Learning with delayed synaptic plasticity

Autor: Giovanni Iacca, Decebal Constantin Mocanu, Anil Yaman, Mykola Pechenizkiy, George H. L. Fletcher
Přispěvatelé: Integrated Circuits, Database Group, Data Mining
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2019
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Zdroj: GECCO 2019-Proceedings of the 2019 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, 152-160
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Popis: The plasticity property of biological neural networks allows them to perform learning and optimize their behavior by changing their configuration. Inspired by biology, plasticity can be modeled in artificial neural networks by using Hebbian learning rules, i.e. rules that update synapses based on the neuron activations and reinforcement signals. However, the distal reward problem arises when the reinforcement signals are not available immediately after each network output to associate the neuron activations that contributed to receiving the reinforcement signal. In this work, we extend Hebbian plasticity rules to allow learning in distal reward cases. We propose the use of neuron activation traces (NATs) to provide additional data storage in each synapse to keep track of the activation of the neurons. Delayed reinforcement signals are provided after each episode relative to the networks' performance during the previous episode. We employ genetic algorithms to evolve delayed synaptic plasticity (DSP) rules and perform synaptic updates based on NATs and delayed reinforcement signals. We compare DSP with an analogous hill climbing algorithm that does not incorporate domain knowledge introduced with the NATs, and show that the synaptic updates performed by the DSP rules demonstrate more effective training performance relative to the HC algorithm.
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Databáze: OpenAIRE