# Artificial Dendritic Computation: The case for dendrites in neuromorphic circuits

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.00951 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2304.00951/

## Key facts

- Cited by 1 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- First posted on arXiv 3 Apr 2023.

## Built on by (most cited first, 1 of 1)

- [A versatile circuit for emulating active biological dendrites applied to sound localisation and neuron imitation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2311.12861/) (2023)

## Abstract (arXiv)

Bio-inspired computing has focused on neuron and synapses with great success. However, the connections between these, the dendrites, also play an important role. In this paper, we investigate the motivation for replicating dendritic computation and present a framework to guide future attempts in their construction. The framework identifies key properties of the dendrites and presents and example of dendritic computation in the task of sound localisation. We evaluate the impact of dendrites on an BiLSTM neural network's performance, finding that dendrite pre-processing reduce the size of network required for a threshold performance.