Spike-Timing Dependent Plasticity and Mutual Information Maximization for a Spiking Neuron Model

Abstract

We derive an optimal learning rule in the sense of mutual information maximization for a spiking neuron model. Under the assumption of small fluctuations of the input, we find a spike-timing dependent plas- ticity (STDP) function which depends on the time course of excitatory postsynaptic potentials (EPSPs) and the autocorrelation function of the postsynaptic neuron. We show that the STDP function has both positive and negative phases. The positive phase is related to the shape of the EPSP while the negative phase is controlled by neuronal refractoriness.

Cite

Text

Toyoizumi et al. "Spike-Timing Dependent Plasticity and Mutual Information Maximization for a Spiking Neuron Model." Neural Information Processing Systems, 2004.

Markdown

[Toyoizumi et al. "Spike-Timing Dependent Plasticity and Mutual Information Maximization for a Spiking Neuron Model." Neural Information Processing Systems, 2004.](https://mlanthology.org/neurips/2004/toyoizumi2004neurips-spiketiming/)

BibTeX

@inproceedings{toyoizumi2004neurips-spiketiming,
  title     = {{Spike-Timing Dependent Plasticity and Mutual Information Maximization for a Spiking Neuron Model}},
  author    = {Toyoizumi, Taro and Pfister, Jean-pascal and Aihara, Kazuyuki and Gerstner, Wulfram},
  booktitle = {Neural Information Processing Systems},
  year      = {2004},
  pages     = {1409-1416},
  url       = {https://mlanthology.org/neurips/2004/toyoizumi2004neurips-spiketiming/}
}