Random embedding machines for pattern recognition.

abstract：:We present a first-order nonhomogeneous Markov model for the interspike-interval density of a continuously stimulated spiking neuron. The model allows the conditional interspike-interval density and the stationary interspike-interval density to be expressed as products of two separate functions, one of which describes...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Tapson J,Jin C,van Schaik A,Etienne-Cummings R

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spiking neural networks (SNNs) with the event-driven manner of transmitting spikes consume ultra-low power on neuromorphic chips. However, training deep SNNs is still challenging compared to convolutional neural networks (CNNs). The SNN training algorithms have not achieved the same performance as CNNs. In this letter...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Chen R,Li L

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies have employed simple linear dynamical systems to model trial-by-trial dynamics in various sensorimotor learning tasks. Here we explore the theoretical and practical considerations that arise when employing the general class of linear dynamical systems (LDS) as a model for sensorimotor learning. In this ...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Cheng S,Sabes PN

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Based on the dopamine hypotheses of cocaine addiction and the assumption of decrement of brain reward system sensitivity after long-term drug exposure, we propose a computational model for cocaine addiction. Utilizing average reward temporal difference reinforcement learning, we incorporate the elevation of basal rewa...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Dezfouli A,Piray P,Keramati MM,Ekhtiari H,Lucas C,Mokri A

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inspired by recent studies regarding dendritic computation, we constructed a recurrent neural network model incorporating dendritic lateral inhibition. Our model consists of an input layer and a neuron layer that includes excitatory cells and an inhibitory cell; this inhibitory cell is activated by the pooled activiti...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Morita K,Okada M,Aihara K

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pharmacologically isolated GABAergic irregular spiking and stuttering interneurons in the mouse visual cortex display highly irregular spike times, with high coefficients of variation approximately 0.9-3, in response to a depolarizing, constant current input. This is in marked contrast to cortical pyramidal cells, whi...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Englitz B,Stiefel KM,Sejnowski TJ

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this article, a biologically plausible and efficient object recognition system (called ORASSYLL) is introduced, based on a set of a priori constraints motivated by findings of developmental psychology and neurophysiology. These constraints are concerned with the organization of the input in local and corresponding ...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Krüger N

更新日期：2001-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tangential neurons in the fly brain are sensitive to the typical optic flow patterns generated during egomotion. In this study, we examine whether a simplified linear model based on the organization principles in tangential neurons can be used to estimate egomotion from the optic flow. We present a theory for the cons...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Franz MO,Chahl JS,Krapp HG

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Synaptic runaway denotes the formation of erroneous synapses and premature functional decline accompanying activity-dependent learning in neural networks. This work studies synaptic runaway both analytically and numerically in binary-firing associative memory networks. It turns out that synaptic runaway is of fairly m...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Greenstein-Messica A,Ruppin E

更新日期：1998-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The statistical dependencies that independent component analysis (ICA) cannot remove often provide rich information beyond the linear independent components. It would thus be very useful to estimate the dependency structure from data. While such models have been proposed, they have usually concentrated on higher-order...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Sasaki H,Gutmann MU,Shouno H,Hyvärinen A

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present formal specification and verification of a robot moving in a complex network, using temporal sequence learning to avoid obstacles. Our aim is to demonstrate the benefit of using a formal approach to analyze such a system as a complementary approach to simulation. We first describe a classical closed-loop si...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Kirwan R,Miller A,Porr B,Di Prodi P

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this note, we demonstrate that the high firing irregularity produced by the leaky integrate-and-fire neuron with the partial somatic reset mechanism, which has been shown to be the most likely candidate to reflect the mechanism used in the brain for reproducing the highly irregular cortical neuron firing at high ra...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Christodoulou C,Cleanthous A

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe an analytical framework for the adaptations of neural systems that adapt its internal structure on the basis of subjective probabilities constructed by computation of randomly received input signals. A principled approach is provided with the key property that it defines a probability density model that al...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Khaikine M,Holthausen K

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recurrent neural networks (RNNs) can learn to perform finite state computations. It is shown that an RNN performing a finite state computation must organize its state space to mimic the states in the minimal deterministic finite state machine that can perform that computation, and a precise description of the attracto...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Casey M

更新日期：1996-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:For gradient descent learning to yield connectivity consistent with real biological networks, the simulated neurons would have to include more realistic intrinsic properties such as frequency adaptation. However, gradient descent learning cannot be used straightforwardly with adapting rate-model neurons because the de...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Fortier PA,Guigon E,Burnod Y

