Robust boosting algorithm against mislabeling in multiclass problems.

abstract：:We investigated a model for the neural integrator based on hysteretic units connected by positive feedback. Hysteresis is assumed to emerge from the intrinsic properties of the cells. We consider the recurrent networks containing either bistable or multistable neurons. We apply our analysis to the oculomotor velocity-...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Nikitchenko M,Koulakov A

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We propose a scalable semiparametric Bayesian model to capture dependencies among multiple neurons by detecting their cofiring (possibly with some lag time) patterns over time. After discretizing time so there is at most one spike at each interval, the resulting sequence of 1s (spike) and 0s (silence) for each neuron ...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Shahbaba B,Zhou B,Lan S,Ombao H,Moorman D,Behseta S

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this letter, a standard postnonlinear blind source separation algorithm is proposed, based on the MISEP method, which is widely used in linear and nonlinear independent component analysis. To best suit a wide class of postnonlinear mixtures, we adapt the MISEP method to incorporate a priori information of the mixtu...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Zheng CH,Huang DS,Li K,Irwin G,Sun ZL

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We derive solutions for the problem of missing and noisy data in nonlinear time&hyphenseries prediction from a probabilistic point of view. We discuss different approximations to the solutions &hyphen in particular, approximations that require either stochastic simulation or the substitution of a single estimate for t...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Tresp V V,Hofmann R

更新日期：1998-03-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Many neurons that initially respond to a stimulus stop responding if the stimulus is presented repeatedly but recover their response if a different stimulus is presented. This phenomenon is referred to as stimulus-specific adaptation (SSA). SSA has been investigated extensively using oddball experiments, which measure...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Mill R,Coath M,Wennekers T,Denham SL

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a model of short-term synaptic depression that is derived from a circuit implementation. The dynamics of this circuit model is similar to the dynamics of some theoretical models of short-term depression except that the recovery dynamics of the variable describing the depression is nonlinear and it also dep...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Boegerhausen M,Suter P,Liu SC

更新日期：2003-02-01 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：:A minimal model is presented to explain changes in frequency, shape, and amplitude of Ca2+ oscillations in the neuroendocrine melanotrope cell of Xenopus Laevis. It describes the cell as a plasma membrane oscillator with influx of extracellular Ca2+ via voltage-gated Ca2+ channels in the plasma membrane. The Ca2+ osci...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Cornelisse LN,Scheenen WJ,Koopman WJ,Roubos EW,Gielen SC

更新日期：2001-01-01 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：:The visual systems of many mammals, including humans, are able to integrate the geometric information of visual stimuli and perform cognitive tasks at the first stages of the cortical processing. This is thought to be the result of a combination of mechanisms, which include feature extraction at the single cell level ...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Cocci G,Barbieri D,Citti G,Sarti A

更新日期：2015-06-01 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：:Decision making is a complex task, and its underlying mechanisms that regulate behavior, such as the implementation of the coupling between physiological states and neural networks, are hard to decipher. To gain more insight into neural computations underlying ongoing binary decision-making tasks, we consider a neural...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Bose T,Reina A,Marshall JAR

更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The double traveling salesman problem is a variation of the basic traveling salesman problem where targets can be reached by two salespersons operating in parallel. The real problem addressed by this work concerns the optimization of the harvest sequence for the two independent arms of a fruit-harvesting robot. This a...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Plebe A,Anile AM

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When subjects adapt their reaching movements in the setting of a systematic force or visual perturbation, generalization of adaptation can be assessed psychophysically in two ways: by testing untrained locations in the work space at the end of adaptation (slow postadaptation generalization) or by determining the influ...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Tanaka H,Krakauer JW,Sejnowski TJ

更新日期：2012-04-01 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 formulate an equivalence between machine learning and the formulation of statistical data assimilation as used widely in physical and biological sciences. The correspondence is that layer number in a feedforward artificial network setting is the analog of time in the data assimilation setting. This connection has b...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Abarbanel HDI,Rozdeba PJ,Shirman S

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A key problem in computational neuroscience is to find simple, tractable models that are nevertheless flexible enough to capture the response properties of real neurons. Here we examine the capabilities of recurrent point process models known as Poisson generalized linear models (GLMs). These models are defined by a s...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Weber AI,Pillow JW

更新日期：2017-12-01 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：:We outline a hybrid analog-digital scheme for computing with three important features that enable it to scale to systems of large complexity: First, like digital computation, which uses several one-bit precise logical units to collectively compute a precise answer to a computation, the hybrid scheme uses several moder...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Sarpeshkar R,O'Halloran M

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Controlling for multiple hypothesis tests using standard spike resampling techniques often requires prohibitive amounts of computation. Importance sampling techniques can be used to accelerate the computation. The general theory is presented, along with specific examples for testing differences across conditions using...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Harrison MT

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Hebbian paradigm is perhaps the best-known unsupervised learning theory in connectionism. It has inspired wide research activity in the artificial neural network field because it embodies some interesting properties such as locality and the capability of being applicable to the basic weight-and-sum structure of ne...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Fiori S

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ramping neuronal activity refers to spiking activity with a rate that increases quasi-linearly over time. It has been observed in multiple cortical areas and is correlated with evidence accumulation processes or timing. In this work, we investigated the downstream effect of ramping neuronal activity through synapses t...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Wei W,Wang XJ

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Energy-efficient information transmission may be relevant to biological sensory signal processing as well as to low-power electronic devices. We explore its consequences in two different regimes. In an "immediate" regime, we argue that the information rate should be maximized subject to a power constraint, and in an "...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Balasubramanian V,Kimber D,Berry MJ 2nd

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a graphical model framework for decoding in the visual ERP-based speller system. The proposed framework allows researchers to build generative models from which the decoding rules are obtained in a straightforward manner. We suggest two models for generating brain signals conditioned on the stimulus events....

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Martens SM,Mooij JM,Hill NJ,Farquhar J,Schölkopf B

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a system for the automatic interpretation of cluttered scenes containing multiple partly occluded objects in front of unknown, complex backgrounds. The system is based on an extended elastic graph matching algorithm that allows the explicit modeling of partial occlusions. Our approach extends an earlier sys...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Eckes C,Triesch J,von der Malsburg C

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A mathematical theory of interacting hypercolumns in primary visual cortex (V1) is presented that incorporates details concerning the anisotropic nature of long-range lateral connections. Each hypercolumn is modeled as a ring of interacting excitatory and inhibitory neural populations with orientation preferences over...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Bressloff PC,Cowan JD

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The goal of sufficient dimension reduction in supervised learning is to find the low-dimensional subspace of input features that contains all of the information about the output values that the input features possess. In this letter, we propose a novel sufficient dimension-reduction method using a squared-loss variant...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Suzuki T,Sugiyama M

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

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：:Learning in a neuronal network is often thought of as a linear superposition of synaptic modifications induced by individual stimuli. However, since biological synapses are naturally bounded, a linear superposition would cause fast forgetting of previously acquired memories. Here we show that this forgetting can be av...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Senn W,Fusi S

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relationship between a neuron's complex inputs and its spiking output defines the neuron's coding strategy. This is frequently and effectively modeled phenomenologically by one or more linear filters that extract the components of the stimulus that are relevant for triggering spikes and a nonlinear function that r...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Famulare M,Fairhall A

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00