IEEE transactions on biomedical circuits and systems
Jul 15, 2019
Recent trends in the field of neural network accelerators investigate weight quantization as a means to increase the resource- and power-efficiency of hardware devices. As full on-chip weight storage is necessary to avoid the high energy cost of off-...
Statistical regularities in the environment create prior beliefs that we rely on to optimize our behavior when sensory information is uncertain. Bayesian theory formalizes how prior beliefs can be leveraged and has had a major impact on models of per...
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Jul 10, 2019
Complex dendrites in general present formidable challenges to understanding neuronal information processing. To circumvent the difficulty, a prevalent viewpoint simplifies the neuronal morphology as a point representing the soma, and the excitatory a...
Digital reconstruction or tracing of 3D neuron is essential for understanding the brain functions. While existing automatic tracing algorithms work well for the clean neuronal image with a single neuron, they are not robust to trace the neuron surrou...
Neural networks : the official journal of the International Neural Network Society
Jul 9, 2019
Building spiking neural networks (SNNs) based on biological synaptic plasticities holds a promising potential for accomplishing fast and energy-efficient computing, which is beneficial to mobile robotic applications. However, the implementations of S...
The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience
Jul 3, 2019
The ability of neural networks to associate successive states of network activity lies at the basis of many cognitive functions. Hence, we hypothesized that many ubiquitous structural and dynamical properties of local cortical networks result from as...
Deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have certain structural, mechanistic, representational, and functional parallels with primate visual cortex and also many differences. However, perhaps some of the differences can be reconciled. This study de...
A crucial step in understanding visual input is its organization into meaningful components, in particular object contours and partially occluded background structures. This requires that all contours are assigned to either the foreground or the back...
Many efforts have been spent in the last decade for the development of nanoscale synaptic devices integrated into neuromorphic circuits, trying to emulate the behavior of natural synapses. The study of brain properties with the standard approaches ba...
IEEE transactions on neural networks and learning systems
Jun 21, 2019
Recent studies have demonstrated the effectiveness of supervised learning in spiking neural networks (SNNs). A trainable SNN provides a valuable tool not only for engineering applications but also for theoretical neuroscience studies. Here, we propos...