Title
Span: Spike Pattern Association Neuron For Learning Spatio-Temporal Spike Patterns
Abstract
Spiking Neural Networks (SNN) were shown to be suitable tools for the processing of spatio-temporal information. However, due to their inherent complexity, the formulation of efficient supervised learning algorithms for SNN is difficult and remains an important problem in the research area. This article presents SPAN-a spiking neuron that is able to learn associations of arbitrary spike trains in a supervised fashion allowing the processing of spatio-temporal information encoded in the precise timing of spikes. The idea of the proposed algorithm is to transform spike trains during the learning phase into analog signals so that common mathematical operations can be performed on them. Using this conversion, it is possible to apply the well-known Widrow-Hoff rule directly to the transformed spike trains in order to adjust the synaptic weights and to achieve a desired input/output spike behavior of the neuron. In the presented experimental analysis, the proposed learning algorithm is evaluated regarding its learning capabilities, its memory capacity, its robustness to noisy stimuli and its classification performance. Differences and similarities of SPAN regarding two related algorithms, ReSuMe and Chronotron, are discussed.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1142/S0129065712500128
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF NEURAL SYSTEMS
Keywords
Field
DocType
Spiking Neural Network, temporal coding, spike pattern association, learning
Operation,Pattern recognition,Computer science,Robustness (computer science),Artificial intelligence,Supervised training,Stimulus (physiology),Analog signal,Neuron,Spiking neural network,Machine learning
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
22
4
0129-0657
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
87
2.79
39
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ammar Mohemmed11406.71
Stefan Schliebs238018.56
Satoshi Matsuda31358.40
Nikola K Kasabov43645290.73