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Inducing brain-like sleep in an artificial spiking neural network helps it to keep learning without “catastrophic forgetting”

11.10.22 | PLOS

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Inducing brain-like sleep in an artificial spiking neural network helps it to keep learning without “catastrophic forgetting”
Representation of memories in an abstract synaptic space and its evolution with and without sleep. Credit: Golden R, Delanois JE, Sanda P, and Bazhenov M, 2022, PLOS Computational Biology, CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

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Article URL: https://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1010628

Article Title: Sleep prevents catastrophic forgetting in spiking neural networks by forming a joint synaptic weight representation

Author Countries : United States, Czech Republic

Funding: This study was supported by ONR (N00014-16-1-2829 to MB), Lifelong Learning Machines program from DARPA/MTO (HR0011-18-2-0021 to MB), NSF (IIS-1724405 to MB), and NIH (1RF1MH117155 to MB; 1R01MH125557 to MB; 1R01NS109553 to MB). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.

PLOS Computational Biology

10.1371/journal.pcbi.1010628

Computational simulation/modeling

Not applicable

Competing interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Keywords

Artificial Neural Networks Machine Learning Sleep

Article Information

Journal
PLOS Computational Biology
DOI
10.1371/journal.pcbi.1010628
Method of Research
Computational simulation/modeling
Subject of Research
Not applicable
COI Statement
Competing interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Contact Information

Claire Turner
PLOS
ploscompbiolpress@plos.org

How to Cite This Article

APA:
PLOS. (2022, November 10). Inducing brain-like sleep in an artificial spiking neural network helps it to keep learning without “catastrophic forgetting”. Brightsurf News. https://www.brightsurf.com/news/1EOP7D3L/inducing-brain-like-sleep-in-an-artificial-spiking-neural-network-helps-it-to-keep-learning-without-catastrophic-forgetting.html
MLA:
"Inducing brain-like sleep in an artificial spiking neural network helps it to keep learning without “catastrophic forgetting”." Brightsurf News, Nov. 10 2022, https://www.brightsurf.com/news/1EOP7D3L/inducing-brain-like-sleep-in-an-artificial-spiking-neural-network-helps-it-to-keep-learning-without-catastrophic-forgetting.html.