リカレントスパイキングニューラルネットワークにおける仮眠パラダイムの探求
Exploring napping paradigm for Recurrent Spiking Neural Networks
生物の睡眠に着想を得た「仮眠」機構(重みの比例スケーリングと膜電位ノイズ)をリカレントSNNに適用し、重み正規化と同等の精度を保ちつつモデル複雑性を低減できることを示した。
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著者: Andreas Massey, Stefano Nichele, Aliaksandr Hubin
分類: cs.LG
原文アブストラクト
Biological organisms minimize free energy by balancing two competing demands on their internal world model: it must be accurate enough to predict sensory input, yet simple enough to generalize beyond it. Two mechanisms regulate this balance offline: sleep reduces complexity through gradual synaptic downscaling, while stochastic noise attenuates precision, relaxing the constraint sensory input imposes on synaptic reorganization. Engineered Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) leave this balance unaddressed, favoring instantaneous, noiseless weight normalization instead. This paper investigates the hypothesis that a biologically inspired micro-sleep paradigm, napping -- combining proportional weight scaling with continuous stochastic membrane activity -- can replicate the stability of normalization while shedding model complexity. We evaluate this in an unsupervised recurrent SNN trained via trace-based spike-timing-dependent plasticity (STDP) on Gabor-preprocessed MNIST. We tune napping across three regularization regimes by sweeping its duration and membrane noise level, then compare the best configuration against weight normalization. Across all three regimes, well-tuned napping matches the accuracy of normalization: accuracy peaks at brief durations and low noise, then declines monotonically as either grows. Clustering diverges, with the strongest geometric separation arising at longer durations and higher noise -- the two terms of free energy pulling apart, accuracy rewarding data fit and structure rewarding the simpler representation that gradual, noisy downscaling induces. This gain carries a simulation cost normalization avoids, so napping is most compelling where representational structure, rather than raw classification efficiency, is the priority.