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2 claims from 2 papers

1. 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.”

2. Engineering › Advanced Memory and Neural Computing

   Accurate and efficient time-domain classification with adaptive spiking recurrent neural networks

   Yin, Corradi and Bohté · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2021

   The paper trains recurrent spiking networks with adaptive neurons using a novel surrogate gradient, reporting leading SNN results on time-domain tasks and theoretically large efficiency gains over RNNs.

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   1. Supported · 71%Recurrent spiking networks with adaptive neurons and a new surrogate gradient reach top SNN results on speech and gesture tasks, beating standard RNNs.“Here, we demonstrate how a novel surrogate gradient combined with recurrent networks of tunable and adaptive spiking neurons yields state-of-the-art for SNNs on challenging benchmarks in the time-domain, like speech and gesture recognition. This also exceeds the performance of standard classical re…”