Biologically Inspired Mechanisms for Facilitating Grokking in Multilayer Perceptrons
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arXiv:2607. 11666v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Grokking is a phenomenon in which neural networks initially memorize training data and only later exhibit strong generalization after prolonged optimization.
arXiv:2606. 00073v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We investigate how internal representations emerge across hierarchical processing systems by introducing a neuroscience-inspired framework for analyzing deep spiking neural networks (SNN) through the lens of functional connectivity.
The paper proposes a biologically inspired micro‑sleep technique called napping for recurrent spiking neural networks, combining proportional weight scaling with continuous stochastic membrane activity. Experiments on an unsupervised SNN trained with trace‑based STDP on Gabor‑preprocessed MNIST show that well‑tuned napping can match the classification accuracy of conventional weight normalization while offering different clustering characteristics. The study suggests that napping may be preferable when representational structure is more important than raw classification speed, despite its higher simulation cost.
arXiv:2606. 14975v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: How the wiring and functional organization of cortex shape recurrent computation remains a central question in both neuroscience and machine learning.
arXiv:2606. 30444v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Neural networks are known to be susceptible to over-reliance on spurious correlations.
arXiv:2606. 03935v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The ability to train spiking neural networks is essential for modeling biological neural networks as well as for neuromorphic computing.