Search Results for author: Eli Shlizerman

Found 25 papers, 7 papers with code

Evolutionary algorithms as an alternative to backpropagation for supervised training of Biophysical Neural Networks and Neural ODEs

no code implementations17 Nov 2023 James Hazelden, Yuhan Helena Liu, Eli Shlizerman, Eric Shea-Brown

Training networks consisting of biophysically accurate neuron models could allow for new insights into how brain circuits can organize and solve tasks.

Evolutionary Algorithms

Learning Time-Invariant Representations for Individual Neurons from Population Dynamics

1 code implementation NeurIPS 2023 Lu Mi, Trung Le, Tianxing He, Eli Shlizerman, Uygar Sümbül

This suggests that neuronal activity is a combination of its time-invariant identity and the inputs the neuron receives from the rest of the circuit.

Self-Supervised Learning

Physics-Driven Diffusion Models for Impact Sound Synthesis from Videos

no code implementations CVPR 2023 Kun Su, Kaizhi Qian, Eli Shlizerman, Antonio Torralba, Chuang Gan

Traditional methods of impact sound synthesis use physics simulation to obtain a set of physics parameters that could represent and synthesize the sound.

Be Everywhere - Hear Everything (BEE): Audio Scene Reconstruction by Sparse Audio-Visual Samples

no code implementations ICCV 2023 Mingfei Chen, Kun Su, Eli Shlizerman

The audio at the listener location is a complex outcome of sound propagation through the scene geometry and interacting with surfaces and also the locations of the emitters and the sounds they emit.

TKIL: Tangent Kernel Approach for Class Balanced Incremental Learning

no code implementations17 Jun 2022 Jinlin Xiang, Eli Shlizerman

In our work, we propose to address these challenges with the introduction of a novel methodology of Tangent Kernel for Incremental Learning (TKIL) that achieves class-balanced performance.

Class Incremental Learning Incremental Learning

STNDT: Modeling Neural Population Activity with a Spatiotemporal Transformer

no code implementations9 Jun 2022 Trung Le, Eli Shlizerman

Modeling neural population dynamics underlying noisy single-trial spiking activities is essential for relating neural observation and behavior.

Contrastive Learning

Statistical Perspective on Functional and Causal Neural Connectomics: The Time-Aware PC Algorithm

1 code implementation11 Apr 2022 Rahul Biswas, Eli Shlizerman

In this work, we propose to model and estimate the causal functional connectivity from neural time series using a novel approach that adapts directed probabilistic graphical modeling to the time series scenario.

Causal Inference counterfactual +2

Lyapunov-Guided Representation of Recurrent Neural Network Performance

1 code implementation11 Apr 2022 Ryan Vogt, Yang Zheng, Eli Shlizerman

To address the fact that RNN features go beyond the existing Lyapunov spectral analysis, we propose to infer relevant features from the Lyapunov spectrum with an Autoencoder and an embedding of its latent representation (AeLLE).

Time Series Time Series Analysis

How Does it Sound?

no code implementations NeurIPS 2021 Kun Su, Xiulong Liu, Eli Shlizerman

It is often the case that the experience of watching the video can be enhanced by adding a musical soundtrack that is in-sync with the rhythmic features of these activities.

Statistical Perspective on Functional and Causal Neural Connectomics: A Comparative Study

no code implementations3 Nov 2021 Rahul Biswas, Eli Shlizerman

Additional approaches have been proposed to incorporate aspects of causality to turn functional connectomes into causal functional connectomes, however, these methodologies typically focus on specific aspects of causality.

Knowledge Distillation Circumvents Nonlinearity for Optical Convolutional Neural Networks

no code implementations26 Feb 2021 Jinlin Xiang, Shane Colburn, Arka Majumdar, Eli Shlizerman

However, a major challenge in using this spectral approach, as well as in an optical implementation of CNNs, is the inclusion of a nonlinearity between each convolutional layer, without which CNN performance drops dramatically.

Computational Efficiency Knowledge Distillation +2

Multi-Instrumentalist Net: Unsupervised Generation of Music from Body Movements

no code implementations7 Dec 2020 Kun Su, Xiulong Liu, Eli Shlizerman

We propose a novel system that takes as an input body movements of a musician playing a musical instrument and generates music in an unsupervised setting.

Disentanglement Music Generation

Sparse Semi-Supervised Action Recognition with Active Learning

no code implementations3 Dec 2020 Jingyuan Li, Eli Shlizerman

Current state-of-the-art methods for skeleton-based action recognition are supervised and rely on labels.

Action Recognition Active Learning +1

On Lyapunov Exponents for RNNs: Understanding Information Propagation Using Dynamical Systems Tools

no code implementations25 Jun 2020 Ryan Vogt, Maximilian Puelma Touzel, Eli Shlizerman, Guillaume Lajoie

Recurrent neural networks (RNNs) have been successfully applied to a variety of problems involving sequential data, but their optimization is sensitive to parameter initialization, architecture, and optimizer hyperparameters.

Audeo: Audio Generation for a Silent Performance Video

1 code implementation NeurIPS 2020 Kun Su, Xiulong Liu, Eli Shlizerman

We present a novel system that gets as an input video frames of a musician playing the piano and generates the music for that video.

Audio Generation Audio Synthesis +1

Deep Reinforcement Learning for Neural Control

no code implementations12 Jun 2020 Jimin Kim, Eli Shlizerman

To infer candidate control policies, our approach maps neural circuits and their connectome into a grid-world like setting and infers the actions needed to achieve aimed behavior.

Q-Learning reinforcement-learning +1

Iterate & Cluster: Iterative Semi-Supervised Action Recognition

1 code implementation12 Jun 2020 Jingyuan Li, Eli Shlizerman

The method utilizes latent space embedding and clustering of the unsupervised encoder-decoder to guide the selection of sequences to be annotated in each iteration.

Action Recognition Clustering +2

BI-MAML: Balanced Incremental Approach for Meta Learning

no code implementations12 Jun 2020 Yang Zheng, Jinlin Xiang, Kun Su, Eli Shlizerman

The balanced learning strategy enables BI-MAML to both outperform other state-of-the-art models in terms of classification accuracy for existing tasks and also accomplish efficient adaption to similar new tasks with less required shots.

General Classification Image Classification +1

R-FORCE: Robust Learning for Random Recurrent Neural Networks

no code implementations25 Mar 2020 Yang Zheng, Eli Shlizerman

Random Recurrent Neural Networks (RRNN) are the simplest recurrent networks to model and extract features from sequential data.

Time Series Analysis

PREDICT & CLUSTER: Unsupervised Skeleton Based Action Recognition

1 code implementation CVPR 2020 Kun Su, Xiulong Liu, Eli Shlizerman

Given inputs of body keypoints sequences obtained during various movements, our system associates the sequences with actions.

Action Recognition Skeleton Based Action Recognition +1

An Optical Frontend for a Convolutional Neural Network

no code implementations23 Dec 2018 Shane Colburn, Yi Chu, Eli Shlizerman, Arka Majumdar

The parallelism of optics and the miniaturization of optical components using nanophotonic structures, such as metasurfaces present a compelling alternative to electronic implementations of convolutional neural networks.

Benchmarking

Audio to Body Dynamics

1 code implementation CVPR 2018 Eli Shlizerman, Lucio M. Dery, Hayden Schoen, Ira Kemelmacher-Shlizerman

We present a method that gets as input an audio of violin or piano playing, and outputs a video of skeleton predictions which are further used to animate an avatar.

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