Patent Document ID: 9189730
Application ID: 13623801
Patent Flag: 1

Claim One:
1. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having instructions embodied thereon, the instructions being executable by one or more processors to perform a control of an exploration by a spiking neuron, the instructions when executed, configured to cause the one or more processors to: operate the spiking neuron in accordance with a reinforcement learning process characterized by a stochasticity level and a response generation probability; evaluate a performance metric of the reinforcement learning process, the performance metric being indicative of a relation between a present process outcome and a target outcome; and based on the performance metric, adjust the stochasticity level to effectuate the control of the exploration; wherein: the performance metric comprises a distance measure between the present process outcome and the target outcome; the evaluation of the performance metric comprises a comparison of the performance metric to a performance value; and the adjustment of the stochasticity level comprises a decrease in the stochasticity level when the performance metric is above the performance value.