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Predictive Coding Light.

Antony W N'dri¹, Thomas Barbier¹, Céline Teulière¹

¹Université Clermont Auvergne, Clermont Auvergne INP, CNRS, Institut Pascal, F-63000 Clermont-Ferrand, France.

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This study introduces Predictive Coding Light (PCL), a novel spiking neural network for energy-efficient learning. PCL suppresses predictable spikes, enabling efficient information processing in both artificial and biological neural networks.

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Area of Science:

Neuroscience
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning

Background:

Current machine learning systems are highly energy-intensive compared to biological brains.
Neuromorphic systems aim to reduce energy consumption by mimicking the brain's spiking neuron information coding.
Effective learning strategies for energy-efficient processing in spiking neural networks remain an open challenge.

Purpose of the Study:

To propose Predictive Coding Light (PCL), a novel recurrent hierarchical spiking neural network.
To enable unsupervised representation learning with enhanced energy efficiency.
To investigate biologically plausible learning rules for spiking neural networks.

Main Methods:

Developed Predictive Coding Light (PCL), a recurrent hierarchical spiking neural network.
Implemented a novel predictive coding approach that suppresses predictable spikes instead of transmitting prediction errors.
Utilized biologically plausible spike-timing based learning rules.

Main Results:

PCL achieves unsupervised representation learning by transmitting a compressed input representation.
The model successfully reproduces findings on information processing in the visual cortex.
PCL demonstrates strong performance in downstream classification tasks.

Conclusions:

PCL offers a new, energy-efficient approach to predictive coding in spiking neural networks.
The proposed method is implementable in both artificial and natural neural systems.
This work advances the understanding of efficient information processing in neural networks.