Novel low-rank neural decoder improves -ECoG neural decoding.
problem Challenging neural decoding from high-dimensional -ECoG data.
method Low-rank structure in neural network decoder.
result Low-rank decoder outperforms standard PCA.
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A new geometric model for V1 hypercolumns combines symplectic and spherical models.
problem Understanding the structure of V1 hypercolumns in the visual cortex.
method A differential geometric model based on conformal geometry.
result Combines features of symplectic and spherical models of hypercolumns.
The superior temporal gyrus (STG) region of cortex critically contributes to speech recognition. In this work, we show that a proposed WaveNet, with limited available data, is able to reconstruct speech stimuli from STG intracranial recordings. We further investigate the impulse response of the fitted model for each re…
Classical models describe primary visual cortex (V1) as a filter bank of orientation-selective linear-nonlinear (LN) or energy models, but these models fail to predict neural responses to natural stimuli accurately. Recent work shows that models based on convolutional neural networks (CNNs) lead to much more accurate p…
Modeling curvature-sensitive cells in visual cortex with geometric structures.
problem Understanding the functional architecture of curvature-sensitive cells in the visual cortex.
method Geometric model based on Engel structure and SIM(2) symmetry.
result Identified SIM(2) as the natural symmetry group for curvature-sensitive cells.
New VAE models reveal hierarchical visual cortex computations.
problem Capturing hierarchical visual cortex computations in generative models.
method Sparse coding hierarchical VAEs trained on natural images with varied generative and recognition components.
result Representations similar to those in visual cortex emerge under inductive biases.
Introduces basic facts on early vision's functional architecture.
problem Accessibility of early vision's functional architecture for non-specialists.
method Survey of three neurogeometric models and discussion of the conformal model.
result Synthesis of symplectic and spherical models into the conformal model.
Representations in the auditory cortex might be based on mechanisms similar to the visual ventral stream; modules for building invariance to transformations and multiple layers for compositionality and selectivity. In this paper we propose the use of such computational modules for extracting invariant and discriminativ…
In this paper we present a novel model of the primary visual cortex (V1) based on orientation, frequency and phase selective behavior of the V1 simple cells. We start from the first level mechanisms of visual perception: receptive profiles. The model interprets V1 as a fiber bundle over the 2-dimensional retinal plane …
In real world scenarios, objects are often partially occluded. This requires a robustness for object recognition against these perturbations. Convolutional networks have shown good performances in classification tasks. The learned convolutional filters seem similar to receptive fields of simple cells found in the prima…
End-to-end audio recognition system improves accuracy.
problem Improving accuracy in auditory object recognition.
method Proposes an end-to-end deep neural network with an 'inception nucleus' to learn features from raw waveforms.
result Bests current state-of-the-art approaches by 10.4 percentage points on Urbansound8k dataset.
New model for visual cortex border completion using bicycle wheel motions.
problem Understanding border completion in the visual cortex V1.
method Sub-Riemannian Hamiltonian formalism and bicycle wheel analogy.
result Analogies between visual cortex border completion and bicycle wheel motions.
New method for nonlinear Granger causality improves predictive relationships.
problem Challenges in applying Granger causality to nonlinear data.
method Permutation of covariate set, artificial neural networks, consistent variance estimation.
result Permutation method outperforms other techniques in predicting nonlinear relationships.
Automatic segmentation of auditory ossicles from CT images using Ricci curvature.
problem Automatic diagnosis of ossicles' diseases from 3D CT images of the head.
method Proposes a completely automatic method that locates and segments ossicles without manual labels or templates, using Ricci curvature in an energy function.
result Performance of the proposed method using discrete Forman-Ricci curvature is superior to state-of-the-art methods.
Adds a precortical module to CNNs for improved robustness to light variations.
problem Robustness of CNNs to global light intensity and contrast variations.
method Developed a mathematical model of the mammalian visual pathway, inspired by CNNs, and added a preliminary convolutional module.
result Significantly more robust CNNs achieved with added module on MNIST, FashionMNIST, and SVHN databases.
