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2 papers
q-bio.NC2019
Gradient-free activation maximization for identifying effective stimuli
Will Xiao, Gabriel Kreiman
A fundamental question for understanding brain function is what types of stimuli drive neurons to fire. In visual neuroscience, this question has also been posted as characterizing…
cs.LG2018★ 37 cited
Biologically-plausible learning algorithms can scale to large datasets
Will Xiao, Honglin Chen, Qianli Liao +1
The backpropagation (BP) algorithm is often thought to be biologically implausible in the brain. One of the main reasons is that BP requires symmetric weight matrices in the feedfo…