Bayesian active learning of neural firing rate maps with transformed gaussian process priors.

abstract：:A stochastic model of spike-timing-dependent plasticity (STDP) postulates that single synapses presented with a single spike pair exhibit all-or-none quantal jumps in synaptic strength. The amplitudes of the jumps are independent of spiking timing, but their probabilities do depend on spiking timing. By making the amp...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Elliott T

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Generalized discriminant analysis (GDA) is an extension of the classical linear discriminant analysis (LDA) from linear domain to a nonlinear domain via the kernel trick. However, in the previous algorithm of GDA, the solutions may suffer from the degenerate eigenvalue problem (i.e., several eigenvectors with the same...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Zheng W,Zhao L,Zou C

更新日期：2004-06-01 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：: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：:Recurrent neural architectures having oscillatory dynamics use rhythmic network activity to represent patterns stored in short-term memory. Multiple stored patterns can be retained in memory over the same neural substrate because the network's state persistently switches between them. Here we present a simple oscillat...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Winder RK,Reggia JA,Weems SA,Bunting MF

更新日期：2009-03-01 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 free-energy principle is a candidate unified theory for learning and memory in the brain that predicts that neurons, synapses, and neuromodulators work in a manner that minimizes free energy. However, electrophysiological data elucidating the neural and synaptic bases for this theory are lacking. Here, we propose ...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Isomura T,Sakai K,Kotani K,Jimbo Y

更新日期：2016-09-01 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：:We investigate the approximation ability of a multilayer perceptron (MLP) network when it is extended to the complex domain. The main challenge for processing complex data with neural networks has been the lack of bounded and analytic complex nonlinear activation functions in the complex domain, as stated by Liouville...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Kim T,Adali T

更新日期：2003-07-01 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：: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：:We present an integrative formalism of mutual information expansion, the general Poisson exact breakdown, which explicitly evaluates the informational contribution of correlations in the spike counts both between and within neurons. The formalism was validated on simulated data and applied to real neurons recorded fro...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Scaglione A,Moxon KA,Foffani G

更新日期：2010-06-01 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：:To understand the interspike interval (ISI) variability displayed by visual cortical neurons (Softky & Koch, 1993), it is critical to examine the dynamics of their neuronal integration, as well as the variability in their synaptic input current. Most previous models have focused on the latter factor. We match a simple...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Troyer TW,Miller KD

更新日期：1997-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We study active learning (AL) based on gaussian processes (GPs) for efficiently enumerating all of the local minimum solutions of a black-box function. This problem is challenging because local solutions are characterized by their zero gradient and positive-definite Hessian properties, but those derivatives cannot be ...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Inatsu Y,Sugita D,Toyoura K,Takeuchi I

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In "Isotropic Sequence Order Learning" (pp. 831-864 in this issue), we introduced a novel algorithm for temporal sequence learning (ISO learning). Here, we embed this algorithm into a formal nonevaluating (teacher free) environment, which establishes a sensor-motor feedback. The system is initially guided by a fixed r...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Porr B,von Ferber C,Wörgötter F

更新日期：2003-04-01 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：:A mathematical model, of general character for the dynamic description of coupled neural oscillators is presented. The population approach that is employed applies equally to coupled cells as to populations of such coupled cells. The formulation includes stochasticity and preserves details of precisely firing neurons....

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Sirovich L

更新日期：2008-05-01 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：: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：:Recently we presented a stochastic, ensemble-based model of spike-timing-dependent plasticity. In this model, single synapses do not exhibit plasticity depending on the exact timing of pre- and postsynaptic spikes, but spike-timing-dependent plasticity emerges only at the temporal or synaptic ensemble level. We showed...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Appleby PA,Elliott T

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this note, we demonstrate that the high firing irregularity produced by the leaky integrate-and-fire neuron with the partial somatic reset mechanism, which has been shown to be the most likely candidate to reflect the mechanism used in the brain for reproducing the highly irregular cortical neuron firing at high ra...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Christodoulou C,Cleanthous A

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this letter, we examine a general method of approximation, known as the Kikuchi approximation method, for finding the marginals of a product distribution, as well as the corresponding partition function. The Kikuchi approximation method defines a certain constrained optimization problem, called the Kikuchi problem,...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Pakzad P,Anantharam V

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Observable operator models (OOMs) are a class of models for stochastic processes that properly subsumes the class that can be modeled by finite-dimensional hidden Markov models (HMMs). One of the main advantages of OOMs over HMMs is that they admit asymptotically correct learning algorithms. A series of learning algor...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Zhao MJ,Jaeger H,Thon M

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reservoir computing is a biologically inspired class of learning algorithms in which the intrinsic dynamics of a recurrent neural network are mined to produce target time series. Most existing reservoir computing algorithms rely on fully supervised learning rules, which require access to an exact copy of the target re...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Pyle R,Rosenbaum R

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several integrate-to-threshold models with differing temporal integration mechanisms have been proposed to describe the accumulation of sensory evidence to a prescribed level prior to motor response in perceptual decision-making tasks. An experiment and simulation studies have shown that the introduction of time-varyi...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Zhou X,Wong-Lin K,Philip H

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Integrate-and-fire neurons are time encoding machines that convert the amplitude of an analog signal into a nonuniform, strictly increasing sequence of spike times. Under certain conditions, the encoded signals can be reconstructed from the nonuniform spike time sequences using a time decoding machine. Time encoding a...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Florescu D,Coca D

更新日期：2015-09-01 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：:The Bayesian evidence framework has been successfully applied to the design of multilayer perceptrons (MLPs) in the work of MacKay. Nevertheless, the training of MLPs suffers from drawbacks like the nonconvex optimization problem and the choice of the number of hidden units. In support vector machines (SVMs) for class...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Van Gestel T,Suykens JA,Lanckriet G,Lambrechts A,De Moor B,Vandewalle J

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuromorphic engineering combines the architectural and computational principles of systems neuroscience with semiconductor electronics, with the aim of building efficient and compact devices that mimic the synaptic and neural machinery of the brain. The energy consumptions promised by neuromorphic engineering are ext...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Martí D,Rigotti M,Seok M,Fusi S

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00