on precise spike timing and pairwise updates limits fast learning of weights. We introduce a…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Gouri Lakshmi S , Athira Chandrasekharan , Harshit Kumar , Muhammed Sahad E , Bikas C Das , Saptarshi Bej

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

In machine learning, error back-propagation in multi-layer neural networks (deep learning) has been impressively successful in supervised and reinforcement learning tasks. As a model for learning in the brain, however, deep learning has…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-12-19 Thomas Mesnard , Wulfram Gerstner , Johanni Brea