Advancing Spatio-Temporal Processing in Spiking Neural Networks through Adaptation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2408.07517v1
• Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2024 12:49:58 GMT
• Title: Advancing Spatio-Temporal Processing in Spiking Neural Networks through Adaptation
• Authors: Maximilian Baronig, Romain Ferrand, Silvester Sabathiel, Robert Legenstein,
• Abstract summary: In this article, we analyze the dynamical, computational, and learning properties of adaptive LIF neurons and networks thereof. We show that the superiority of networks of adaptive LIF neurons extends to the prediction and generation of complex time series.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
• Abstract: Efficient implementations of spiking neural networks on neuromorphic hardware promise orders of magnitude less power consumption than their non-spiking counterparts. The standard neuron model for spike-based computation on such neuromorphic systems has long been the leaky integrate-and-fire (LIF) neuron. As a promising advancement, a computationally light augmentation of the LIF neuron model with an adaptation mechanism experienced a recent upswing in popularity, caused by demonstrations of its superior performance on spatio-temporal processing tasks. The root of the superiority of these so-called adaptive LIF neurons however, is not well understood. In this article, we thoroughly analyze the dynamical, computational, and learning properties of adaptive LIF neurons and networks thereof. We find that the frequently observed stability problems during training of such networks can be overcome by applying an alternative discretization method that results in provably better stability properties than the commonly used Euler-Forward method. With this discretization, we achieved a new state-of-the-art performance on common event-based benchmark datasets. We also show that the superiority of networks of adaptive LIF neurons extends to the prediction and generation of complex time series. Our further analysis of the computational properties of networks of adaptive LIF neurons shows that they are particularly well suited to exploit the spatio-temporal structure of input sequences. Furthermore, these networks are surprisingly robust to shifts of the mean input strength and input spike rate, even when these shifts were not observed during training. As a consequence, high-performance networks can be obtained without any normalization techniques such as batch normalization or batch-normalization through time.

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