Backpropagation with Biologically Plausible Spatio-Temporal Adjustment For Training Deep Spiking Neural Networks

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2110.08858v1
• Date: Sun, 17 Oct 2021 15:55:51 GMT
• Title: Backpropagation with Biologically Plausible Spatio-Temporal Adjustment For Training Deep Spiking Neural Networks
• Authors: Guobin Shen, Dongcheng Zhao and Yi Zeng
• Abstract summary: The success of deep learning is inseparable from backpropagation. We propose a biological plausible spatial adjustment, which rethinks the relationship between membrane potential and spikes. Secondly, we propose a biologically plausible temporal adjustment making the error propagate across the spikes in the temporal dimension.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: The spiking neural network (SNN) mimics the information processing operation in the human brain, represents and transmits information in spike trains containing wealthy spatial and temporal information, and shows superior performance on many cognitive tasks. In addition, the event-driven information processing enables the energy-efficient implementation on neuromorphic chips. The success of deep learning is inseparable from backpropagation. Due to the discrete information transmission, directly applying the backpropagation to the training of the SNN still has a performance gap compared with the traditional deep neural networks. Also, a large simulation time is required to achieve better performance, which results in high latency. To address the problems, we propose a biological plausible spatial adjustment, which rethinks the relationship between membrane potential and spikes and realizes a reasonable adjustment of gradients to different time steps. And it precisely controls the backpropagation of the error along the spatial dimension. Secondly, we propose a biologically plausible temporal adjustment making the error propagate across the spikes in the temporal dimension, which overcomes the problem of the temporal dependency within a single spike period of the traditional spiking neurons. We have verified our algorithm on several datasets, and the experimental results have shown that our algorithm greatly reduces the network latency and energy consumption while also improving network performance. We have achieved state-of-the-art performance on the neuromorphic datasets N-MNIST, DVS-Gesture, and DVS-CIFAR10. For the static datasets MNIST and CIFAR10, we have surpassed most of the traditional SNN backpropagation training algorithm and achieved relatively superior performance.

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