Neuro-inspired RL solves complex control problems with fewer controllers.
problem Solving nonlinear control problems with unknown dynamics efficiently.
method Hierarchical RL framework combining limb coordination and reinforcement learning.
result Local LQR controllers combined with a reinforcement learner solve global nonlinear problems.
BioHash improves similarity search performance using sparse high-dimensional hash codes.
problem Improving similarity search performance in high-dimensional data.
method BioHash produces sparse high-dimensional hash codes through a data-driven approach based on synaptic plasticity.
result BioHash outperforms previous hashing methods in various similarity search tasks.
ResRep prunes CNNs without losing accuracy by separating remembering and forgetting.
problem Pruning CNNs to reduce FLOPs without sacrificing accuracy.
method Decoupling remembering and forgetting in CNNs, using SGD for remembering and a novel update rule for forgetting.
result Achieved lossless pruning with high compression ratio (76.15% accuracy on ImageNet with 45% FLOPs reduction).
Algorithm improves transfer learning by inferring successor maps.
problem Machine learning challenges in multi-task scenarios.
method Combining factorized representations and nonparametric memory-based approaches.
result Improves transfer capabilities and outperforms other algorithms.
Proposes tests to control confounding bias in predictive models.
problem Lack of non-parametric tests for confounding bias in predictive modeling.
method Partial and full confounder tests for probing null hypotheses of unconfounded and fully confounded models.
result Reveals previously unreported or hard-to-correct confounders in machine learning models.
The paper introduces walks with jumps for modeling neuron activity in hyperbolic space.
problem Encoding neuron activity sequences in hyperbolic space.
method Introducing walks with jumps in hyperbolic geometry to model neuron activity.
result Endpoints of walks with jumps do not fully encode the sequence of jump times.
A new theory explains large associative memory with biological plausibility.
problem Large associative memory in neurobiology and machine learning.
method Microscopic theory with hidden neurons and two-body interactions.
result Valid model of large associative memory with biological plausibility.
3D good continuation model explains stereo vision using neurogeometry.
problem Understanding how the brain processes 3D visual correspondence.
method Developed a neurogeometric model involving spatial and orientation disparities.
result Provides insight into neural organization and correspondence problem.
Neuroscience is undergoing faster changes than ever before. Over 100 years our field qualitatively described and invasively manipulated single or few organisms to gain anatomical, physiological, and pharmacological insights. In the last 10 years neuroscience spawned quantitative big-sample datasets on microanatomy, syn…
Neuroimaging research has predominantly drawn conclusions based on classical statistics, including null-hypothesis testing, t-tests, and ANOVA. Throughout recent years, statistical learning methods enjoy increasing popularity, including cross-validation, pattern classification, and sparsity-inducing regression. These t…
We investigate solutions to the minimal surface problem with Dirichlet boundary conditions in the roto-translation group equipped with a subRiemannian metric. By work of G. Citti and A. Sarti, such solutions are amodal completions of occluded visual data when using a model of the first layer of the visual cortex. Using…
There has been significant recent interest towards achieving highly efficient deep neural network architectures. A promising paradigm for achieving this is the concept of evolutionary deep intelligence, which attempts to mimic biological evolution processes to synthesize highly-efficient deep neural networks over succe…
Psychiatric neuroscience is increasingly aware of the need to define psychopathology in terms of abnormal neural computation. The central tool in this endeavour is the fitting of computational models to behavioural data. The most prominent example of this procedure is fitting reinforcement learning (RL) models to decis…
Method for understanding heterogeneous treatment effects in complex causal graphs.
problem Heterogeneity and comorbidity in healthcare problems.
method Developed a new approach to characterize heterogeneous causal effects (HCEs) in graphical contexts, including heterogeneous causal graphs (HCGs) with confounders and mediators.
result Established theoretical forms and properties of HCEs in linear and nonlinear models, and developed interactive structural learning for estimation.
Emotions are intimately tied to motivation and the adaptation of behavior, and many animal species show evidence of emotions in their behavior. Therefore, emotions must be related to powerful mechanisms that aid survival, and, emotions must be evolutionary continuous phenomena. How and why did emotions evolve in nature…
The 1/3 Financial Rule helps prevent household bankruptcy through balanced spending, savings, and debt repayment.
problem Reducing household bankruptcy risk through effective financial planning.
method Mathematical modeling, game theory, behavioral finance, and technological analysis.
result The 1/3 Financial Rule emerges as a robust solution for supporting household financial stability.
