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The problem of training spiking neural networks (SNNs) is a necessary precondition to understanding computations within the brain, a field still in its infancy. Previous work has shown that supervised learning in multi-layer SNNs enables…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-03-12 Amirhossein Tavanaei , Anthony S. Maida

We study the synchronization of two model neurons coupled through a synapse having an activity-dependent strength. Our synapse follows the rules of Spike-Timing Dependent Plasticity (STDP). We show that this plasticity of the coupling…

Biological Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Valentin P. Zhigulin , Mikhail I. Rabinovich , Ramon Huerta , Henry D. I. Abarbanel

While surrogate backpropagation proves useful for training deep spiking neural networks (SNNs), incorporating biologically inspired local signals on a large scale remains challenging. This difficulty stems primarily from the high memory…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Yuchen Tian , Samuel Tensingh , Jason Eshraghian , Nhan Duy Truong , Omid Kavehei

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) could play a key role in unsupervised machine learning applications, by virtue of strengths related to learning from the fine temporal structure of event-based signals. However, some spike-timing-related…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-09-10 Timoleon Moraitis , Abu Sebastian , Irem Boybat , Manuel Le Gallo , Tomas Tuma , Evangelos Eleftheriou

Learning and memory in the brain are implemented by complex, time-varying changes in neural circuitry. The computational rules according to which synaptic weights change over time are the subject of much research, and are not precisely…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-11-18 Scott W. Linderman , Christopher H. Stock , Ryan P. Adams

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs), recognized for their biological plausibility and energy efficiency, employ sparse and asynchronous spikes for communication. However, the training of SNNs encounters difficulties coming from…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2024-05-09 Sushant Yadav , Santosh Chaudhary , Rajesh Kumar

Synchronization is a widespread phenomenon in the brain. Despite numerous studies, the specific parameter configurations of the synaptic network structure and learning rules needed to achieve robust and enduring synchronization in neurons…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2023-08-15 Marius E. Yamakou , Mathieu Desroches , Serafim Rodrigues

We examine the stability of the "coast" motion of fish, that is to say, the motion of a neutrally buoyant fish at constant speed in a straight line. The forces and moments acting on the fish body are thus perfectly balanced. The fish motion…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2013-07-01 Fangxu Jing , Eva Kanso

Synapse plays an important role of learning in a neural network; the learning rules which modify the synaptic strength based on the timing difference between the pre- and post-synaptic spike occurrence is termed as Spike Time Dependent…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2015-12-31 Roshan Gopalakrishnan , Arindam Basu

We introduce Spike Agreement Dependent Plasticity (SADP), a biologically inspired synaptic learning rule for Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) that relies on the agreement between pre- and post-synaptic spike trains rather than precise…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Saptarshi Bej , Muhammed Sahad E , Gouri Lakshmi , Harshit Kumar , Pritam Kar , Bikas C Das

Spike Timing Dependent Plasticity is form of learning that has been demonstrated in real cortical tissue, but attempts to use it for artificial systems have not produced good results. This paper seeks to remedy this with two significant…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-07-01 Simon Davidson , Stephen B. Furber , Oliver Rhodes

Memristor-based Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) with temporal spike encoding enable ultra-low-energy computation, making them ideal for battery-powered intelligent devices. This paper presents a circuit-level memristive spiking neural…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Santlal Prajapati , Susmita Sur-Kolay , Soumyadeep Dutta

Most aquatic vertebrates swim by lateral flapping of their bodies and caudal fins. While much effort has been devoted to understanding the flapping kinematics and its influence on the swimming efficiency, little is known about the stability…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-15 Fangxu Jing , Eva Kanso

Triplet-based Spike Timing Dependent Plasticity (TSTDP) is a powerful synaptic plasticity rule that acts beyond conventional pair-based STDP (PSTDP). Here, the TSTDP is capable of reproducing the outcomes from a variety of biological…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2013-04-02 Mostafa Rahimi Azghadi , Said Al-Sarawi , Derek Abbott , Nicolangelo Iannella

The dynamic response of power grids to small disturbances influences their overall stability. This paper examines the effect of network topology on the linearized time-invariant dynamics of electric power systems. The proposed framework…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-09-14 Siddharth Bhela , Harsha Nagarajan , Deepjyoti Deka , Vassilis Kekatos

The synaptic connectivity of cortical networks features an overrepresentation of certain wiring motifs compared to simple random-network models. This structure is shaped, in part, by synaptic plasticity that promotes or suppresses…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2014-12-23 Gabriel Koch Ocker , Ashok Litwin-Kumar , Brent Doiron

Biological neurons have adaptive nature and perform complex computations involving the filtering of redundant information. However, most common neural cell models, including biologically plausible, such as Hodgkin-Huxley or Izhikevich, do…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2021-06-22 Oleg Nikitin , Olga Lukyanova , Alex Kunin

The adaptive changes in synaptic efficacy that occur between spiking neurons have been demonstrated to play a critical role in learning for biological neural networks. Despite this source of inspiration, many learning focused applications…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-05-30 Samuel Schmidgall , Julia Ashkanazy , Wallace Lawson , Joe Hays

Learning in the brain requires complementary mechanisms: potentiation and activity-dependent homeostatic scaling. We introduce synaptic scaling to a biologically-realistic spiking model of neocortex which can learn changes in oscillatory…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2013-04-09 Mark Rowan , Samuel Neymotin

Spiking neural networks, the third generation of artificial neural networks, have become an important family of neuron-based models that sidestep many of the key limitations facing modern-day backpropagation-trained deep networks, including…

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