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ArticleFrontiers in computational neuroscience2021

Unsupervised Learning and Clustered Connectivity Enhance Reinforcement Learning in Spiking Neural Networks.

Philipp Weidel, Renato Duarte, Abigail Morrison

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Article in Frontiers in computational neuroscience, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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8citing papers in PubMed
1.6field-weighted citation impact, top 17% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed, 23 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Philipp WeidelInstitute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-6) & Institute for Advanced Simulation (IAS-6) & JARA-Institute Brain Structure-Function Relationship (JBI-1 / INM-10), Research Centre Jülich, Jülich, Germany.
Renato DuarteInstitute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-6) & Institute for Advanced Simulation (IAS-6) & JARA-Institute Brain Structure-Function Relationship (JBI-1 / INM-10), Research Centre Jülich, Jülich, Germany.
Abigail MorrisonInstitute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-6) & Institute for Advanced Simulation (IAS-6) & JARA-Institute Brain Structure-Function Relationship (JBI-1 / INM-10), Research Centre Jülich, Jülich, Germany.
Jülich Aachen Research Alliance · DERWTH Aachen University · DE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Reinforcement learning is a paradigm that can account for how organisms learn to adapt their behavior in complex environments with sparse rewards. To partition an environment into discrete states, implementations in spiking neuronal networks typically rely on input architectures involving place cells or receptive fields specified

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clustered connectivityneural plasticityreinforcement learningspiking neural networkunsupervised learning

Identifiers

PMID33746728
PMCPMC7970044
OpenAlexW3134038167

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