4 papers
Distilling a Modular Reservoir Through a Genomic Bottleneck
Mani Hamidi, Sina Khajehabdollahi, Charley M. Wu +1
The intricate structures of biological neural networks largely emerge during development, guided by a comparatively compressed blueprint encoded in the genome. The connectivity tha…
Cortico-cerebellar modularity as an architectural inductive bias for efficient temporal learning
Alexandra Voce, Emmanouil Giannakakis, Claudia Clopath
The cerebellum and cerebral cortex form tightly coupled circuits thought to support flexible and efficient temporal processing. How this interaction shapes cortical learning dynami…
Diffusion of Neuromodulators for Temporal Credit Assignment
João Barretto-Bittar, Anna Levina, Emmanouil Giannakakis +1
Biological learning achieves temporal credit assignment despite sparse and imprecise feedback, often relying on neuromodulatory signals acting over space and time. Here, we introdu…
Modular Growth of Hierarchical Networks: Efficient, General, and Robust Curriculum Learning
Mani Hamidi, Sina Khajehabdollahi, Emmanouil Giannakakis +3
Structural modularity is a pervasive feature of biological neural networks, which have been linked to several functional and computational advantages. Yet, the use of modular archi…