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Durbin and Willshaw's elastic net algorithm can find good solutions to the TSP. The purpose of this paper is to point out that for certain ranges of parameter values, the algorithm converges into local minima that do not correspond to valid tours. The key parameter is the ratio governing the relative strengths of the ...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Simmen MW

更新日期：1991-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the past decade the importance of synchronized dynamics in the brain has emerged from both empirical and theoretical perspectives. Fast dynamic synchronous interactions of an oscillatory or nonoscillatory nature may constitute a form of temporal coding that underlies feature binding and perceptual synthesis. The re...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Chawla D,Lumer ED,Friston KJ

更新日期：1999-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:We develop a group-theoretical analysis of slow feature analysis for the case where the input data are generated by applying a set of continuous transformations to static templates. As an application of the theory, we analytically derive nonlinear visual receptive fields and show that their optimal stimuli, as well as...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Sprekeler H,Wiskott L

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) presents a significant health concern with potential persisting deficits that can last decades. Although a growing body of literature improves our understanding of the brain network response and corresponding underlying cellular alterations after injury, the effects of cellular disru...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Gabrieli D,Schumm SN,Vigilante NF,Meaney DF

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Primary visual cortical complex cells are thought to serve as invariant feature detectors and to provide input to higher cortical areas. We propose a single model for learning the connectivity required by complex cells that integrates two factors that have been hypothesized to play a role in the development of invaria...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Chandrapala TN,Shi BE

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article studies a general theory of estimating functions of independent component analysis when the independent source signals are temporarily correlated. Estimating functions are used for deriving both batch and on-line learning algorithms, and they are applicable to blind cases where spatial and temporal probab...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Amari S

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Humans learn categories of complex objects quickly and from a few examples. Random projection has been suggested as a means to learn and categorize efficiently. We investigate how random projection affects categorization by humans and by very simple neural networks on the same stimuli and categorization tasks, and how...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Arriaga RI,Rutter D,Cakmak M,Vempala SS

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In signal restoration by Bayesian inference, one typically uses a parametric model of the prior distribution of the signal. Here, we consider how the parameters of a prior model should be estimated from observations of uncorrupted signals. A lot of recent work has implicitly assumed that maximum likelihood estimation ...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Hyvärinen A

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Experimental studies of reasoning and planned behavior have provided evidence that nervous systems use internal models to perform predictive motor control, imagery, inference, and planning. Classical (model-free) reinforcement learning approaches omit such a model; standard sensorimotor models account for forward and ...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Toussaint M

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We perform a detailed fixed-point analysis of two-unit recurrent neural networks with sigmoid-shaped transfer functions. Using geometrical arguments in the space of transfer function derivatives, we partition the network state-space into distinct regions corresponding to stability types of the fixed points. Unlike in ...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Tino P,Horne BG,Giles CL

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A representational scheme under which the ranking between represented similarities is isomorphic to the ranking between the corresponding shape similarities can support perfectly correct shape classification because it preserves the clustering of shapes according to the natural kinds prevailing in the external world. ...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Edelman S,Duvdevani-Bar S

更新日期：1997-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Natural gradient learning is known to be efficient in escaping plateau, which is a main cause of the slow learning speed of neural networks. The adaptive natural gradient learning method for practical implementation also has been developed, and its advantage in real-world problems has been confirmed. In this letter, w...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Park H,Murata N,Amari S

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Firing rates and synchronous firing are often simultaneously relevant signals, and they independently or cooperatively represent external sensory inputs, cognitive events, and environmental situations such as body position. However, how rates and synchrony comodulate and which aspects of inputs are effectively encoded...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Masuda N

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Linear-nonlinear (LN) models and their extensions have proven successful in describing transformations from stimuli to spiking responses of neurons in early stages of sensory hierarchies. Neural responses at later stages are highly nonlinear and have generally been better characterized in terms of their decoding perfo...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Pagan M,Simoncelli EP,Rust NC

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An iterative reweighted least squares (IRWLS) procedure recently proposed is shown to converge to the support vector machine solution. The convergence to a stationary point is ensured by modifying the original IRWLS procedure. ...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Pérez-Cruz F,Bousoño-Calzón C,Artés-Rodríguez A

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00