SpikePropamine: Differentiable Plasticity in Spiking Neural Networks

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2106.02681v1
• Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2021 19:29:07 GMT
• Title: SpikePropamine: Differentiable Plasticity in Spiking Neural Networks
• Authors: Samuel Schmidgall, Julia Ashkanazy, Wallace Lawson, Joe Hays
• Abstract summary: We introduce a framework for learning the dynamics of synaptic plasticity and neuromodulated synaptic plasticity in Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) We show that SNNs augmented with differentiable plasticity are sufficient for solving a set of challenging temporal learning tasks. These networks are also shown to be capable of producing locomotion on a high-dimensional robotic learning task.
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• Abstract: 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 using Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) retain static synaptic connections, preventing additional learning after the initial training period. Here, we introduce a framework for simultaneously learning the underlying fixed-weights and the rules governing the dynamics of synaptic plasticity and neuromodulated synaptic plasticity in SNNs through gradient descent. We further demonstrate the capabilities of this framework on a series of challenging benchmarks, learning the parameters of several plasticity rules including BCM, Oja's, and their respective set of neuromodulatory variants. The experimental results display that SNNs augmented with differentiable plasticity are sufficient for solving a set of challenging temporal learning tasks that a traditional SNN fails to solve, even in the presence of significant noise. These networks are also shown to be capable of producing locomotion on a high-dimensional robotic learning task, where near-minimal degradation in performance is observed in the presence of novel conditions not seen during the initial training period.

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