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Metabolic cost of information processing in Poisson variational autoencoders
Hadi Vafaii, Jacob L. Yates
Computation in biological systems is fundamentally energy-constrained, yet standard theories of computation treat energy as freely available. Here, we argue that variational free e…
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A hitchhiker's guide to Poisson gradient estimation
Michael Ibrahim, Hanqi Zhao, Eli Sennesh +5
Poisson-distributed latent variable models are widely used in computational neuroscience, but differentiating through discrete stochastic samples remains challenging. Two approache…