Does the neuronal noise in cortex help generalization?

no code implementations • NeurIPS Workshop Neuro_AI 2019 • Brian Hu, Jiaqi Shang, Ramakrishnan Iyer, Josh Siegle, Stefan Mihalas

Neural activity is highly variable in response to repeated stimuli.

Convolutional neural networks with extra-classical receptive fields

no code implementations • NeurIPS Workshop Neuro_AI 2019 • Brian Hu, Stefan Mihalas

To address these issues, we combine traditional supervised learning via backpropagation with a specialized unsupervised learning rule to learn lateral connections between neurons within a convolutional neural network.