{"about":{"site":"https://codewithpapers.app","non_affiliation":"Code with Papers and Syntology are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Papers with Code, Meta, or the pwc-archive mirror.","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","attribution":"https://codewithpapers.app/attribution","modified":"archive material modified by Syntology; see the attribution page"},"url":"/paper/smooth-exact-gradient-descent-learning-in","title":"Smooth Exact Gradient Descent Learning in Spiking Neural Networks","arxiv_id":"2309.14523","date":"2023-09-25","proceeding":null,"authors":["Christian Klos","Raoul-Martin Memmesheimer"],"abstract":"Gradient descent prevails in artificial neural network training, but seems inept for spiking neural networks as small parameter changes can cause sudden, disruptive (dis-)appearances of spikes. Here, we demonstrate exact gradient descent based on continuously changing spiking dynamics. These are generated by neuron models whose spikes vanish and appear at the end of a trial, where it cannot influence subsequent dynamics. This also enables gradient-based spike addition and removal. We illustrate our scheme with various tasks and setups, including recurrent and deep, initially silent networks.","url_abs":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.14523v2","url_pdf":"https://arxiv.org/pdf/2309.14523v2.pdf","source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","row_kind":"abstracts"},"code_links":[{"paper_slug":"smooth-exact-gradient-descent-learning-in","repo_url":"https://github.com/chklos/spikegd","is_official":1,"mentioned_in_paper":1,"mentioned_in_github":1,"framework":"jax","reach":null}],"tasks":[],"methods":[],"datasets_introduced":[],"methods_introduced":[],"results":[],"syntology":{"atlas_url":null,"mcp":null,"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers"},"arxiv_metadata":null,"syntology_extracted_results":null}