Visual Categorization with Random Projection.

abstract：:This article reviews statistical techniques for combining multiple probability distributions. The framework is that of a decision maker who consults several experts regarding some events. The experts express their opinions in the form of probability distributions. The decision maker must aggregate the experts' distrib...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Jacobs RA

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have studied some of the design trade-offs governing visual representations based on spatially invariant conjunctive feature detectors, with an emphasis on the susceptibility of such systems to false-positive recognition errors-Malsburg's classical binding problem. We begin by deriving an analytical model that make...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Mel BW,Fiser J

更新日期：2000-04-01 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：:The nu-support vector machine (nu-SVM) for classification proposed by Schölkopf, Smola, Williamson, and Bartlett (2000) has the advantage of using a parameter nu on controlling the number of support vectors. In this article, we investigate the relation between nu-SVM and C-SVM in detail. We show that in general they a...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Chang CC,Lin CJ

更新日期：2001-09-01 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：:The Kalman filter provides a simple and efficient algorithm to compute the posterior distribution for state-space models where both the latent state and measurement models are linear and gaussian. Extensions to the Kalman filter, including the extended and unscented Kalman filters, incorporate linearizations for model...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Burkhart MC,Brandman DM,Franco B,Hochberg LR,Harrison MT

更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Binocular fusion takes place over a limited region smaller than one degree of visual angle (Panum's fusional area), which is on the order of the range of preferred disparities measured in populations of disparity-tuned neurons in the visual cortex. However, the actual range of binocular disparities encountered in natu...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Tsang EK,Shi BE

更新日期：2008-10-01 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：:Integrate-and-express models of synaptic plasticity propose that synapses integrate plasticity induction signals before expressing synaptic plasticity. By discerning trends in their induction signals, synapses can control destabilizing fluctuations in synaptic strength. In a feedforward perceptron framework with binar...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Elliott T

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A single-layered Hough transform network is proposed that accepts image coordinates of each object pixel as input and produces a set of outputs that indicate the belongingness of the pixel to a particular structure (e.g., a straight line). The network is able to learn adaptively the parametric forms of the linear segm...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Basak J

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We propose a modular reinforcement learning architecture for nonlinear, nonstationary control tasks, which we call multiple model-based reinforcement learning (MMRL). The basic idea is to decompose a complex task into multiple domains in space and time based on the predictability of the environmental dynamics. The sys...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Doya K,Samejima K,Katagiri K,Kawato M

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

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 perform a detailed fixed-point analysis of two-unit recurrent neural networks with sigmoid-shaped transfer functions. Using geometrical arguments in the space of transfer function derivatives, we partition the network state-space into distinct regions corresponding to stability types of the fixed points. Unlike in ...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Tino P,Horne BG,Giles CL

更新日期：2001-06-01 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：: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：: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：: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：: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：:Tangential neurons in the fly brain are sensitive to the typical optic flow patterns generated during egomotion. In this study, we examine whether a simplified linear model based on the organization principles in tangential neurons can be used to estimate egomotion from the optic flow. We present a theory for the cons...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Franz MO,Chahl JS,Krapp HG

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe an analytical framework for the adaptations of neural systems that adapt its internal structure on the basis of subjective probabilities constructed by computation of randomly received input signals. A principled approach is provided with the key property that it defines a probability density model that al...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Khaikine M,Holthausen K

更新日期：2000-02-01 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：: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：: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：:Regression aims at estimating the conditional mean of output given input. However, regression is not informative enough if the conditional density is multimodal, heteroskedastic, and asymmetric. In such a case, estimating the conditional density itself is preferable, but conditional density estimation (CDE) is challen...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Tangkaratt V,Xie N,Sugiyama M

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Large-scale data collection efforts to map the brain are underway at multiple spatial and temporal scales, but all face fundamental problems posed by high-dimensional data and intersubject variability. Even seemingly simple problems, such as identifying a neuron/brain region across animals/subjects, become exponential...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Frady EP,Kapoor A,Horvitz E,Kristan WB Jr

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The prevalence of coherent oscillations in various frequency ranges in the central nervous system raises the question of the mechanisms that synchronize large populations of neurons. We study synchronization in models of large networks of spiking neurons with random sparse connectivity. Synchrony occurs only when the ...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Golomb D,Hansel D

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the past decade the importance of synchronized dynamics in the brain has emerged from both empirical and theoretical perspectives. Fast dynamic synchronous interactions of an oscillatory or nonoscillatory nature may constitute a form of temporal coding that underlies feature binding and perceptual synthesis. The re...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Chawla D,Lumer ED,Friston KJ

更新日期：1999-08-15 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：: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：: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