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An exploratory study of learning a neural network for categorisation shows that commonly used leaky integrate and fire neurons and Hebbian learning can be effective. The system learns with a standard spike timing dependent plasticity Hebbian learning rule. A two layer feed forward topology is used with a presentation mechanism of inputs followed by outputs a simulated ms. later to learn Iris flower and Breast Cancer Tumour Malignancy categorisers. An exploration of parameters indicates how this may be applied to other tasks.
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Huyck, C. (2020). Learning Categories with Spiking Nets and Spike Timing Dependent Plasticity. In: Bramer, M., Ellis, R. (eds) Artificial Intelligence XXXVII. SGAI 2020. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12498. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-63799-6_10
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