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ArticleFrontiers in neuroscience2020

On the Self-Repair Role of Astrocytes in STDP Enabled Unsupervised SNNs.

Mehul Rastogi, Sen Lu, Nafiul Islam, Abhronil Sengupta

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Article in Frontiers in neuroscience, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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Mehul RastogiSchool of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Pennsylvania State University (PSU), University Park, PA, United States.
Sen LuSchool of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Pennsylvania State University (PSU), University Park, PA, United States.
Nafiul IslamSchool of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Pennsylvania State University (PSU), University Park, PA, United States.
Abhronil SenguptaSchool of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Pennsylvania State University (PSU), University Park, PA, United States.

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Abstract

Neuromorphic computing is emerging to be a disruptive computational paradigm that attempts to emulate various facets of the underlying structure and functionalities of the brain in the algorithm and hardware design of next-generation machine learning platforms. This work goes beyond the focus of current neuromorphic computing architectures on computational models for neuron and synapse to examine other computational units of the biological brain that might contribute to cognition and especially self-repair. We draw inspiration and insights from computational neuroscience regarding functionalities of glial cells and explore their role in the fault-tolerant capacity of Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) trained in an unsupervised fashion using Spike-Timing Dependent Plasticity (STDP). We characterize the degree of self-repair that can be enabled in such networks with varying degree of faults ranging from 50 to 90% and evaluate our proposal on the MNIST and Fashion-MNIST datasets.

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astrocytesself-repairspike-timing dependent plasticityspiking neural networksunsupervised learning

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PMID33519358
PMCPMC7841294

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