Effects of fast presynaptic noise in attractor neural networks.

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：:This article presents a reinforcement learning framework for continuous-time dynamical systems without a priori discretization of time, state, and action. Based on the Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) equation for infinite-horizon, discounted reward problems, we derive algorithms for estimating value functions and improv...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Doya K

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A hierarchical dynamical map is proposed as the basic framework for sensory cortical mapping. To show how the hierarchical dynamical map works in cognitive processes, we applied it to a typical cognitive task known as priming, in which cognitive performance is facilitated as a consequence of prior experience. Prior to...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Hoshino O,Inoue S,Kashimori Y,Kambara T

更新日期：2001-08-01 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：:The richness and complexity of recurrent cortical circuits is an inexhaustible source of inspiration for thinking about high-level biological computation. In past theoretical studies, constraints on the synaptic connection patterns of threshold-linear networks were found that guaranteed bounded network dynamics, conve...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Hahnloser RH,Seung HS,Slotine JJ

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neural associative memories are perceptron-like single-layer networks with fast synaptic learning typically storing discrete associations between pairs of neural activity patterns. Previous work optimized the memory capacity for various models of synaptic learning: linear Hopfield-type rules, the Willshaw model employ...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Knoblauch A

更新日期：2011-06-01 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：:Inner-product operators, often referred to as kernels in statistical learning, define a mapping from some input space into a feature space. The focus of this letter is the construction of biologically motivated kernels for cortical activities. The kernels we derive, termed Spikernels, map spike count sequences into an...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Shpigelman L,Singer Y,Paz R,Vaadia E

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We study the expressive power of positive neural networks. The model uses positive connection weights and multiple input neurons. Different behaviors can be expressed by varying the connection weights. We show that in discrete time and in the absence of noise, the class of positive neural networks captures the so-call...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Ameloot TJ,Van den Bussche J

更新日期：2015-12-01 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：:Independent component analysis (ICA) finds a linear transformation to variables that are maximally statistically independent. We examine ICA and algorithms for finding the best transformation from the point of view of maximizing the likelihood of the data. In particular, we discuss the way in which scaling of the unmi...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Everson R,Roberts S

更新日期：1999-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Cortical neurons of behaving animals generate irregular spike sequences. Recently, there has been a heated discussion about the origin of this irregularity. Softky and Koch (1993) pointed out the inability of standard single-neuron models to reproduce the irregularity of the observed spike sequences when the model par...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Shinomoto S,Sakai Y,Funahashi S

更新日期：1999-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The expected free energy (EFE) is a central quantity in the theory of active inference. It is the quantity that all active inference agents are mandated to minimize through action, and its decomposition into extrinsic and intrinsic value terms is key to the balance of exploration and exploitation that active inference...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Millidge B,Tschantz A,Buckley CL

更新日期：2021-01-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Much experimental evidence suggests that during decision making, neural circuits accumulate evidence supporting alternative options. A computational model well describing this accumulation for choices between two options assumes that the brain integrates the log ratios of the likelihoods of the sensory inputs given th...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Kurzawa N,Summerfield C,Bogacz R

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Field models provide an elegant mathematical framework to analyze large-scale patterns of neural activity. On the microscopic level, these models are usually based on either a firing-rate picture or integrate-and-fire dynamics. This article shows that in spite of the large conceptual differences between the two types ...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Cremers D,Herz AV

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We develop several kernel methods for classification of longitudinal data and apply them to detect cognitive decline in the elderly. We first develop mixed-effects models, a type of hierarchical empirical Bayes generative models, for the time series. After demonstrating their utility in likelihood ratio classifiers (a...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Lu Z,Leen TK,Kaye J

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We derive a synaptic weight update rule for learning temporally precise spike train-to-spike train transformations in multilayer feedforward networks of spiking neurons. The framework, aimed at seamlessly generalizing error backpropagation to the deterministic spiking neuron setting, is based strictly on spike timing ...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Banerjee A

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article addresses the topic of extracting logical rules from data by means of artificial neural networks. The approach based on piecewise linear neural networks is revisited, which has already been used for the extraction of Boolean rules in the past, and it is shown that this approach can be important also for t...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Holena M

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this review, we compare methods for temporal sequence learning (TSL) across the disciplines machine-control, classical conditioning, neuronal models for TSL as well as spike-timing-dependent plasticity (STDP). This review introduces the most influential models and focuses on two questions: To what degree are reward...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Wörgötter F,Porr B

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The need to reason about uncertainty in large, complex, and multimodal data sets has become increasingly common across modern scientific environments. The ability to transform samples from one distribution P to another distribution

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Mesa DA,Tantiongloc J,Mendoza M,Kim S,P Coleman T

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For any memoryless communication channel with a binary-valued input and a one-dimensional real-valued output, we introduce a probabilistic lower bound on the mutual information given empirical observations on the channel. The bound is built on the Dvoretzky-Kiefer-Wolfowitz inequality and is distribution free. A quadr...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： VanderKraats ND,Banerjee A

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A conductance-based model of Na+ and K+ currents underlying action potential generation is introduced by simplifying the quantitative model of Hodgkin and Huxley (HH). If the time course of rate constants can be approximated by a pulse, HH equations can be solved analytically. Pulse-based (PB) models generate action p...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Destexhe A

更新日期：1997-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As neural activity is transmitted through the nervous system, neuronal noise degrades the encoded information and limits performance. It is therefore important to know how information loss can be prevented. We study this question in the context of neural population codes. Using Fisher information, we show how informat...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Renart A,van Rossum MC

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Real classification problems involve structured data that can be essentially grouped into a relatively small number of clusters. It is shown that, under a local clustering condition, a set of points of a given class, embedded in binary space by a set of randomly parameterized surfaces, is linearly separable from other...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Baram Y

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pairwise correlations among spike trains recorded in vivo have been frequently reported. It has been argued that correlated activity could play an important role in the brain, because it efficiently modulates the response of a postsynaptic neuron. We show here that a neuron's output firing rate critically depends on t...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Kuhn A,Aertsen A,Rotter S

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a previous article, we considered game trees as graphical models. Adopting an evaluation function that returned a probability distribution over values likely to be taken at a given position, we described how to build a model of uncertainty and use it for utility-directed growth of the search tree and for deciding o...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Baum EB,Smith WD

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spiking neural P systems (SN P systems) are a class of distributed parallel computing devices inspired by spiking neurons, where the spiking rules are usually used in a sequential way (an applicable rule is applied one time at a step) or an exhaustive way (an applicable rule is applied as many times as possible at a s...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Zhang X,Wang B,Pan L

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One standard interpretation of networks of cortical neurons is that they form dynamical attractors. Computations such as stimulus estimation are performed by mapping inputs to points on the networks' attractive manifolds. These points represent population codes for the stimulus values. However, this standard interpret...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Moazzezi R,Dayan P

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A firing rate map, also known as a tuning curve, describes the nonlinear relationship between a neuron's spike rate and a low-dimensional stimulus (e.g., orientation, head direction, contrast, color). Here we investigate Bayesian active learning methods for estimating firing rate maps in closed-loop neurophysiology ex...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Park M,Weller JP,Horwitz GD,Pillow JW

更新日期：2014-08-01 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