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q-bio.NC2024
Unveiling Secrets of Brain Function With Generative Modeling: Motion Perception in Primates & Cortical Network Organization in Mice
Hadi Vafaii
This Dissertation is comprised of two main projects, addressing questions in neuroscience through applications of generative modeling. Project #1 (Chapter 4) explores how neurons e…
cs.AI2024
Brain-like Variational Inference
Hadi Vafaii, Dekel Galor, Jacob L. Yates
Inference in both brains and machines can be formalized by optimizing a shared objective: maximizing the evidence lower bound (ELBO) in machine learning, or minimizing variational…
cs.LG2024
Poisson Variational Autoencoder
Hadi Vafaii, Dekel Galor, Jacob L. Yates
Variational autoencoders (VAEs) employ Bayesian inference to interpret sensory inputs, mirroring processes that occur in primate vision across both ventral (Higgins et al., 2021) a…