arXiv:2603.09729q-bio.NCcs.RO2026-03

用脉冲神经网络约束自由能,实现高效稳健的控制。

Efficient and robust control with spikes that constrain free energy

  • 基于自由能原理设计脉冲神经网络,仅在降低自由能时放电。
  • 稀疏放电下性能媲美其他脉冲框架,抗噪声和故障能力强。
  • 为脑科学提供新解释,也适合类脑硬件中的控制算法设计。

动物大脑在感知与行动中表现出惊人效率,同时对内外扰动具有鲁棒性,但其机制尚不明确,阻碍了对认知的理解及高效控制算法的实现。自由能原理或可解释这种鲁棒性,但现有实现多依赖非生物真实的传统方法,缺乏脉冲特性。本文提出一种新型、高效且鲁棒的脉冲控制框架,具备真实生物特征。神经元仅在减少内部表征自由能时放电,形成自由能约束网络。该网络通过高度稀疏活动实现高效运行,性能与同类脉冲框架相当,且对感官噪声、碰撞等外部扰动,以及突触噪声、延迟、神经元失活等内部扰动均具强韧性。整体工作为脉冲控制提供了新的数学范式,既深化了对脑网络如何利用脉冲机制的理解,也为类脑硬件中的高效控制算法开辟了新路径。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Animal brains exhibit remarkable efficiency in perception and action, while being robust to both external and internal perturbations. The means by which brains accomplish this remains, for now, poorly understood, hindering our understanding of animal and human cognition, as well as our own implementation of efficient algorithms for control of dynamical systems.A potential candidate for a robust mechanism of state estimation and action computation is the free energy principle, but existing implementations of this principle have largely relied on conventional, biologically implausible approaches without spikes. We propose a novel, efficient, and robust spiking control framework with realistic biological characteristics. The resulting networks function as free energy constrainers, in which neurons only fire if they reduce the free energy of their internal representation. The networks offer efficient operation through highly sparse activity while matching performance with other similar spiking frameworks, and have high resilience against both external (e.g. sensory noise or collisions) and internal perturbations (e.g. synaptic noise and delays or neuron silencing) that such a network would be faced with when deployed by either an organism or an engineer. Overall, our work provides a novel mathematical account for spiking control through constraining free energy, providing both better insight into how brain networks might leverage their spiking substrate and a new route for implementing efficient control algorithms in neuromorphic hardware.

脉冲神经网络自由能原理类脑控制

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