Title
Lattice Map Spiking Neural Networks (Lm-Snns) For Clustering And Classifying Image Data
Abstract
Spiking neural networks(SNNs) with a lattice architecture are introduced in this work, combining several desirable properties of SNNs andself-organized maps(SOMs). Networks are trained with biologically motivated, unsupervised learning rules to obtain a self-organized grid of filters via cooperative and competitive excitatory-inhibitory interactions. Several inhibition strategies are developed and tested, such as (i)incrementally increasinginhibition level over the course of network training, and (ii) switching the inhibition level from low to high (two-level) after an initial training segment. During thelabelingphase, the spiking activity generated by data with known labels is used to assign neurons to categories of data, which are then used to evaluate the network's classification ability on a held-out set of test data. Several biologically plausible evaluation rules are proposed and compared, including a population-level confidence rating, and ann-gram inspired method. The effectiveness of the proposed self-organized learning mechanism is tested using the MNIST benchmark dataset, as well as using images produced by playing the Atari Breakout game.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1007/s10472-019-09665-3
ANNALS OF MATHEMATICS AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Spiking neural networks (SNN), Self-Organized Maps (SOMs), Self clustering, Online learning, Robostness, Unsupervised learning, Winner-take-all classification
Journal
88
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
11-12
1012-2443
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.35
0
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Hananel Hazan1335.78
Daniel J. Saunders2161.69
Darpan T. Sanghavi3110.90
Hava T. Siegelmann4980145.09
Robert Kozma52110.20