A neural-network-based approach to the double traveling salesman problem.

abstract：:Attractor networks are widely believed to underlie the memory systems of animals across different species. Existing models have succeeded in qualitatively modeling properties of attractor dynamics, but their computational abilities often suffer from poor representations for realistic complex patterns, spurious attract...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Hu X,Zhang B

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Under the goal-driven paradigm, Yamins et al. ( 2014 ; Yamins & DiCarlo, 2016 ) have shown that by optimizing only the final eight-way categorization performance of a four-layer hierarchical network, not only can its top output layer quantitatively predict IT neuron responses but its penultimate layer can also automat...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Dong Q,Wang H,Hu Z

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The perceptron (also referred to as McCulloch-Pitts neuron, or linear threshold gate) is commonly used as a simplified model for the discrimination and learning capability of a biological neuron. Criteria that tell us when a perceptron can implement (or learn to implement) all possible dichotomies over a given set of ...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Legenstein R,Maass W

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent experimental and computational evidence suggests that several dynamical properties may characterize the operating point of functioning neural networks: critical branching, neutral stability, and production of a wide range of firing patterns. We seek the simplest setting in which these properties emerge, clarify...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Cayco-Gajic NA,Shea-Brown E

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability to encode and transmit a signal is an essential property that must demonstrate many neuronal circuits in sensory areas in addition to any processing they may provide. It is known that an appropriate level of lateral inhibition, as observed in these areas, can significantly improve the encoding ability of a...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Coulon A,Beslon G,Soula HA

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The motion of an object (such as a wheel rotating) is seen as consistent independent of its position and size on the retina. Neurons in higher cortical visual areas respond to these global motion stimuli invariantly, but neurons in early cortical areas with small receptive fields cannot represent this motion, not only...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Rolls ET,Stringer SM

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this letter, we investigate the impact of choosing different loss functions from the viewpoint of statistical learning theory. We introduce a convexity assumption, which is met by all loss functions commonly used in the literature, and study how the bound on the estimation error changes with the loss. We also deriv...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Rosasco L,De Vito E,Caponnetto A,Piana M,Verri A

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To exhibit social intelligence, animals have to recognize whom they are communicating with. One way to make this inference is to select among internal generative models of each conspecific who may be encountered. However, these models also have to be learned via some form of Bayesian belief updating. This induces an i...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Isomura T,Parr T,Friston K

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lossy compression and clustering fundamentally involve a decision about which features are relevant and which are not. The information bottleneck method (IB) by Tishby, Pereira, and Bialek ( 1999 ) formalized this notion as an information-theoretic optimization problem and proposed an optimal trade-off between throwin...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Strouse DJ,Schwab DJ

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Different analytical expressions for the membrane potential distribution of membranes subject to synaptic noise have been proposed and can be very helpful in analyzing experimental data. However, all of these expressions are either approximations or limit cases, and it is not clear how they compare and which expressio...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Rudolph M,Destexhe A

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a recent paper, Poggio and Girosi (1990) proposed a class of neural networks obtained from the theory of regularization. Regularized networks are capable of approximating arbitrarily well any continuous function on a compactum. In this paper we consider in detail the learning problem for the one-dimensional case. W...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Corradi V,White H

更新日期：1995-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Perceiving and identifying an object is improved by prior exposure to the object. This perceptual priming phenomenon is accompanied by reduced neural activity. But whether suppression of neuronal activity with priming is responsible for the improvement in perception is unclear. To address this problem, we developed a ...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Moldakarimov S,Bazhenov M,Sejnowski TJ

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The dynamic formation of groups of neurons--neuronal assemblies--is believed to mediate cognitive phenomena at many levels, but their detailed operation and mechanisms of interaction are still to be uncovered. One hypothesis suggests that synchronized oscillations underpin their formation and functioning, with a focus...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Moioli RC,Husbands P

