Improvement of learning performance of multi-layer perceptron by two different pulse glial networks

A glia is the most number of nervous cells in a brain. The glia is investigated in a medical field, because the glia correlates to neuron works and composes a human cerebration. We consider that the glia function can be applied to an artificial neural network. In this study, we propose the Multi-Layer Perceptron (MLP) with the two different pulse glial networks. The proposed MLP has the glial network which is inspired from biological functions of the glia. One neuron is connected with two glias. Two glias generate the pulse depending on the output neurons. One glia connects the neuron for increasing the output of neuron. On the other hand, the glia connects the neuron for decreasing the output of neuron. Both glias composes the glial networks. These effects are propagated into the networks. The glial effects become complexity and affects the MLP learning performance. By the computer simulation, we confirm that the learning performance of the proposed MLP is better than the conventional MLP.

[1]  S Kriegler,et al.  Calcium signaling of glial cells along mammalian axons , 1993, The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience.

[2]  Geoffrey E. Hinton,et al.  Learning representations by back-propagating errors , 1986, Nature.

[3]  Alfonso Araque,et al.  Glial calcium signaling and neuron-glia communication. , 2005, Cell calcium.

[4]  Mark P Mattson,et al.  Neuronal and glial calcium signaling in Alzheimer's disease. , 2003, Cell calcium.

[5]  Seiji Ozawa,et al.  [Role of glutamate transporters in excitatory synapses in cerebellar Purkinje cells]. , 2007, Brain and nerve = Shinkei kenkyu no shinpo.

[6]  S. Koizumi,et al.  Dynamic inhibition of excitatory synaptic transmission by astrocyte-derived ATP in hippocampal cultures , 2003, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.

[7]  Yoshifumi Nishio,et al.  Multi-Layer Perceptron with positive and negative pulse glial chain for solving two-spirals problem , 2012, The 2012 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN).

[8]  P. Haydon Glia: listening and talking to the synapse , 2001, Nature Reviews Neuroscience.