no code implementations • 25 Feb 2023 • Chris Fields, Filippo Fabrocini, Karl Friston, James F. Glazebrook, Hananel Hazan, Michael Levin, Antonino Marciano
Living systems face both environmental complexity and limited access to free-energy resources.
no code implementations • 15 Feb 2022 • Hananel Hazan, Simon Caby, Christopher Earl, Hava Siegelmann, Michael Levin
A common view in the neuroscience community is that memory is encoded in the connection strength between neurons.
1 code implementation • NeurIPS Workshop Neuro_AI 2019 • Sneha Aenugu, Abhishek Sharma, Sasikiran Yelamarthi, Hananel Hazan, Philip S. Thomas, Robert Kozma
Neuroscientific theory suggests that dopaminergic neurons broadcast global reward prediction errors to large areas of the brain influencing the synaptic plasticity of the neurons in those regions.
no code implementations • 4 Jun 2019 • Hananel Hazan, Daniel J. Saunders, Darpan T. Sanghavi, Hava Siegelmann, Robert Kozma
Spiking neural networks (SNNs) with a lattice architecture are introduced in this work, combining several desirable properties of SNNs and self-organized maps (SOMs).
no code implementations • 12 Apr 2019 • Daniel J. Saunders, Devdhar Patel, Hananel Hazan, Hava T. Siegelmann, Robert Kozma
In recent years, Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) have demonstrated great successes in completing various Machine Learning tasks.
3 code implementations • 26 Mar 2019 • Devdhar Patel, Hananel Hazan, Daniel J. Saunders, Hava Siegelmann, Robert Kozma
Previous studies in image classification domain demonstrated that standard NNs (with ReLU nonlinearity) trained using supervised learning can be converted to SNNs with negligible deterioration in performance.
no code implementations • 24 Jul 2018 • Hananel Hazan, Daniel J. Saunders, Darpan T. Sanghavi, Hava T. Siegelmann, Robert Kozma
We present a system comprising a hybridization of self-organized map (SOM) properties with spiking neural networks (SNNs) that retain many of the features of SOMs.
1 code implementation • 4 Jun 2018 • Hananel Hazan, Daniel J. Saunders, Hassaan Khan, Darpan T. Sanghavi, Hava T. Siegelmann, Robert Kozma
In this paper, we describe a new Python package for the simulation of spiking neural networks, specifically geared towards machine learning and reinforcement learning.