Context Gating in Spiking Neural Networks: Achieving Lifelong Learning through Integration of Local and Global Plasticity

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Hauptverfasser: Shen, Jiangrong, Ni, Wenyao, Xu, Qi, Pan, Gang, Tang, Huajin
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author Shen, Jiangrong
Ni, Wenyao
Xu, Qi
Pan, Gang
Tang, Huajin
author_facet Shen, Jiangrong
Ni, Wenyao
Xu, Qi
Pan, Gang
Tang, Huajin
contents Humans learn multiple tasks in succession with minimal mutual interference, through the context gating mechanism in the prefrontal cortex (PFC). The brain-inspired models of spiking neural networks (SNN) have drawn massive attention for their energy efficiency and biological plausibility. To overcome catastrophic forgetting when learning multiple tasks in sequence, current SNN models for lifelong learning focus on memory reserving or regularization-based modification, while lacking SNN to replicate human experimental behavior. Inspired by biological context-dependent gating mechanisms found in PFC, we propose SNN with context gating trained by the local plasticity rule (CG-SNN) for lifelong learning. The iterative training between global and local plasticity for task units is designed to strengthen the connections between task neurons and hidden neurons and preserve the multi-task relevant information. The experiments show that the proposed model is effective in maintaining the past learning experience and has better task-selectivity than other methods during lifelong learning. Our results provide new insights that the CG-SNN model can extend context gating with good scalability on different SNN architectures with different spike-firing mechanisms. Thus, our models have good potential for parallel implementation on neuromorphic hardware and model human's behavior.
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spellingShingle Context Gating in Spiking Neural Networks: Achieving Lifelong Learning through Integration of Local and Global Plasticity
Shen, Jiangrong
Ni, Wenyao
Xu, Qi
Pan, Gang
Tang, Huajin
Neural and Evolutionary Computing
Human-Computer Interaction
Humans learn multiple tasks in succession with minimal mutual interference, through the context gating mechanism in the prefrontal cortex (PFC). The brain-inspired models of spiking neural networks (SNN) have drawn massive attention for their energy efficiency and biological plausibility. To overcome catastrophic forgetting when learning multiple tasks in sequence, current SNN models for lifelong learning focus on memory reserving or regularization-based modification, while lacking SNN to replicate human experimental behavior. Inspired by biological context-dependent gating mechanisms found in PFC, we propose SNN with context gating trained by the local plasticity rule (CG-SNN) for lifelong learning. The iterative training between global and local plasticity for task units is designed to strengthen the connections between task neurons and hidden neurons and preserve the multi-task relevant information. The experiments show that the proposed model is effective in maintaining the past learning experience and has better task-selectivity than other methods during lifelong learning. Our results provide new insights that the CG-SNN model can extend context gating with good scalability on different SNN architectures with different spike-firing mechanisms. Thus, our models have good potential for parallel implementation on neuromorphic hardware and model human's behavior.
title Context Gating in Spiking Neural Networks: Achieving Lifelong Learning through Integration of Local and Global Plasticity
topic Neural and Evolutionary Computing
Human-Computer Interaction
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.01883