<> "The repository administrator has not yet configured an RDF license."^^ . <> . . "Computing with noise in spiking neural networks"^^ . "Trial-to-trial variability is an ubiquitous characteristic in neural firing patterns and is\r\noften regarded as a side-effect of intrinsic noise. Increasing evidence indicates that this\r\nvariability is a signature of network computation. The computational role of noise is not\r\nyet clear and existing frameworks use abstract models for stochastic computation. In\r\nthis work, we use networks of spiking neurons to perform stochastic inference by sam-\r\npling. We provide a novel analytical description of the neural response function with an\r\nunprecedented range of validity. This description enables an implementation of spiking\r\nnetworks in simulations to sample from Boltzmann distributions. We show the robust-\r\nness of these networks to parameter variations and highlight the substantial advantages\r\nof short-term plasticity in our framework. We demonstrate accelerated inference on neu-\r\nromorphic hardware with a speed-up of 10^4 compared to biological networks, regardless\r\nof network size. We further explore the role of noise as a computational component in\r\nour sampling networks and identify the functional equivalence between synaptic connec-\r\ntions and mutually shared noise. Based on this, we implement interconnected sampling\r\nensembles which exploit their activity as noise resource to maintain a stochastic firing\r\nregime."^^ . "2017" . . . . . . . "Ilja"^^ . "Bytschok"^^ . "Ilja Bytschok"^^ . . . . . . "Computing with noise in spiking neural networks (PDF)"^^ . . . "main_bytschok.pdf"^^ . . . "Computing with noise in spiking neural networks (Other)"^^ . . . . . . "indexcodes.txt"^^ . . . "Computing with noise in spiking neural networks (Other)"^^ . . . . . . "lightbox.jpg"^^ . . . "Computing with noise in spiking neural networks (Other)"^^ . . . . . . "preview.jpg"^^ . . . "Computing with noise in spiking neural networks (Other)"^^ . . . . . . "medium.jpg"^^ . . . "Computing with noise in spiking neural networks (Other)"^^ . . . . . . "small.jpg"^^ . . "HTML Summary of #22716 \n\nComputing with noise in spiking neural networks\n\n" . "text/html" . . . "530 Physik"@de . "530 Physics"@en . .