norse

Deep learning with spiking neural networks (SNNs) in PyTorch. (by norse)

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  • Neuromorphic learning, working memory, and metaplasticity in nanowire networks
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 24 Apr 2023
    This gives you a ludicrous advantage over current neural net accelerators. Specifically 3-5 orders is magnitude in energy and time, as demonstrated in the BranScaleS system https://www.humanbrainproject.eu/en/science-development/focu...

    Unfortunately, that doesn't solve the problem of learning. Just because you can build efficient neuromorphic systems doesn't mean that we know how to train them. Briefly put, the problem is that a physical system has physical constraints. You can't just read the global state in NWN and use gradient descent as we would in deep learning. Rather, we have to somehow use local signals to approximate local behaviour that's helpful on a global scale. That's why they use Hebbian learning in the paper (what fires together, wires together), but it's tricky to get right and I haven't personally seen examples that scale to systems/problems of "interesting" sizes. This is basically the frontier of the field: we need local, but generalizable, learning rules that are stable across time and compose freely into higher-order systems.

    Regarding educational material, I'm afraid I haven't seen great entries for learning about SNNs in full generality. I co-author a simulator (https://github.com/norse/norse/) based on PyTorch with a few notebook tutorials (https://github.com/norse/notebooks) that may be helpful.

    I'm actually working on some open resources/course material for neuromorphic computing. So if you have any wishes/ideas, please do reach out. Like, what would a newcomer be looking for specifically?

  • [D] The Complete Guide to Spiking Neural Networks
    3 projects | /r/MachineLearning | 10 Apr 2023
    Surrogate gradients and BPTT, this is what is implemented in Norse https://github.com/Norse/Norse. It is also possible to compute exact gradients using the Eventprop algorithm.
  • Don't Mess with Backprop: Doubts about Biologically Plausible Deep Learning
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 15 Feb 2021
    That repo is slightly outdated, development now continues at https://github.com/norse/norse.
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