Evidence map›Paper›PMID 35393422›Full record

ArticleNature communications2022

Introducing principles of synaptic integration in the optimization of deep neural networks.

Giorgia Dellaferrera, Stanisław Woźniak, Giacomo Indiveri, Angeliki Pantazi, Evangelos Eleftheriou

Open access · goldAbstract read
In one paragraph

Article in Nature communications, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
7citing papers in PubMed
2.5field-weighted citation impact, top 11% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed, 30 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Advances and Perspectives in Graphene-Based Quantum Dots Enabled Neuromorphic Devices.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026
    Review
  2. Review
  3. Article
  4. Article
  5. Article
  6. Article
  7. Article
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Giorgia DellaferreraIBM Research - Zurich, Rüschlikon, Switzerland. gde@zurich.ibm.com.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1029-6637
Stanisław WoźniakIBM Research - Zurich, Rüschlikon, Switzerland.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7282-3792
Giacomo IndiveriInstitute of Neuroinformatics, University of Zurich and ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7109-1689
Angeliki PantaziIBM Research - Zurich, Rüschlikon, Switzerland.
Evangelos EleftheriouIBM Research - Zurich, Rüschlikon, Switzerland.
IBM Research - Zurich · CHSIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics · CHUniversity of Zurich · CH

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Plasticity circuits in the brain are known to be influenced by the distribution of the synaptic weights through the mechanisms of synaptic integration and local regulation of synaptic strength. However, the complex interplay of stimulation-dependent plasticity with local learning signals is disregarded by most of the artificial neural network training algorithms devised so far. Here, we propose a novel biologically inspired optimizer for artificial and spiking neural networks that incorporates key principles of synaptic plasticity observed in cortical dendrites: GRAPES (Group Responsibility for Adjusting the Propagation of Error Signals). GRAPES implements a weight-distribution-dependent modulation of the error signal at each node of the network. We show that this biologically inspired mechanism leads to a substantial improvement of the performance of artificial and spiking networks with feedforward, convolutional, and recurrent architectures, it mitigates catastrophic forgetting, and it is optimally suited for dedicated hardware implementations. Overall, our work indicates that reconciling neurophysiology insights with machine intelligence is key to boosting the performance of neural networks.

Indexed as

Neural Networks, ComputerNeuronal PlasticityAlgorithmsBrainLearning

Identifiers

PMID35393422
PMCPMC8989917
OpenAlexW4223654622

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
LicenceCC BY
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.