Simulation of spiking neural networks (SNNs) using PyTorch.
This release summarizes the last changes and improvements in 0.3.1
Thanks for everyone involved with this release! @danielgafni, @ArefAz , @hafezgh, @amirHossein-Ebrahimi,
This release summarizes the last changes and improvements in 0.3.0
Thanks for everyone involved with this release! @het-25 @mahbodnr @petermarathas @cearlUmass @kamue1a @SimonInParis @danielgafni
This release summarizes the last changes and improvements in 0.2.9
Thanks for all the contributors!
This release summarizes the last changes and improvements in 0.2.8
We know we have some open issues, feel free to give a hand.
This release emphasizes performance enhancements, reordering the examples, and several bug fixes.
This release accompanies our draft submission to Frontiers in Neuroinformatics. It features a number of bug fixes and example scripts used in drafting the paper.
This small release features:
CurrentLIFNodes
)After a few missteps in the PyPI distribution process, we are proud to annouce the release of BindsNET v0.1! We will likely follow up with a series of incremental releases (v0.1.x) to address bugs found by users, or add small-scale features that we may have missed.
This release features the network
core functionality of the package, which enables the construction and simulation of spiking neural networks (SNNs). The Network
object may be composed of any number of Nodes
, Connection
s, and / or Monitors
, of which there several varieties. Learning on Connection
objects is implemented by specifying functions from the learning
module. Popular machine learning (ML) datasets may be loaded using datasets
, which can be converted into spike trains (like any other numerical data) with encoding
.
An interface into the Open AI gym
reinforcement learning (RL) library is implemented using the environments
module, allowing for the first time easy experimentation with SNNs on RL problems.
To eliminate messy implementation details, a Pipeline
object is provided (in the pipeline
module) which simulates altogether the interaction between a spiking neural network and a dataset or environments. This saves users from having to write long scripts to run experiments on supported datasets or RL environments.
Plotting functionality is available in the analysis.plotting
and analysis.visualization
modules. The former is typically used for plotting "online" during simulation, and the latter, "offline", for studying long-term network behavior or making figures.
Other modules exist in a developmental or low-user / low-priority state.
This depends largely on the users and in particular the needs of the BINDS lab. Some things we would personally like to see include:
torch.nn.functional
module (e.g., convolution, pooling, activation functions, etc.), or conforming our network API to that of torch
's neural network API.Nodes
(neuron) types, Connection
types, Dataset
s, learning
functions, and more. In particular, we want to take steps towards making SNNs robust for ML / RL.Cheers, @djsaunde