CANT

• We've been developing a system for almost 20 years called CANT.
• CANT is written in Java, and is based around a fatiguing leaky integrate and fire neural model.
• The lab is using it, so a quick description of the classes is relevant.
• The main class is CANT23. It contains a CANTNet, and a CANTExperiment. (You can subclass these to make new systems.)
• The network contains CANTNeuron-s, that have Synapse-s.
• The CANTExperiment contains CANTPattern-s.
• There are a few user interface classes (CANTFRame, CANTMenuItem, and Matrix).
• You can set the parameters by the interface or by the xml file (Param.xml).
• What happens is the system runs through a series of cycles.
• You might externally activate a neuron (the patterns),
• or activation may spread from already fired neurons to other neurons.
• You can also turn learning on, so that the syanpses change.
• One simple experiment is to get the 10x10 default network to learn the categories of top 50 neurons and bottom 50 neurons.