Publications associées à Emergent Rate-Based Dynamics in Duplicate-Free Populations of Spiking Neurons

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Eflop: a Sparsity-aware Metric for Evaluating Computational Cost in Spiking and Non-spiking Neural Networks

Deploying energy-efficient deep neural networks on energy-constrained edge devices is an important research topic in both machine learning and circuit design communities. Both artificial neural networks (ANNs) and spiking neural networks (SNNs) have been p ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2025

Feature-based encoding of face identity by single neurons in the human amygdala and hippocampus

Emanuela De Falco

Neurons in the human amygdala and hippocampus are classically thought to encode a person’s identity invariant to visual features. However, it remains largely unknown how visual information from higher visual cortical areas is translated into such a semanti ...

2025

How Gradient Descent Balances Features: A Dynamical Analysis For Two-Layer Neural Networks

Volkan Cevher, Fanghui Liu, Zhenyu Zhu

This paper investigates the fundamental regression task of learning k neurons (a.k.a. teachers) from Gaussian input, using two-layer ReLU neural networks with width m (a.k.a. students) and m, k = O(1), trained via gradient descent under proper initializati ...

2025

Spiking Neural Networks for Active Time-Resolved SPAD Imaging

Edoardo Charbon, Yang Lin

Single-photon avalanche diodes (SPADs) are detectors capable of capturing single photons and of performing photon counting. SPADs have an exceptional temporal resolution and are thus highly suitable for time-resolved imaging applications. Applications span ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.2024

Gibbs sampling the posterior of neural networks

Lenka Zdeborová, Emanuele Troiani, Giovanni Piccioli

In this paper, we study sampling from a posterior derived from a neural network. We propose a new probabilistic model consisting of adding noise at every pre- and post-activation in the network, arguing that the resulting posterior can be sampled using an ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2024

From event-based surprise to lifelong learning. A journey in the timescales of adaptation

Martin Louis Lucien Rémy Barry

Humans and animals constantly adapt to their environment over the course of their life. This thesis seeks to integrate various timescales of adaptation, ranging from the adaptation of synaptic connections between spiking neurons (milliseconds), rapid behav ...

EPFL2023

An exact mapping from ReLU networks to spiking neural networks' [Neural Networks(vol168, pg 74, 2023)

Wulfram Gerstner, Stanislaw Andrzej Wozniak, Angeliki Pantazi, Guillaume Emmanuel Fernand Bellec, Ana Stanojevic

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2023

Indoor Real-time localization system design for Internet of Things applications

Pooneh Mohaghegh

With the prevalence of smartphones, watches, and Internet of Things (IoT) devices, the ability to track their positions is becoming increasingly important. For many indoor positioning systems (IPSs), providing an uninterrupted flow of information in real-t ...

EPFL2023

Brain microstructural and functional MRI: developments and application to a rat model of Alzheimer's disease

Yujian Diao

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has been a valuable tool in investigating the pathological cascade of Alzheimer's disease (AD) and its progression, which are still open questions. Although some MRI-derived hallmarks in terms of functional connectivity and ...

EPFL2023

Approximating Relu Networks By Single-Spike Computation

Wulfram Gerstner, Stanislaw Andrzej Wozniak, Angeliki Pantazi, Ana Stanojevic

Developing energy-saving neural network models is a topic of rapidly increasing interest in the artificial intelligence community. Spiking neural networks (SNNs) are biologically inspired models that strive to leverage the energy efficiency stemming from a ...

IEEE2022

Spike frequency adaptation supports network computations on temporally dispersed information

Guillaume Emmanuel Fernand Bellec

For solving tasks such as recognizing a song, answering a question, or inverting a sequence of symbols, cortical microcircuits need to integrate and manipulate information that was dispersed over time during the preceding seconds. Creating biologically rea ...

2021

Biologically plausible unsupervised learning in shallow and deep neural networks

Bernd Albert Illing

The way our brain learns to disentangle complex signals into unambiguous concepts is fascinating but remains largely unknown. There is evidence, however, that hierarchical neural representations play a key role in the cortex. This thesis investigates biolo ...

EPFL2021

Low-dimensional firing-rate dynamics for populations of renewal-type spiking neurons

Noé Victor Gallice, Tilo Schwalger

The macroscopic dynamics of large populations of neurons can be mathematically analyzed using low-dimensional firing-rate or neural-mass models. However, these models fail to capture spike synchronization effects and nonstationary responses of the populati ...

AMER PHYSICAL SOC2020

Topological exploration of artificial neuronal network dynamics

Kathryn Hess Bellwald, Gard Spreemann

One of the paramount challenges in neuroscience is to understand the dynamics of individual neurons and how they give rise to network dynamics when interconnected. Historically, researchers have resorted to graph theory, statistics, and statistical mechani ...

2019

Increased Neural Strength and Reliability to Audiovisual Stimuli at the Boundary of Peripersonal Space

Andrea Serino

The actionable space surrounding the body, referred to as peripersonal space (PPS), has been the subject of significant interest of late within the broader framework of embodied cognition. Neurophysiological and neuroimaging studies have shown the represen ...

2019

Towards a theory of cortical columns: From spiking neurons to interacting neural populations of finite size

Wulfram Gerstner, Tilo Schwalger, Moritz Deger

Neural population equations such as neural mass or field models are widely used to study brain activity on a large scale. However, the relation of these models to the properties of single neurons is unclear. Here we derive an equation for several interacti ...

Public Library of Science2017

A Model of Synaptic Reconsolidation

Wulfram Gerstner, Tilo Schwalger, Lorric Ziegler

Reconsolidation of memories has mostly been studied at the behavioral and molecular level. Here, we put forward a simple extension of existing computational models of synaptic consolidation to capture hippocampal slice experiments that have been interprete ...

Frontiers Research Foundation2016

Stochastic variational learning in recurrent spiking networks

Wulfram Gerstner

The ability to learn and perform statistical inference with biologically plausible recurrent networks of spiking neurons is an important step toward understanding perception and reasoning. Here we derive and investigate a new learning rule for recurrent sp ...

Frontiers Research Foundation2014

A new Mathematical Framework to Understand Single Neuron Computations

Skander Mensi

An important feature of the nervous system is its ability to adapt to new stimuli. This adaptation allows for optimal encoding of the incoming information by dynamically changing the coding strategy based upon the incoming inputs to the neuron. At the leve ...

EPFL2014

Models of Reward-Modulated Spike-Timing-Dependent Plasticity

Nicolas Frémaux

How do animals learn to repeat behaviors that lead to the obtention of food or other “rewarding” objects? As a biologically plausible paradigm for learning in spiking neural networks, spike-timing dependent plasticity (STDP) has been shown to perform well ...

EPFL2013