Analysis of Synaptic Weight Distribution in an Izhikevich Network

Izhikevich network is a relatively new neuronal network, which consists of cortical spiking model neurons with axonal conduction delays and spike-timingdependent plasticity (STDP) with hard bound adaptation. In this work, we use uniform and Gaussian distributions respectively to initialize the weights of all excitatory neurons. After the network undergoes a few minutes of STDP adaptation, we can see that the weights of all synapses in the network, for both initial weight distributions, form a bimodal distribution, and numerically the established distribution presents dynamic stability.

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