Frontiers in Neural Circuits (Jan 2024)

Topological data analysis of the firings of a network of stochastic spiking neurons

  • Xiaotian Bai,
  • Chaojun Yu,
  • Jian Zhai

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3389/fncir.2023.1308629
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 17

Abstract

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Topological data analysis is becoming more and more popular in recent years. It has found various applications in many different fields, for its convenience in analyzing and understanding the structure and dynamic of complex systems. We used topological data analysis to analyze the firings of a network of stochastic spiking neurons, which can be in a sub-critical, critical, or super-critical state depending on the value of the control parameter. We calculated several topological features regarding Betti curves and then analyzed the behaviors of these features, using them as inputs for machine learning to discriminate the three states of the network.

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