Normalization enables robust validation of disparity estimates from neural populations.

abstract：:Recent advances in the technology of multiunit recordings make it possible to test Hebb's hypothesis that neurons do not function in isolation but are organized in assemblies. This has created the need for statistical approaches to detecting the presence of spatiotemporal patterns of more than two neurons in neuron sp...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Martignon L,Deco G,Laskey K,Diamond M,Freiwald W,Vaadia E

更新日期：2000-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Characterizing neural spiking activity as a function of intrinsic and extrinsic factors is important in neuroscience. Point process models are valuable for capturing such information; however, the process of fully applying these models is not always obvious. A complete model application has four broad steps: specifica...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Sarma SV,Nguyen DP,Czanner G,Wirth S,Wilson MA,Suzuki W,Brown EN

更新日期：2011-11-01 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：:We show how a Hopfield network with modifiable recurrent connections undergoing slow Hebbian learning can extract the underlying geometry of an input space. First, we use a slow and fast analysis to derive an averaged system whose dynamics derives from an energy function and therefore always converges to equilibrium p...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Galtier MN,Faugeras OD,Bressloff PC

更新日期：2012-09-01 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：: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：:We extend the neural Turing machine (NTM) model into a dynamic neural Turing machine (D-NTM) by introducing trainable address vectors. This addressing scheme maintains for each memory cell two separate vectors, content and address vectors. This allows the D-NTM to learn a wide variety of location-based addressing stra...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Gulcehre C,Chandar S,Cho K,Bengio Y

更新日期：2018-04-01 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：:We present a comprehensive framework of search methods, such as simulated annealing and batch training, for solving nonconvex optimization problems. These methods search a wider range by gradually decreasing the randomness added to the standard gradient descent method. The formulation that we define on the basis of th...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Takase T,Oyama S,Kurihara M

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We show that Langevin Markov chain Monte Carlo inference in an energy-based model with latent variables has the property that the early steps of inference, starting from a stationary point, correspond to propagating error gradients into internal layers, similar to backpropagation. The backpropagated error is with resp...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Bengio Y,Mesnard T,Fischer A,Zhang S,Wu Y

更新日期：2017-03-01 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：:Humans have the ability to learn novel motor tasks while manipulating the environment. Several models of motor learning have been proposed in the literature, but few of them address the problem of retention and interference of motor memory. The modular selection and identification for control (MOSAIC) model, originall...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Lonini L,Dipietro L,Zollo L,Guglielmelli E,Krebs HI

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mutual information between a set of stimuli and the elicited neural responses is compared to the corresponding decoded information. The decoding procedure is presented as an artificial distortion of the joint probabilities between stimuli and responses. The information loss is quantified. Whenever the probabilitie...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Samengo I

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most conventional policy gradient reinforcement learning (PGRL) algorithms neglect (or do not explicitly make use of) a term in the average reward gradient with respect to the policy parameter. That term involves the derivative of the stationary state distribution that corresponds to the sensitivity of its distributio...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Morimura T,Uchibe E,Yoshimoto J,Peters J,Doya K

更新日期：2010-02-01 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：:Activities of sensory-specific cortices are known to be suppressed when presented with a different sensory modality stimulus. This is referred to as cross-modal inhibition, for which the conventional synaptic mechanism is unlikely to work. Interestingly, the cross-modal inhibition could be eliminated when presented wi...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Hoshino O

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This letter proposes a multichannel source separation technique, the multichannel variational autoencoder (MVAE) method, which uses a conditional VAE (CVAE) to model and estimate the power spectrograms of the sources in a mixture. By training the CVAE using the spectrograms of training examples with source-class label...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Kameoka H,Li L,Inoue S,Makino S

更新日期：2019-09-01 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：: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：: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：:Izhikevich (2003) proposed a new canonical neuron model of spike generation. The model was surprisingly simple yet able to accurately replicate the firing patterns of different types of cortical cell. Here, we derive a solution method that allows efficient simulation of the model. ...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Humphries MD,Gurney K

更新日期：2007-12-01 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 past decade has seen a rise of interest in Laplacian eigenmaps (LEMs) for nonlinear dimensionality reduction. LEMs have been used in spectral clustering, in semisupervised learning, and for providing efficient state representations for reinforcement learning. Here, we show that LEMs are closely related to slow fea...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Sprekeler H

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A general method is presented to classify temporal patterns generated by rhythmic biological networks when synaptic connections and cellular properties are known. The method is discrete in nature and relies on algebraic properties of state transitions and graph theory. Elements of the set of rhythms generated by a net...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Roberts PD

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This letter deals with neural networks as dynamical systems governed by finite difference equations. It shows that the introduction of k -many skip connections into network architectures, such as residual networks and additive dense n...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Hauser M,Gunn S,Saab S Jr,Ray A

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In learning theory, the training and test sets are assumed to be drawn from the same probability distribution. This assumption is also followed in practical situations, where matching the training and test distributions is considered desirable. Contrary to conventional wisdom, we show that mismatched training and test...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： González CR,Abu-Mostafa YS

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The emergence of synchrony in the activity of large, heterogeneous networks of spiking neurons is investigated. We define the robustness of synchrony by the critical disorder at which the asynchronous state becomes linearly unstable. We show that at low firing rates, synchrony is more robust in excitatory networks tha...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Neltner L,Hansel D,Mato G,Meunier C

更新日期：2000-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Function approximation in online, incremental, reinforcement learning needs to deal with two fundamental problems: biased sampling and nonstationarity. In this kind of task, biased sampling occurs because samples are obtained from specific trajectories dictated by the dynamics of the environment and are usually concen...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Agostini A,Celaya E

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of correlations between neuronal responses is crucial to understanding the neural code. A framework used to study this role comprises a breakdown of the mutual information between stimuli and responses into terms that aim to account for different coding modalities and the distinction between different notions...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Chicharro D

更新日期：2014-06-01 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