Synapse Competition

[breznak]

@vpuente

On this related note, could you please review the PR for “Synaptic competition on a dendrite”

I understand synaptic competition but looks not very bio-plausible (At least, I couldn’t find any evidence of it). Heterosynaptic plasticity [1] does something like that but this is already in the learning algorithm (is the forget of non active synapses).

[1] W. C. Oh, L. K. Parajuli, and K. Zito, “Heterosynaptic structural plasticity on local dendritic segments of hippocampal CA1 neurons,” Cell Rep. , vol. 10, no. 2, pp. 162–169, 2015.

I’d like to verify this provides significant advantage (eg measured on MNIST)