Journal
EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATION
Volume 29, Issue 3, Pages 391-414Publisher
MIT PRESS
DOI: 10.1162/evco_a_00286
Keywords
Interpretable synaptic plasticity rules; Hebbian learning; evolving networks; continuous learning; evolution of learning
Funding
- European Union [665347]
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The study aims to discover interpretable local Hebbian learning rules, optimize them using genetic algorithms to achieve autonomous global learning in two tasks, and eventually converge into a set of well-defined interpretable types.
A fundamental aspect of learning in biological neural networks is the plasticity property which allows them to modify their configurations during their lifetime. Hebbian learning is a biologically plausible mechanism for modeling the plasticity property in artificial neural networks (ANNs), based on the local interactions of neurons. However, the emergence of a coherent global learning behavior from local Hebbian plasticity rules is not very well understood. The goal of this work is to discover interpretable local Hebbian learning rules that can provide autonomous global learning. To achieve this, we use a discrete representation to encode the learning rules in a finite search space. These rules are then used to perform synaptic changes, based on the local interactions of the neurons. We employ genetic algorithms to optimize these rules to allow learning on two separate tasks (a foraging and a prey-predator scenario) in online lifetime learning settings. The resulting evolved rules converged into a set of well-defined interpretable types, that are thoroughly discussed. Notably, the performance of these rules, while adapting the ANNs during the learning tasks, is comparable to that of offline learning methods such as hill climbing.
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