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20072022
most citedPairwise maximum entropy models for studying large biological systems: when they can and when they can't work

180 citations · 449 across the 14 of their papers we have counts for

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15 papers

q-bio.NC2022

Meta-Learning the Inductive Biases of Simple Neural Circuits

William Dorrell, Maria Yuffa, Peter Latham

Training data is always finite, making it unclear how to generalise to unseen situations. But, animals do generalise, wielding Occam's razor to select a parsimonious explanation of…

q-bio.NC2022★ 17 cited

Actionable Neural Representations: Grid Cells from Minimal Constraints

William Dorrell, Peter E. Latham, Timothy E. J. Behrens +1

To afford flexible behaviour, the brain must build internal representations that mirror the structure of variables in the external world. For example, 2D space obeys rules: the sam…

q-bio.NC2021

Encoding priors in the brain: a reinforcement learning model for mouse decision making

Sanjukta Krishnagopal, Peter Latham

In two-alternative forced choice tasks, prior knowledge can improve performance, especially when operating near the psychophysical threshold. For instance, if subjects know that on…

stat.ML2021★ 7 cited

Powerpropagation: A sparsity inducing weight reparameterisation

Jonathan Schwarz, Siddhant M. Jayakumar, Razvan Pascanu +2

The training of sparse neural networks is becoming an increasingly important tool for reducing the computational footprint of models at training and evaluation, as well enabling th…

cs.LG2021★ 9 cited

Towards Biologically Plausible Convolutional Networks

Roman Pogodin, Yash Mehta, Timothy P. Lillicrap +1

Convolutional networks are ubiquitous in deep learning. They are particularly useful for images, as they reduce the number of parameters, reduce training time, and increase accurac…

cs.LG2020★ 18 cited

Kernelized information bottleneck leads to biologically plausible 3-factor Hebbian learning in deep networks

Roman Pogodin, Peter E. Latham

The state-of-the art machine learning approach to training deep neural networks, backpropagation, is implausible for real neural networks: neurons need to know their outgoing weigh…