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Many activity dependent learning rules have been proposed in order to model long-term potentiation (LTP). Our aim is to derive a spike time dependent learning rule from a probabilistic optimality criterion. Our approach allows us to obtain quantitative results in terms of a learning window. This is done by maximising a given likelihood function with respect to the synaptic weights. The resulting weight adaptation is compared with experimental results.
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Pfister, JP., Barber, D., Gerstner, W. (2003). Optimal Hebbian Learning: A Probabilistic Point of View. In: Kaynak, O., Alpaydin, E., Oja, E., Xu, L. (eds) Artificial Neural Networks and Neural Information Processing — ICANN/ICONIP 2003. ICANN ICONIP 2003 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2714. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-44989-2_12
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