A temporally and spatially local spike-based backpropagation algorithm to enable training in hardware

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2207.09755v2
• Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2023 12:44:57 GMT
• Title: A temporally and spatially local spike-based backpropagation algorithm to enable training in hardware
• Authors: Anmol Biswas, Vivek Saraswat, Udayan Ganguly
• Abstract summary: Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) have emerged as a hardware efficient architecture for classification tasks. There have been several attempts to adopt the powerful backpropagation (BP) technique used in non-spiking artificial neural networks (ANNs)
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• Abstract: Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) have emerged as a hardware efficient architecture for classification tasks. The challenge of spike-based encoding has been the lack of a universal training mechanism performed entirely using spikes. There have been several attempts to adopt the powerful backpropagation (BP) technique used in non-spiking artificial neural networks (ANN): (1) SNNs can be trained by externally computed numerical gradients. (2) A major advancement towards native spike-based learning has been the use of approximate Backpropagation using spike-time dependent plasticity (STDP) with phased forward/backward passes. However, the transfer of information between such phases for gradient and weight update calculation necessitates external memory and computational access. This is a challenge for standard neuromorphic hardware implementations. In this paper, we propose a stochastic SNN based Back-Prop (SSNN-BP) algorithm that utilizes a composite neuron to simultaneously compute the forward pass activations and backward pass gradients explicitly with spikes. Although signed gradient values are a challenge for spike-based representation, we tackle this by splitting the gradient signal into positive and negative streams. We show that our method approaches BP ANN baseline with sufficiently long spike-trains. Finally, we show that the well-performing softmax cross-entropy loss function can be implemented through inhibitory lateral connections enforcing a Winner Take All (WTA) rule. Our SNN with a 2-layer network shows excellent generalization through comparable performance to ANNs with equivalent architecture and regularization parameters on static image datasets like MNIST, Fashion-MNIST, Extended MNIST, and temporally encoded image datasets like Neuromorphic MNIST datasets. Thus, SSNN-BP enables BP compatible with purely spike-based neuromorphic hardware.

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