A Synaptic Neural Network and Synapse Learning

Chang Li

Abstract: A Synaptic Neural Network (SynaNN) consists of synapses and neurons. Inspired by the synapse research of neuroscience, we built a synapse model with a nonlinear synapse function of excitatory and inhibitory channel probabilities. Introduced the concept of surprisal space and constructed a commutative diagram, we proved that the inhibitory probability function -log(1-exp(-x)) in surprisal space is the topologically conjugate function of the inhibitory complementary probability 1-x in probability space. Furthermore, we found that the derivative of the synapse over the parameter in the surprisal space is equal to the negative Bose-Einstein distribution. In addition, we constructed a fully connected synapse graph (tensor) as a synapse block of a synaptic neural network. Moreover, we proved the gradient formula of a cross-entropy loss function over parameters, so synapse learning can work with the gradient descent and backpropagation algorithms. In the proof-of-concept experiment, we performed an MNIST training and testing on the MLP model with synapse network as hidden layers.

Keywords: synaptic neural network, surprisal, synapse, probability, excitation, inhibition, synapse learning, bose-einstein distribution, tensor, gradient, loss function, mnist, topologically conjugate

TL;DR: A synaptic neural network with synapse graph and learning that has the feature of topological conjugation and Bose-Einstein distribution in surprisal space.