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1. Engineering › Advanced Memory and Neural Computing

   Event-based backpropagation can compute exact gradients for spiking neural networks

   Wunderlich and Pehle · Scientific Reports · 2021

   The paper derives backpropagation for continuous-time spiking neural networks without approximations, calling it EventProp, and uses it to train networks on Yin-Yang and MNIST with competitive performance.

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   1. Supported · 71%EventProp, a new algorithm, passes error signals back at spike times to compute exact gradients in spiking neural networks, using sparse, event-based steps.“This algorithm, EventProp, backpropagates errors at spike times in order to compute the exact gradient in an event-based, temporally and spatially sparse fashion.”