Focus Of The Issue Spiking Neural Networks

Author : Pierre Falez
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Download or read book Improving Spiking Neural Networks Trained with Spike Timing Dependent Plasticity for Image Recognition written by Pierre Falez and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Computer vision is a strategic field, in consequence of its great number of potential applications which could have a high impact on society. This area has quickly improved over the last decades, especially thanks to the advances of artificial intelligence and more particularly thanks to the accession of deep learning. Nevertheless, these methods present two main drawbacks in contrast with biological brains: they are extremely energy intensive and they need large labeled training sets. Spiking neural networks are alternative models offering an answer to the energy consumption issue. One attribute of these models is that they can be implemented very efficiently on hardware, in order to build ultra low-power architectures. In return, these models impose certain limitations, such as the use of only local memory and computations. It prevents the use of traditional learning methods, for example the gradient back-propagation. STDP is a learning rule, observed in biology, which can be used in spiking neural networks. This rule reinforces the synapses in which local correlations of spike timing are detected. It also weakens the other synapses. The fact that it is local and unsupervised makes it possible to abide by the constraints of neuromorphic architectures, which means it can be implemented efficiently, but it also provides a solution to the data set labeling issue. However, spiking neural networks trained with the STDP rule are affected by lower performances in comparison to those following a deep learning process. The literature about STDP still uses simple data but the behavior of this rule has seldom been used with more complex data, such as sets made of a large variety of real-world images.The aim of this manuscript is to study the behavior of these spiking models, trained through the STDP rule, on image classification tasks. The main goal is to improve the performances of these models, while respecting as much as possible the constraints of neuromorphic architectures. The first contribution focuses on the software simulations of spiking neural networks. Hardware implementation being a long and costly process, using simulation is a good alternative in order to study more quickly the behavior of different models. Then, the contributions focus on the establishment of multi-layered spiking networks; networks made of several layers, such as those in deep learning methods, allow to process more complex data. One of the chapters revolves around the matter of frequency loss seen in several spiking neural networks. This issue prevents the stacking of multiple spiking layers. The center point then switches to a study of STDP behavior on more complex data, especially colored real-world image. Multiple measurements are used, such as the coherence of filters or the sparsity of activations, to better understand the reasons for the performance gap between STDP and the more traditional methods. Lastly, the manuscript describes the making of multi-layered networks. To this end, a new threshold adaptation mechanism is introduced, along with a multi-layer training protocol. It is proven that such networks can improve the state-of-the-art for STDP.