Dynamics of adaptive recurrent neural networks

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2023
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Fox, David
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University College Cork
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In this thesis a simple, phenomenological model of a neural network with plasticity is presented in the form of a slow-fast adaptive dynamical recurrent neural network. The plasticity rule is chosen from the class of Hebbian learning rules, in which the synaptic connection between two neurons evolves continuously as a function of their correlation in the recent past. Initially an analysis of networks of two neurons is presented, which exhibit relaxation oscillations in which one neuron switches between an ’off’ state, where it takes a negative value, and an ’on’ state, where it takes a positive value, while the other neuron stays in one on/off state. Then, by means of an example with a nine neuron network, the system is shown to exhibit both stable frequency cluster synchronization and transient frequency cluster synchronization.
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Nonlinear dynamics , Bifurcation theory , Dynamical systems , Computaional neuroscience , Neural networks , Recurrent neural networks , Synchronization , Slow-fast systems , Multiple timescales , Adaptive dynamical networks
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Fox, D. 2023. Dynamics of adaptive recurrent neural networks. MSc Thesis, University College Cork.
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