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The second is that the number of synaptic connections in these models is an order of magnitude smaller than in an actual neuron. In this research, we push this barrier by incorporating a more accurate model of the synapse and propose a system identification solution that can scale to a network incorporating hundreds of synaptic connections. Although a neuron has hundreds of synaptic connections, only a subset of these connections significantly contributes to its spiking activity. As a result, we assume the synaptic connections are sparse, and to characterize these dynamics, we propose a Bayesian point-process state-space model that lets us incorporate the sparsity of synaptic connections within the regularization technique into our framework. We develop an extended expectation-maximization. algorithm to estimate the free parameters of the proposed model and demonstrate the application of this methodology to the problem of estimating the parameters of many dynamic synaptic connections. We then go through a simulation example consisting of the dynamic synapses across a range of parameter values and show that the model parameters can be estimated using our method. 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