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3 claims from 3 papers

1. Engineering › Advanced Memory and Neural Computing

   Loihi: A Neuromorphic Manycore Processor with On-Chip Learning

   Davies, Srinivasa, Lin et al. · IEEE Micro · 2018

   The paper presents Loihi, a 60-mm2 14-nm spiking neural network chip with features such as programmable learning rules, and reports it solving LASSO far more efficiently than a CPU.

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   1. UncheckedLoihi, a neuromorphic chip, solved LASSO problems with over 1,000 times better energy-delay-product than conventional CPU solvers at matched process, voltage and area.“Running a spiking convolutional form of the Locally Competitive Algorithm, Loihi can solve LASSO optimization problems with over three orders of magnitude superior energy-delay-product compared to conventional solvers running on a CPU iso-process/voltage/area.”

2. Engineering › Advanced Memory and Neural Computing

   The Remarkable Robustness of Surrogate Gradient Learning for Instilling Complex Function in Spiking Neural Networks

   Zenke and Vogels · Neural Computation · 2021

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   1. Supported · 71%“We show that surrogate gradient learning is robust to different shapes of underlying surrogate derivatives, but the choice of the derivative's scale can substantially affect learning performance.”

3. Neuroscience › Neural dynamics and brain function

   A reanalysis of “Two types of asynchronous activity in networks of excitatory and inhibitory spiking neurons”

   Engelken, Farkhooi, Hansel, van Vreeswijk and Wolf · F1000Research · 2016

   The authors re-examined spiking and matched rate networks and report that the spiking network shows none of the signs of chaotic instability seen in the rate network.

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   1. Supported · 71%In the spiking network, autocorrelation timescales did not depend on coupling strength, and rate deviations from small input perturbations decayed quickly.“In the spiking network, we found in contrast that the timescale of the autocorrelations is insensitive to the coupling strength and that rate deviations resulting from small input perturbations rapidly decay.”