更新日期：2013-11-01 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：: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：:This article addresses the relationship between long-term reward predictions and slow-timescale neural activity in temporal difference (TD) models of the dopamine system. Such models attempt to explain how the activity of dopamine (DA) neurons relates to errors in the prediction of future rewards. Previous models have...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Daw ND,Touretzky DS

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this letter, we develop a gaussian process model for clustering. The variances of predictive values in gaussian processes learned from a training data are shown to comprise an estimate of the support of a probability density function. The constructed variance function is then applied to construct a set of contours ...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Kim HC,Lee J

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multiple adjacent, roughly mirror-image topographic maps are commonly observed in the sensory neocortex of many species. The cortical regions occupied by these maps are generally believed to be determined initially by genetically controlled chemical markers during development, with thalamocortical afferent activity su...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Schulz R,Reggia JA

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We propose a novel paradigm for spike train decoding, which avoids entirely spike sorting based on waveform measurements. This paradigm directly uses the spike train collected at recording electrodes from thresholding the bandpassed voltage signal. Our approach is a paradigm, not an algorithm, since it can be used wit...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Ventura V

更新日期：2008-04-01 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：:Theories of learning and generalization hold that the generalization bias, defined as the difference between the training error and the generalization error, increases on average with the number of adaptive parameters. This article, however, shows that this general tendency is violated for a gaussian mixture model. Fo...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Akaho S,Kappen HJ

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A neuronal population is a computational unit that receives a multivariate, time-varying input signal and creates a related multivariate output. These neural signals are modeled as stochastic processes that transmit information in real time, subject to stochastic noise. In a stationary environment, where the input sig...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Leugering J,Pipa G

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We considered a gamma distribution of interspike intervals as a statistical model for neuronal spike generation. A gamma distribution is a natural extension of the Poisson process taking the effect of a refractory period into account. The model is specified by two parameters: a time-dependent firing rate and a shape p...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Miura K,Okada M,Amari S

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The problem of designing input signals for optimal generalization is called active learning. In this article, we give a two-stage sampling scheme for reducing both the bias and variance, and based on this scheme, we propose two active learning methods. One is the multipoint search method applicable to arbitrary models...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Sugiyama M,Ogawa H

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Independent component analysis (ICA) aims at separating a multivariate signal into independent nongaussian signals by optimizing a contrast function with no knowledge on the mixing mechanism. Despite the availability of a constellation of contrast functions, a Hartley-entropy-based ICA contrast endowed with the discri...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Selvan SE,George ST,Balakrishnan R

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Visual navigation requires the estimation of self-motion as well as the segmentation of objects from the background. We suggest a definition of local velocity gradients to compute types of self-motion, segment objects, and compute local properties of optical flow fields, such as divergence, curl, and shear. Such veloc...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Raudies F,Ringbauer S,Neumann H

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We study the emergence of synchronized burst activity in networks of neurons with spike adaptation. We show that networks of tonically firing adapting excitatory neurons can evolve to a state where the neurons burst in a synchronized manner. The mechanism leading to this burst activity is analyzed in a network of inte...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： van Vreeswijk C,Hansel D

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this letter, we propose a noisy nonlinear version of independent component analysis (ICA). Assuming that the probability density function (p. d. f.) of sources is known, a learning rule is derived based on maximum likelihood estimation (MLE). Our model involves some algorithms of noisy linear ICA (e. g., Bermond & ...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Maeda S,Song WJ,Ishii S

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent experiments indicate that the calcium store (e.g., endoplasmic reticulum) is involved in electrical bursting and [Ca2+]i oscillation in bursting neuronal cells. In this paper, we formulate a mathematical model for bursting neurons, which includes Ca2+ in the intracellular Ca2+ stores and a voltage-independent c...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Chay TR

更新日期：1996-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The bias/variance decomposition of mean-squared error is well understood and relatively straightforward. In this note, a similar simple decomposition is derived, valid for any kind of error measure that, when using the appropriate probability model, can be derived from a Kullback-Leibler divergence or log-likelihood. ...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Heskes T

更新日期：1998-07-28 00:00:00