2023/04/03 by Daniel J. Mannion, Mannion, Daniel John, Anthony J. Kenyon +1
Computer Science · Engineering · Neuroscience · #Advanced Memory and Neural Computing #Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS) #Emerging Technologies (cs.ET) #FOS: Computer and information sciences #FOS: Electrical engineering #Neural Networks and Reservoir Computing #Neural and Evolutionary Computing (cs.NE) #Neural dynamics and brain function #electronic engineering #information engineering
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2304.00951
openalex publication_date 2023/04/03 · openalex created_date 2023/04/06 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Bio-inspired computing has focused on neuron and synapses with great success. However, the connections between these, the dendrites, also play an important role. In this paper, we investigate the motivation for replicating dendritic computation and present a framework to guide future attempts in their construction. The framework identifies key properties of the dendrites and presents and example of dendritic computation in the task of sound localisation. We evaluate the impact of dendrites on an BiLSTM neural network's performance, finding that dendrite pre-processing reduce the size of network required for a threshold performance.