arXiv:2505.14841cs.NEcs.AI2025-05

用神经元同步放电指导学习,提升脉冲网络效率与鲁棒性

Learning with Spike Synchrony in Spiking Neural Networks

  • 基于神经元放电同步程度调整突触权重,而非仅看放电顺序
  • 在图像和高时间分辨率任务中提升收敛稳定性与抗噪声能力
  • 轻量级设计,可无缝集成到传统反向传播中,适合生物启发计算

脉冲神经网络(SNNs)通过模拟生物神经动态实现节能计算,但现有可塑性规则仅关注孤立的成对脉冲,未能利用生物系统中驱动学习的同步活动模式。本文提出脉冲同步依赖型可塑性(SSDP),根据神经元放电的同步程度而非脉冲时序顺序来调整突触权重。该方法作为局部后优化机制,仅更新稀疏参数子集,保持线性计算开销。SSDP充当轻量级事件结构正则化器,引导网络趋向生物合理的时空同步,同时维持标准收敛行为。其可无缝集成至标准反向传播,不破坏前向计算图。我们在单层SNN及脉冲Transformer上验证了该方法,在静态图像到高时间分辨率任务中均表现出更优的收敛稳定性,且对脉冲时间抖动和事件噪声更具鲁棒性。研究揭示了生物神经网络如何利用同步活动实现高效信息处理,表明同步依赖型可塑性可能是神经学习的核心计算原则。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) promise energy-efficient computation by mimicking biological neural dynamics, yet existing plasticity rules focus on isolated spike pairs and fail to leverage the synchronous activity patterns that drive learning in biological systems. We introduce spike-synchrony-dependent plasticity (SSDP), a training approach that adjusts synaptic weights based on the degree of synchronous neural firing rather than spike timing order. Our method operates as a local, post-optimization mechanism that applies updates to sparse parameter subsets, maintaining computational efficiency with linear scaling. SSDP serves as a lightweight event-structure regularizer, biasing the network toward biologically plausible spatio-temporal synchrony while preserving standard convergence behavior. SSDP seamlessly integrates with standard backpropagation while preserving the forward computation graph. We validate our approach across single-layer SNNs and spiking Transformers on datasets from static images to high-temporal-resolution tasks, demonstrating improved convergence stability and enhanced robustness to spike-time jitter and event noise. These findings provide new insights into how biological neural networks might leverage synchronous activity for efficient information processing and suggest that synchrony-dependent plasticity represents a key computational principle underlying neural learning.

脉冲神经网络同步学习生物启发可塑性

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