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Main Authors: Tambaş, Başer, Subaşı, A. Levent, Kabakçıoğlu, Alkan
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Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.06902
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author Tambaş, Başer
Subaşı, A. Levent
Kabakçıoğlu, Alkan
author_facet Tambaş, Başer
Subaşı, A. Levent
Kabakçıoğlu, Alkan
contents In biological systems, neuromodulation tunes synaptic plasticity based on the internal state of the organism, complementing stimulus-driven Hebbian learning. The algorithm recently proposed by Krotov and Hopfield \cite{krotov_2019} can be utilized to mirror this process in artificial neural networks, where its built-in intra-layer competition and selective inhibition of synaptic updates offer a cost-effective remedy for the lack of lateral connections through a simplified attention mechanism. We demonstrate that KH-modulated RBMs outperform standard (shallow) RBMs in both reconstruction and classification tasks, offering a superior trade-off between generalization performance and model size, with the additional benefit of robustness to weight initialization as well as to overfitting during training.
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spellingShingle Neuromodulation via Krotov-Hopfield Improves Accuracy and Robustness of RBMs
Tambaş, Başer
Subaşı, A. Levent
Kabakçıoğlu, Alkan
Disordered Systems and Neural Networks
In biological systems, neuromodulation tunes synaptic plasticity based on the internal state of the organism, complementing stimulus-driven Hebbian learning. The algorithm recently proposed by Krotov and Hopfield \cite{krotov_2019} can be utilized to mirror this process in artificial neural networks, where its built-in intra-layer competition and selective inhibition of synaptic updates offer a cost-effective remedy for the lack of lateral connections through a simplified attention mechanism. We demonstrate that KH-modulated RBMs outperform standard (shallow) RBMs in both reconstruction and classification tasks, offering a superior trade-off between generalization performance and model size, with the additional benefit of robustness to weight initialization as well as to overfitting during training.
title Neuromodulation via Krotov-Hopfield Improves Accuracy and Robustness of RBMs
topic Disordered Systems and Neural Networks
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.06902