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BrainScale

Scalable Online Learning for Brain Dynamics

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brainscale provides online learning algorithms for biological neural networks. It has been integrated into our establishing brain modeling ecosystem.

Installation

brainscale can run on Python 3.10+ installed on Linux, MacOS, and Windows. You can install brainscale via pip:

pip install brainscale --upgrade

Alternatively, you can install BrainX, which bundles brainscale with other compatible packages for a comprehensive brain modeling ecosystem:

pip install BrainX -U

Documentation

The official documentation is hosted on Read the Docs: https://brainscale.readthedocs.io

Citation

If you use this package in your research, please cite:

@article {Wang2024.09.24.614728,
	author = {Wang, Chaoming and Dong, Xingsi and Ji, Zilong and Jiang, Jiedong and Liu, Xiao and Wu, Si},
	title = {BrainScale: Enabling Scalable Online Learning in Spiking Neural Networks},
	elocation-id = {2024.09.24.614728},
	year = {2025},
	doi = {10.1101/2024.09.24.614728},
	publisher = {Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory},
	URL = {https://www.biorxiv.org/content/early/2025/07/27/2024.09.24.614728},
	eprint = {https://www.biorxiv.org/content/early/2025/07/27/2024.09.24.614728.full.pdf},
	journal = {bioRxiv}
}

See also the ecosystem

brainscale is one part of our brain simulation ecosystem: https://brainmodeling.readthedocs.io/

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