Stochastic Neuron Model with Dynamic Synapses and Evolution Equation of Its Density Function

In most neural network models, neurons are viewed as the only computational units, while the synapses are treated as passive scalar parameters (weights). It has, however, long been recognized that biological synapses can exhibit rich temporal dynamics. These dynamics may have important consequences for computing and learning in biological neural systems. This paper proposes a novel stochastic model of single neuron with synaptic dynamics, which is characterized by several stochastic differential equations. From this model, we obtain the evolution equation of their density function. Furthermore, we give an approach to cut the evolution equation of the high dimensional function down to the evolution equation of one dimension function.

Authors and Affiliations

1. Institute of Intelligent Information Processing and Key Laboratory of Radar, Signal Processing, Xidian University, Xi’an, 710071, China

   Wentao Huang, Licheng Jiao & Maoguo Gong

2. Signal and Information Processing Laboratory, Avionic Engineering Department, College of Engineering, Air Force Engineering University, Xi’an, 710038, China

   Wentao Huang & Yuelei Xu

Editors and Affiliations

1. School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Block S1, Nanyang Avenue, 639798, Singapore

   Lipo Wang

2. School of Software, Sun Yat-Sen University, 510275, Guangzhou, China

   Ke Chen

3. School of Computer Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, BLK N4, 2b-39, Nanyang Avenue, 639798, Singapore

   Yew Soon Ong

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