Hidden Markov Models analyze mobile health data to identify APNS states.
problem Subjective self-report measures of APNS lead to errors and biases.
method Exploratory hidden Markov factor models and Stabilized Expectation-Maximization algorithm.
result Identified homogeneous APNS states and dynamic transitions.
Animals execute goal-directed behaviours despite the limited range and scope of their sensors. To cope, they explore environments and store memories maintaining estimates of important information that is not presently available. Recently, progress has been made with artificial intelligence (AI) agents that learn to per…
Biological and artificial neural systems are composed of many local processors, and their capabilities depend upon the transfer function that relates each local processor's outputs to its inputs. This paper uses a recent advance in the foundations of information theory to study the properties of local processors that u…
Simplifies generating inspired images from deep models.
problem Lack of tools to quickly generate inspired images from deep models.
method Optimization method to find optimal latent parameters.
result Effective retrieval of inspired images in most cases.
Recent experimental advances in neuroscience have opened new vistas into the immense complexity of neuronal networks. This proliferation of data challenges us on two parallel fronts. First, how can we form adequate theoretical frameworks for understanding how dynamical network processes cooperate across widely disparat…
The paper develops models to understand sensory coding and cortical topography.
problem Understanding how visual cortical areas' receptive fields and topographic maps relate to environmental statistical structure.
method Energy-based models applied to probability density estimation, constrained by biological constraints.
result The models qualitatively reproduce receptive field and map properties found in vivo.
Quantum-inspired method optimizes portfolio selection.
problem Optimizing asset allocation in finance.
method Combining quantum-inspired and conventional optimization methods.
result Faster and more accurate portfolio optimization solutions.
CHANI learns classification tasks with local transformations inspired by biology.
problem Proving neural networks can learn classification tasks with local transformations.
method CHANI uses spiking neurons modeled by Hawkes processes with expert aggregation for local learning.
result CHANI can learn and encode multiple classes, forming assemblies of neurons.
Quantum-inspired CCA improves correlation analysis for high-dimensional data.
problem High-dimensional data limits conventional CCA due to time complexity.
method Developed a quantum-inspired CCA (qiCCA) with logarithmic time complexity.
result qiCCA extracts more correlations than linear CCA and is comparable to deep and kernel CCA.
fcHMRF-LIS controls FDR in neuroimaging data, improving power and scalability.
problem Complex spatial dependencies and high variability in FDR control methods for neuroimaging data.
method fcHMRF-LIS integrates LIS-based testing with fcHMRF to model spatial structures efficiently.
result fcHMRF-LIS achieves accurate FDR control, lower FNR, and higher true positives compared to existing methods.
New deep learning models inspired by fuzzy logic are more robust to adversarial attacks.
problem Flawed generalization in deep neural networks leading to adversarial examples.
method Inspired by fuzzy logic, new architectures combining alternative design elements.
result New models are more robust to adversarial examples and noise.
The study explores how brain development can inspire efficient deep learning models.
problem Efficient and robust optimization procedures for deep learning.
method Inspiration from biological neural development to improve deep learning models.
result Biological neural development can inspire efficient and robust optimization procedures.
A RL-enhanced quantum-inspired algorithm solves combinatorial optimization problems.
problem Optimizing quantum-inspired algorithms for combinatorial problems.
method Reinforcement learning agent tunes hyperparameters of a quantum-inspired algorithm.
result The RL-enhanced algorithm samples high-quality solutions to the Ising problem.
CoNBONet improves reliability analysis of complex systems with fast, energy-efficient predictions.
problem Time-dependent reliability analysis of nonlinear systems under stochastic excitations is computationally demanding.
method CoNBONet combines deep operator networks with neuroscience-inspired neuron models for fast, energy-efficient inference.
result CoNBONet provides reliable coverage of failure probabilities with theoretical guarantees.
New algorithms improve MCMC efficiency for complex distributions.
problem High variance and low effective sample size in MCMC samplers.
method Antithetic Riemannian Manifold and Quantum-Inspired Hamiltonian Monte Carlo.
result Improved effective sample size and variance reduction.
