Towards Understanding the Effect of Leak in Spiking Neural Networks

Understand

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) are being explored to emulate the astounding capabilities of human brain that can learn and compute functions robustly and efficiently with noisy spiking activities.

• A variety of spiking neuron models have been proposed to resemble biological neuronal functionalities.
• With varying levels of bio-fidelity, these models often contain a leak path in their internal states, called membrane potentials.
• While the leaky models have been argued as more bioplausible, a comparative analysis between models with and without leak from a purely computational point of view demands attention.