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Synaptic pruning reduces CNNs by 96% on CIFAR-10.
Synaptic strength can be seen as probability to propagate impulse, and according to synaptic plasticity, function could exist from propagation activity to synaptic strength. If the function satisfies constraints such as continuity and monotonicity, neural network under external stimulus will always go to fixed point, a…
In this work, we perform an exploratory study on synthesizing deep neural networks using biological synaptic strength distributions, and the potential influence of different distributions on modelling performance particularly for the scenario associated with small data sets. Surprisingly, a CNN with convolutional layer…
Improved KAN model explains brain dynamics through edge learning and synaptic strength.
Identifies learning rules from neural network observables.
New synaptic model derived from reinforcement learning for spiking neurons.
This paper suggests a learning-theoretic perspective on how synaptic plasticity benefits global brain functioning. We introduce a model, the selectron, that (i) arises as the fast time constant limit of leaky integrate-and-fire neurons equipped with spiking timing dependent plasticity (STDP) and (ii) is amenable to the…
New algorithm finds important synapses without training data.
Paper presents a method to extract and interpret knowledge from a spiking neural classifier.
Brain uses synaptic failure to sample from posterior distributions.
Bayesian brain computes without noise, using correlated activity.
The study reveals how synaptic correlations promote dimension reduction in neural networks.
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 strengths of SNNs are hindered by the sensitivity of spike-timing-dependent plasticit…
Locally learned synaptic failure enables complete Bayesian inference.
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 understood. Until recently, limitations in experimental methods have made it challen…
Natural gradient learning improves synaptic plasticity in spiking neurons.
There has been significant recent interest towards achieving highly efficient deep neural network architectures. A promising paradigm for achieving this is the concept of evolutionary deep intelligence, which attempts to mimic biological evolution processes to synthesize highly-efficient deep neural networks over succe…
A promising paradigm for achieving highly efficient deep neural networks is the idea of evolutionary deep intelligence, which mimics biological evolution processes to progressively synthesize more efficient networks. A crucial design factor in evolutionary deep intelligence is the genetic encoding scheme used to simula…
Enhances SNNs for spatio-temporal feature extraction.
Learning in neural networks poses peculiar challenges when using discretized rather then continuous synaptic states. The choice of discrete synapses is motivated by biological reasoning and experiments, and possibly by hardware implementation considerations as well. In this paper we extend a previous large deviations a…
New model reveals balance crucial for robust neural coding.
Proposes a method to prevent neural networks from forgetting learned tasks.
ANPyC combats forgetting by pruning and consolidating neural parameters.
A new neural model evolves to learn at the synaptic level.
A neuron is a basic physiological and computational unit of the brain. While much is known about the physiological properties of a neuron, its computational role is poorly understood. Here we propose to view a neuron as a signal processing device that represents the incoming streaming data matrix as a sparse vector of …
Dynamics and function of neuronal networks are determined by their synaptic connectivity. Current experimental methods to analyze synaptic network structure on the cellular level, however, cover only small fractions of functional neuronal circuits, typically without a simultaneous record of neuronal spiking activity. H…
Biological neural network mimics CCA for multi-channel data.
Proposes a new method to improve deep neural network performance.
A model explains credit assignment in deep learning networks.
It is widely believed that the backpropagation algorithm is essential for learning good feature detectors in early layers of artificial neural networks, so that these detectors are useful for the task performed by the higher layers of that neural network. At the same time, the traditional form of backpropagation is bio…
Elite ONNs learn better with synaptic plasticity, improving performance over CNNs.
Bayesian method reconstructs neural network memories from connectivity.
Neuronal circuits formed in the brain are complex with intricate connection patterns. Such complexity is also observed in the retina as a relatively simple neuronal circuit. A retinal ganglion cell receives excitatory inputs from neurons in previous layers as driving forces to fire spikes. Analytical methods are requir…
Analyzes unsupervised neural networks using statistical mechanics and Monte Carlo simulations.
Deep CNN model predicts neuronal cell health from images.
Olshausen and Field (OF) proposed that neural computations in the primary visual cortex (V1) can be partially modeled by sparse dictionary learning. By minimizing the regularized representation error they derived an online algorithm, which learns Gabor-filter receptive fields from a natural image ensemble in agreement …
Paper models Pavlov's classical conditioning using stochastic processes and Langevin equations.
New method improves deep learning performance without weight symmetry.
Deep neural networks (DNNs) often require good regularizers to generalize well. Currently, state-of-the-art DNN regularization techniques consist in randomly dropping units and/or connections on each iteration of the training algorithm. Dropout and DropConnect are characteristic examples of such regularizers, that are …
New framework boosts neural network performance and resilience.
Stochasticity and limited precision of synaptic weights in neural network models are key aspects of both biological and hardware modeling of learning processes. Here we show that a neural network model with stochastic binary weights naturally gives prominence to exponentially rare dense regions of solutions with a numb…
Neural networks are commonly trained to make predictions through learning algorithms. Contrastive Hebbian learning, which is a powerful rule inspired by gradient backpropagation, is based on Hebb's rule and the contrastive divergence algorithm. It operates in two phases, the forward (or free) phase, where the data are …
Unified theory for training neural networks with binary synapses.
Ensembles of neural networks learn better by sharing information.
Despite our extensive knowledge of biophysical properties of neurons, there is no commonly accepted algorithmic theory of neuronal function. Here we explore the hypothesis that single-layer neuronal networks perform online symmetric nonnegative matrix factorization (SNMF) of the similarity matrix of the streamed data. …
We show that discrete synaptic weights can be efficiently used for learning in large scale neural systems, and lead to unanticipated computational performance. We focus on the representative case of learning random patterns with binary synapses in single layer networks. The standard statistical analysis shows that this…
New algorithms avoid weight transport, outperforming current deep learning methods.
QSD enhances deep network performance through biologically plausible dropout.