Neutral stability, rate propagation, and critical branching in feedforward networks.

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：: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：:Although the number of artificial neural network and machine learning architectures is growing at an exponential pace, more attention needs to be paid to theoretical guarantees of asymptotic convergence for novel, nonlinear, high-dimensional adaptive learning algorithms. When properly understood, such guarantees can g...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Golden RM

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We generalize recent theoretical work on the minimal number of layers of narrow deep belief networks that can approximate any probability distribution on the states of their visible units arbitrarily well. We relax the setting of binary units (Sutskever & Hinton, 2008 ; Le Roux & Bengio, 2008 , 2010 ; Montúfar & Ay, 2...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Montúfar GF

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A simple associationist neural network learns to factor abstract rules (i.e., grammars) from sequences of arbitrary input symbols by inventing abstract representations that accommodate unseen symbol sets as well as unseen but similar grammars. The neural network is shown to have the ability to transfer grammatical kno...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Hanson SJ,Negishi M

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many different types of integrate-and-fire models have been designed in order to explain how it is possible for a cortical neuron to integrate over many independent inputs while still producing highly variable spike trains. Within this context, the variability of spike trains has been almost exclusively measured using...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Jackson BS

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined how the depression of intracortical inhibition due to a reduction in ambient GABA concentration impairs perceptual information processing in schizophrenia. A neural network model with a gliotransmission-mediated ambient GABA regulatory mechanism was simulated. In the network, interneuron-to-glial-cell and ...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Hoshino O

更新日期：2013-12-01 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：: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：:We study both analytically and numerically the effect of presynaptic noise on the transmission of information in attractor neural networks. The noise occurs on a very short timescale compared to that for the neuron dynamics and it produces short-time synaptic depression. This is inspired in recent neurobiological find...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Cortes JM,Torres JJ,Marro J,Garrido PL,Kappen HJ

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Nyström method is a well-known sampling-based technique for approximating the eigensystem of large kernel matrices. However, the chosen samples in the Nyström method are all assumed to be of equal importance, which deviates from the integral equation that defines the kernel eigenfunctions. Motivated by this observ...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Zhang K,Kwok JT

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a pioneering classic, Warren McCulloch and Walter Pitts proposed a model of the central nervous system. Motivated by EEG recordings of normal brain activity, Chvátal and Goldsmith asked whether these dynamical systems can be engineered to produce trajectories that are irregular, disorderly, and apparently unpredict...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Chvátal V,Goldsmith M,Yang N

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To date, Hebbian learning combined with some form of constraint on synaptic inputs has been demonstrated to describe well the development of neural networks. The previous models revealed mathematically the importance of synaptic constraints to reproduce orientation selectivity in the visual cortical neurons, but biolo...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Tanaka S,Miyashita M

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

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：:Decision trees and neural networks are widely used tools for pattern classification. Decision trees provide highly localized representation, whereas neural networks provide a distributed but compact representation of the decision space. Decision trees cannot be induced in the online mode, and they are not adaptive to ...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Basak J

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Correlated neural activity has been observed at various signal levels (e.g., spike count, membrane potential, local field potential, EEG, fMRI BOLD). Most of these signals can be considered as superpositions of spike trains filtered by components of the neural system (synapses, membranes) and the measurement process. ...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Tetzlaff T,Rotter S,Stark E,Abeles M,Aertsen A,Diesmann M

更新日期：2008-09-01 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：:Synaptically generated subthreshold membrane potential (Vm) fluctuations can be characterized within the framework of stochastic calculus. It is possible to obtain analytic expressions for the steady-state Vm distribution, even in the case of conductance-based synaptic currents. However, as we show here, the analytic ...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Rudolph M,Destexhe A

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mechanisms influencing learning in neural networks are usually investigated on either a local or a global scale. The former relates to synaptic processes, the latter to unspecific modulatory systems. Here we study the interaction of a local learning rule that evaluates coincidences of pre- and postsynaptic action pote...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Sánchez-Montañés MA,Verschure PF,König P

更新日期：2000-03-01 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：: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：: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：:We develop theoretical foundations of resonator networks, a new type of recurrent neural network introduced in Frady, Kent, Olshausen, and Sommer (2020), a companion article in this issue, to solve a high-dimensional vector factorization problem arising in Vector Symbolic Architectures. Given a composite vector formed...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Kent SJ,Frady EP,Sommer FT,Olshausen BA

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article presents a new theoretical framework to consider the dynamics of a stochastic spiking neuron model with general membrane response to input spike. We assume that the input spikes obey an inhomogeneous Poisson process. The stochastic process of the membrane potential then becomes a gaussian process. When a ...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Amemori KI,Ishii S

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The hypothesis of invariant maximization of interaction (IMI) is formulated within the setting of random fields. According to this hypothesis, learning processes maximize the stochastic interaction of the neurons subject to constraints. We consider the extrinsic constraint in terms of a fixed input distribution on the...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Ay N

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent work suggests that synchronization of neuronal activity could serve to define functionally relevant relationships between spatially distributed cortical neurons. At present, it is not known to what extent this hypothesis is compatible with the widely supported notion of coarse coding, which assumes that feature...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： König P,Engel AK,Roelfsema PR,Singer W

更新日期：1995-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Topographic maps such as the self-organizing map (SOM) or neural gas (NG) constitute powerful data mining techniques that allow simultaneously clustering data and inferring their topological structure, such that additional features, for example, browsing, become available. Both methods have been introduced for vectori...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Hammer B,Hasenfuss A

更新日期：2010-09-01 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：: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：:Previous studies have combined analytical models of stochastic neural responses with signal detection theory (SDT) to predict psychophysical performance limits; however, these studies have typically been limited to simple models and simple psychophysical tasks. A companion article in this issue ("Evaluating Auditory P...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Heinz MG,Colburn HS,Carney LH

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00