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is that possible to create an spiking auto-encoder with nengo #103

Closed ati6868 closed 4 years ago

ati6868 commented 5 years ago

Hi In nengo , how can i implement autoencoder in spiking neural networks is that possible in nengo?

drasmuss commented 5 years ago

There's an example of implementing an autoencoder in Nengo here https://www.nengo.ai/nengo-dl/examples/from-tensorflow.html

ati6868 commented 5 years ago

Thank you very much for your response @drasmuss but one question this link that you sent me ,is an autoencoder in spiking neural networks?? i guess it's not and if it's not , do you have any idea how to convert it to an autoencoder in SNNs??

drasmuss commented 5 years ago

Yes, you would need to change the neuron model from nengo.RectifiedLinear to a spiking neuron model (e.g. nengo.SpikingRectifiedLinear), and then you would need to make sure that you are running the network for multiple timesteps during inference/evaluation. Basically the same as this example https://www.nengo.ai/nengo-dl/examples/spiking-mnist.html, but you're training an autoencoder instead of a classification network. But there's nothing qualitatively different about training an autoencoder, it's just a different network structure and training data.

drasmuss commented 4 years ago

Closing this since it seems like the question is answered, but if you have any other questions feel free to stop by the forum and we can help out!