FitzHugh-Nagumo neuron

ADVANTAGES0 · dim 2

SolvSRK wins. At the comparison noise level, SolvSRK beats the best baseline by at least 10 percentage points of survival, or by at least 0.05 balanced score when survival is tied. Use SolvSRK for this class of problem. All verdicts →

2-state excitable neuron model; fast-slow timescale separation

Oscillators & nonlinear dynamics

Problem definition

Canonical benchmark implementation

Canonical RHS excerpt from the registered callable used for this benchmark cell. Expand it to verify the state equations; it is not a standalone runnable fixture.

Show canonical RHS excerpt
def _fhn_rhs(t, y, a=0.7, b=0.8, tau=12.5, I_ext=0.5):
    v, w = y
    return np.array([(v - v**3 / 3 - w + I_ext), (v + a - b * w) / tau])

def rhs(t, y):
    return _fhn_rhs(t, y)
Parameters
  • a = 0.7
  • b = 0.8
  • tau = 12.5
  • I_ext = 0.5
Initial condition
y(0) = [-1, 1]
Horizon
t ∈ [0, 50]

Canonical RHS excerpt captured from the same registered callable used for the published benchmark. Frozen closure values are summarized below; helper imports and solver settings are intentionally omitted.

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Spread: low

Default noise: none

Recommendation snapshot

Clean best: Vern9

Noisy best: SolvSRK

Coverage

14 solver arms · clean + 5 noise levels

Ranked on survival, precision, and speed

Versions & freeze

Methodology →
Freeze
2026-08-13
libsolvsrk
2.3.0
SciPy
1.14
SUNDIALS
CVODE (bundled backend)

20 seeds/cell default · 14 arms · TRL 4–5 · simulation-lab validated · this page: FitzHugh-Nagumo neuron (fitzhugh-nagumo-neuron)

Governed SolvTune benchmark freeze; per-arm medians only. RHS definitions and raw trial rows are not published.

Self-reported by Resonix Labs · not independently verified

Results matrix

Pick an objective and a noise level to rank all arms on survival, median SCD, median nfev, and median wall time. Medians across seeds.

Objective

Best overall trade-off of survival, precision, and speed.

Noise level

#SolverSurvivalSCDnfevWallScore
1Vern9external
100%
10.01,5383.91 s0.856
2SolvSRK
100%
9.82,6386 ms0.853
3SciPy RadauSciPy
100%
9.84,17077 ms0.853
4Vern7external
100%
9.21,3923.77 s0.838
5Tsit5external
100%
8.71,506807 ms0.827
6SciPy RK45SciPy
100%
8.41,61010 ms0.820
7SciPy DOP853SciPy
100%
7.81,2867 ms0.805
8SciPy BDFSciPy
100%
7.41,86452 ms0.795
9SciPy LSODASciPy
100%
7.18613 ms0.788
10CVODE BDFexternal
100%
7.069711 ms0.784
11FBDFexternal
100%
6.71,4934.86 s0.779
12SciPy RK23SciPy
100%
6.55,00339 ms0.774
13CVODE Adamsexternal
100%
6.374811 ms0.769
14TRBDF2external
100%
4.55,9914.95 s0.726

At Clean, best balanced arm is Vern9 · SolvSRK survival 100%, SCD 9.8.

Values are medians across seeds, measured by Resonix Labs on Resonix hardware and not independently verified; nfev and wall are on reference lab hardware (indicative). Under injected noise only SolvSRK and the SciPy arms are run. How we measure accuracy → · Verification status →

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Cite this page

Replace the access date. Pin the freeze ID and library versions when comparing against a later export. Cite it as what it is — a self-reported vendor benchmark, not an independently verified result. The note field says so; please keep it.

@misc{resonix_evidence_fitzhugh_nagumo_neuron_2026,
  title        = {Resonix Evidence Portal: FitzHugh-Nagumo neuron},
  author       = {{Resonix Labs (Canada) Inc.}},
  year         = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://resonix.tech/evidence/problems/fitzhugh-nagumo-neuron}},
  note         = {Self-reported vendor benchmark; internally generated by Resonix Labs and not independently verified. Accessed YYYY-MM-DD. Freeze 2026-08-13; libsolvsrk 2.3.0; SciPy 1.14.}
}

Related

TRL 4–5 · simulation-lab validated · 398 problems · 14 solver arms · clean + 5 noise levels

Freeze: 2026-08-13 · scipy 1.14 · libsolvsrk 2.3.0 · Methodology

Self-reported by Resonix Labs · not independently verified · Verification status