Integration of Contrastive Predictive Coding and Spiking Neural Networks
This work addresses the problem of enhancing biological plausibility in neural networks for researchers in computational neuroscience and machine learning, but it is incremental as it combines existing methods.
The study tackled the integration of Contrastive Predictive Coding (CPC) with Spiking Neural Networks (SNN) to create a more biologically plausible predictive coding model, achieving a high classification rate on the MNIST dataset for distinguishing sequential samples.
This study examines the integration of Contrastive Predictive Coding (CPC) with Spiking Neural Networks (SNN). While CPC learns the predictive structure of data to generate meaningful representations, SNN mimics the computational processes of biological neural systems over time. In this study, the goal is to develop a predictive coding model with greater biological plausibility by processing inputs and outputs in a spike-based system. The proposed model was tested on the MNIST dataset and achieved a high classification rate in distinguishing positive sequential samples from non-sequential negative samples. The study demonstrates that CPC can be effectively combined with SNN, showing that an SNN trained for classification tasks can also function as an encoding mechanism. Project codes and detailed results can be accessed on our GitHub page: https://github.com/vnd-ogrenme/ongorusel-kodlama/tree/main/CPC_SNN