New approach relaxes inductive biases of physics-inspired NNs for better performance.
problem Challenges in applying physics-inspired NNs to real-world systems.
method Examined and relaxed inductive biases of Hamiltonian NNs, improving performance on non-conservative systems.
result Improved performance on practical, non-conservative systems by relaxing inductive biases.
A quantum-inspired classical algorithm speeds up LS-SVM classification.
problem Big data challenge in SVM classification.
method Improved indirect sampling technique for LS-SVM.
result Algorithm achieves logarithmic runtime for low rank data matrices.
Novel bio-inspired masking for robust speech emotion recognition.
problem Noise degradation in speech emotion recognition.
method Cochlear cepstrogram-based contrastive learning with temporal and frequency masking.
result Improved speech emotion recognition performance on K-EmoCon benchmark.
Paper classifies multiple video sources in encrypted tunnels using NLP-inspired features.
problem Traffic classification in encrypted video streams.
method Deep learning with a novel NLP-inspired feature for multi-label classification.
result The method achieves high performance on binary and multilabel classification tasks.
Current imitation learning techniques are too restrictive because they require the agent and expert to share the same action space. However, oftentimes agents that act differently from the expert can solve the task just as good. For example, a person lifting a box can be imitated by a ceiling mounted robot or a desktop…
Discussing rigidity properties of conics, inspired by billiards in ellipses.
problem Rigidity properties of conics and billiards in ellipses.
method Analog of polar duality and circle map properties.
result Two rigidity properties of conics.
DCNs mimic neuronal networks for improved neural classification.
problem Lack of topological similarity between DNNs and biological neural networks.
method Developed DCNs with topologies inspired by real-world neuronal networks.
result High classification accuracy achieved by DCNs.
The issue of computing (co)homology generators of a cell complex is gaining a pivotal role in various branches of science. While this issue can be rigorously solved in polynomial time, it is still overly demanding for large scale problems. Drawing inspiration from low-frequency electrodynamics, this paper presents a ph…
We show that dispersive propagation of light followed by phase detection has properties that can be exploited for extracting features from the waveforms. This discovery is spearheading development of a new class of physics-inspired algorithms for feature extraction from digital images with unique properties and superio…
Paper presents a faster classical algorithm for principal component regression.
problem Efficiently solving principal component regression problems.
method Uses quantum-inspired linear algebra techniques.
result Achieves polylogarithmic runtime, significantly faster than state-of-the-art.
Develops an MS-inspired algorithm for regression mode finding and space partitioning.
problem Finding local modes of regression functions and partitioning input space.
method Mean-shift-inspired algorithm for iterative gradient ascent.
result Proves convergence and rates of convergence for estimated local modes.
A new image completion method inspired by brain cells.
problem Image restoration from corrupted data.
method Biologically-inspired sub-Riemannian model with frequency and phase.
result Completion of two-dimensional images using cortical cell responses.
A brain-inspired spiking Transformer reduces energy consumption and enhances interpretability.
problem Energy inefficiency and lack of interpretability in Transformer models.
method Spiking STDP Transformer using spike-timing-dependent plasticity (STDP) for self-attention.
result Achieves 94.35% and 78.08% accuracy on CIFAR-10 and CIFAR-100 datasets respectively, with 88.47% energy reduction.
New defense method inspired by encryption improves visual classification accuracy.
problem Conventional defenses reduce accuracy and are defeated by obfuscated gradients.
method Block-wise pixel shuffling with secret key for training and test images.
result Achieves high accuracy (91.55%) on clean images and (89.66%) on adversarial examples.
MHVAE learns cross-modality inference inspired by human cognition.
problem Cross-modality inference in multimodal data.
method Hierarchical multimodal generative model with modality-specific and joint-modality distributions.
result MHVAE performs on par with state-of-the-art models on multimodal datasets.
New graph AE and VAE model predicts directed links better than existing methods.
problem Link prediction in directed graphs, especially for unobserved edges.
method Gravity-inspired decoder scheme for directed graphs.
result Outperforms standard graph AE and VAE on three real-world directed link prediction tasks.
Financial markets modeled like brain networks using dMNC.
problem Understanding latent dynamics in financial markets.
method Biologically inspired framework using dMNC.
result Structural persistence, regime shifts, and early warning signals identified.