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ArticleBiological cybernetics2019

An unsupervised neuromorphic clustering algorithm.

Alan Diamond, Michael Schmuker, Thomas Nowotny

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Article in Biological cybernetics, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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Alan DiamondSchool of Engineering and Informatics, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton, BN1 9QJ, UK.
Michael SchmukerDepartment of Computer Science, University of Hertfordshire Hatfield, Hertfordshire, AL10 9AB, UK.ORCID 0000-0001-6753-4929
Thomas NowotnySchool of Engineering and Informatics, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton, BN1 9QJ, UK. t.nowotny@sussex.ac.uk.ORCID 0000-0002-4451-915X

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Abstract

Brains perform complex tasks using a fraction of the power that would be required to do the same on a conventional computer. New neuromorphic hardware systems are now becoming widely available that are intended to emulate the more power efficient, highly parallel operation of brains. However, to use these systems in applications, we need "neuromorphic algorithms" that can run on them. Here we develop a spiking neural network model for neuromorphic hardware that uses spike timing-dependent plasticity and lateral inhibition to perform unsupervised clustering. With this model, time-invariant, rate-coded datasets can be mapped into a feature space with a specified resolution, i.e., number of clusters, using exclusively neuromorphic hardware. We developed and tested implementations on the SpiNNaker neuromorphic system and on GPUs using the GeNN framework. We show that our neuromorphic clustering algorithm achieves results comparable to those of conventional clustering algorithms such as self-organizing maps, neural gas or k-means clustering. We then combine it with a previously reported supervised neuromorphic classifier network to demonstrate its practical use as a neuromorphic preprocessing module.

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AlgorithmsNeural Networks, ComputerUnsupervised Machine LearningAction PotentialsCluster AnalysisHumansNeuronsPattern Recognition, AutomatedPattern Recognition, VisualPhotic StimulationClassificationData clusteringNeuromorphic hardwareSelf-organizing mapSpiking neural networksUnsupervised learning

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PMID30944983
PMCPMC6658584

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