Learning the shape of synaptic plasticity rules for neuronal architectures and function through machine learning.

Project Information

SynapSeek

Grant agreement ID: 819603

DOI

10.3030/819603

Project closed

EC signature date 16 May 2019

Start date 1 June 2019

End date 31 May 2025

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 1 798 605,00

EU contribution

€ 1 798 605,00

Coordinated by

INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AUSTRIA
Austria

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Publications

Peer reviewed articles (5)

Indistinguishable network dynamics can emerge from unalike plasticity rules

Author(s): Poornima Ramesh, Basile Confavreux, Pedro J. Gonçalves, Tim P. Vogels, Jakob H. Macke
Published in: eLife, 2025, ISSN 2050-084X
Publisher: eLife Sciences Publications
DOI: 10.7554/elife.94411.1

Co-dependent excitatory and inhibitory plasticity accounts for quick, stable and long-lasting memories in biological networks

Author(s): Agnes, Everton J., Vogels, Tim
Published in: Nature Neuroscience, 2024, ISSN 1097-6256
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41593-024-01597-4

The Remarkable Robustness of Surrogate Gradient Learning for Instilling Complex Function in Spiking Neural Networks

Author(s): Friedemann Zenke, Tim P. Vogels
Published in: Neural Computation, Issue 33 (4), 2021, Page(s) 899–925., ISSN 0899-7667
Publisher: MIT Press
DOI: 10.1162/neco_a_01367

Training deep neural density estimators to identify mechanistic models of neural dynamics

Author(s): Pedro J Gonçalves, Jan-Matthis Lueckmann, Michael Deistler, Marcel Nonnenmacher, Kaan Öcal, Giacomo Bassetto, Chaitanya Chintaluri, William F Podlaski, Sara A Haddad, Tim P Vogels, David S Greenberg, Jakob H Macke
Published in: eLife, Issue 9, 2020, Page(s) all, ISSN 2050-084X
Publisher: eLife Sciences Publications
DOI: 10.7554/elife.56261

Complementary Inhibitory Weight Profiles Emerge from Plasticity and Allow Flexible Switching of Receptive Fields

Author(s): Everton J. Agnes, Andrea I. Luppi and Tim P. Vogels
Published in: The Journal of Neuroscience, 2020, ISSN 1529-2401
Publisher: Journal of Neuroscience
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.0276-20.2020

Conference proceedings (3)

Meta-learning families of plasticity rules in recurrent spiking networks using simulation-based inference

Author(s): Basile Confavreux, Poormina Ramesh, Pedro J. Goncalves, Jakob H. Macke, Tim Vogels
Published in: In Proceedings of the 37th International Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS '23), 2023, Page(s) Article 597, 13545–13558
Publisher: Curran Associates Inc.
DOI: 10.5555/3666122.3666719

Online Learning Of Neural Computations From Sparse Temporal Feedback

Author(s): L Braun, T Vogels
Published in: NeurIPS 2021, 2020
Publisher: Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 34

A meta-learning approach to (re)discover plasticity rules that carve a desired function into a neural network

Author(s): Basile Confavreux, Friedemann Zenke, Everton Agnes, Timothy Lillicrap, Tim Vogels,
Published in: NeurIPS 2020, Issue 2020, 2020
Publisher: Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 33
DOI: 10.1101/2020.10.24.353409

Other (1)

Developmentally-regulated impairment of parvalbumin interneuron synaptic transmission in an experimental model of Dravet syndrome

Author(s): Keisuke Kaneko, Christopher B Currin, Kevin M Goff, Ala Somarowthu, Tim P Vogels, Ethan M Goldberg
Published in: Submitted to review, currently a preprint, 2022
Publisher: Elsevier
DOI: 10.1101/2021.07.28.454042

Thesis and dissertations (1)

Synapseek: Meta-learning synaptic plasticity rules

Author(s): Confavreux, Basile J
Published in: 2023
Publisher: ISTA Graduate School

Non-peer reviewed articles (1)

Memory by a thousand rules: Automated discovery of multi-type plasticity rules reveals variety & degeneracy at the heart of learning

Author(s): Basile Confavreux, Zoe P. M. Harrington, Maciej Kania, Poornima Ramesh, Anastasia N. Krouglova, Panos A. Bozelos, Jakob H. Macke, Andrew M. Saxe, Pedro J. Gonçalves, Tim P. Vogels
Published in: bioRxiv, 2025, ISSN 2692-8205
Publisher: openRxiv
DOI: 10.1101/2025.05.28.656584