@inproceedings{9d47da112ae445b28d9ee24f87e669ff,
title = "Improving the efficiency of spiking network learning",
abstract = "Spiking networks are third generation artificial neural networks with a higher level of biological realism. This realism comes at the cost of extra computation, which alongside their complexity makes them impractical for general machine-learning applications. We propose that for some problems, spiking networks can actually be more efficient than second generation networks. This paper presents several enhancements to the supervised learning algorithm SpikeProp, including reduced precision, fewer subconnections, a lookup table and event-driven computation. The cputime required by our new algorithm SpikeProp+ was measured and compared to multilayer perceptron backpropagation. We found SpikeProp+ to use 20 times less CPU than SpikeProp for learning a classifier, but it remains ten times slower than the perceptron network. Our new networks are not optimal however, and several avenues exist for achieving further gains. Our results suggest it may be possible to build highly-efficient neural networks in this way.",
keywords = "Computational costs, Efficiency, Spiking neural networks",
author = "Vaenthan Thiruvarudchelvan and Wayne Moore and Michael Antolovich",
year = "2013",
language = "English",
publisher = "Springer",
pages = "1--8",
editor = "Minho Lee",
booktitle = "ICONIP 2013",
address = "United States",
note = "International Conference on Neural Information Processing ; Conference date: 03-11-2013 Through 07-11-2013",
}