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ArticleEntropy (Basel, Switzerland)2025

Noise and Dynamical Synapses as Optimization Tools for Spiking Neural Networks.

Yana Garipova, Shogo Yonekura, Yasuo Kuniyoshi

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Article in Entropy (Basel, Switzerland), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Yana GaripovaLaboratory for Intelligent Systems and Informatics, University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan.
Shogo YonekuraLaboratory for Intelligent Systems and Informatics, University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan.ORCID 0000-0002-3223-6902
Yasuo KuniyoshiLaboratory for Intelligent Systems and Informatics, University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan.ORCID 0000-0001-8443-4161

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Standard ANNs lack flexibility when handling corrupted input due to their fixed structure. In this paper, a spiking neural network utilizes biological temporal coding features in the form of noise-induced stochastic resonance and dynamical synapses to increase the model's performance when its parameters are not optimized for a given input. Using the analog XOR task as a simplified convolutional neural network model, this paper demonstrates two key results: (1) SNNs solve the problem that is linearly inseparable in ANN with fewer neurons, and (2) in leaky SNNs, the addition of noise and dynamical synapses compensate for non-optimal parameters, achieving near-optimal results for weaker inputs.

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adaptabilitydynamical synapseleaky integrate-and-fire neuronnoisespiking neural networksstochastic resonance

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PMID40149143
PMCPMC11941097

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