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Spiking neural P systems with structural plasticity and weights.

Guimin Ning¹, Shihan Huang², Yang Deng²

¹School of Information Engineering, Chengdu Industry and Trade College, Chengdu, 611731, Sichuan, PR China.

|October 9, 2025

Summary

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Spiking neural P systems with structural plasticity and weights (SNP-SPW) demonstrate computational universality. A small system with nine neurons can compute all Turing-computable functions, advancing neural computing models.

Keywords:

Membrane computing Spiking neural P systems Structural plasticity Universality Weight

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Area of Science:

Computational intelligence
Theoretical computer science
Computational neuroscience

Background:

Spiking neural (SN) P systems are bio-inspired computational models.
Existing models explore computational capabilities and universality.
Biological neural systems offer mechanisms for advanced computation.

Purpose of the Study:

To introduce Spiking Neural P systems with structural plasticity and weights (SNP-SPW) systems.
To investigate the computational power of these new systems.
To demonstrate their potential for efficient computation.

Main Methods:

Integrating structural plasticity and synaptic weights in synchronous SN P systems.
Utilizing plasticity spiking rules for dynamic architecture modification and spike generation.
Analyzing the systems' ability to generate number sets and compute functions.

Main Results:

SNP-SPW systems achieve computational universality, generating all recursively enumerable sets.
Demonstrated a small universal SNP-SPW system with only nine neurons.
Showcased the modulation of spike reception by synaptic weights.

Conclusions:

SNP-SPW systems are computationally universal.
The developed system offers a compact and powerful model for computation.
This research advances the field of bio-inspired computing and neural P systems.