In this paper we propose a fusion approach to continuous emotion recognition that combines visual and auditory modalities in their representation spaces to predict the arousal and valence levels. The proposed approach employs a pre-trained convolution neural network and transfer learning to extract features from video …
Modeling curvature-sensitive cells in visual cortex using manifold geometry.
problem Understanding how curvature influences cell function in the visual cortex.
method Developed a 4D manifold with canonical Engel structure to represent orientation, position, curvature, and scale.
result Characterized curvature-sensitive receptive profiles using left-invariant generators of the Engel structure.
Tiny Eats GRU detects eating episodes on a microcontroller.
problem Automatic dietary monitoring on low-power devices.
method Shallow gated recurrent unit (GRU) architecture on Arm Cortex M0+.
result Tiny Eats GRU achieves 95.15% accuracy with 4% memory usage and 6 ms latency.
The paper extends the functional geometry of the visual cortex to more complex architectures using contactization and symplectization.
problem Understanding the functional architecture of the visual cortex.
method Contactization and symplectization processes to extend the dimension of the space.
result Extension of the functional geometry of the visual cortex to more complex architectures.
Modern deep neural networks require a tremendous amount of data to train, often needing hundreds or thousands of labeled examples to learn an effective representation. For these networks to work with less data, more structure must be built into their architectures or learned from previous experience. The learned weight…
The human auditory system is able to distinguish the vocal source of thousands of speakers, yet not much is known about what features the auditory system uses to do this. Fourier Transforms are capable of capturing the pitch and harmonic structure of the speaker but this alone proves insufficient at identifying speaker…
Linear and non-linear measures of heart rate variability (HRV) are widely investigated as non-invasive indicators of health. Stress has a profound impact on heart rate, and different meditation techniques have been found to modulate heartbeat rhythm. This paper aims to explore the process of identifying appropriate met…
Derives a biologically plausible neural network for Slow Feature Analysis.
problem Learning latent features from time series data.
method Starting from an SFA objective, derives Bio-SFA with a biologically plausible neural network implementation.
result Validates Bio-SFA on naturalistic stimuli, reproducing interesting properties of brain cells.
The growing number of low-power smart devices in the Internet of Things is coupled with the concept of "Edge Computing", that is moving some of the intelligence, especially machine learning, towards the edge of the network. Enabling machine learning algorithms to run on resource-constrained hardware, typically on low-p…
We propose a primitive called PJOIN, for "predictive join," which combines and extends the operations JOIN and LINK, which Valiant proposed as the basis of a computational theory of cortex. We show that PJOIN can be implemented in Valiant's model. We also show that, using PJOIN, certain reasonably complex learning and …
This paper proposes a representational model for image pairs such as consecutive video frames that are related by local pixel displacements, in the hope that the model may shed light on motion perception in primary visual cortex (V1). The model couples the following two components: (1) the vector representations of loc…
Neural population activity often exhibits rich variability and temporal structure. This variability is thought to arise from single-neuron stochasticity, neural dynamics on short time-scales, as well as from modulations of neural firing properties on long time-scales, often referred to as "non-stationarity". To better …
Olshausen and Field (OF) proposed that neural computations in the primary visual cortex (V1) can be partially modeled by sparse dictionary learning. By minimizing the regularized representation error they derived an online algorithm, which learns Gabor-filter receptive fields from a natural image ensemble in agreement …
Decodes neural activity to detect context effects in natural settings.
problem Detecting context-dependent changes in neural encoding.
method Decoding-based approach controlling for confounding factors.
result Demonstrates context-dependent changes in neural encoding.
Local Hebbian learning is believed to be inferior in performance to end-to-end training using a backpropagation algorithm. We question this popular belief by designing a local algorithm that can learn convolutional filters at scale on large image datasets. These filters combined with patch normalization and very steep …
V1 cortex reconstructs images as Poisson equation solutions with varying weights.
problem Reconstructing images from V1 cortical cell receptive profiles.
method Solves a heterogeneous Poisson equation with varying weights representing neural connectivity.
result Reconstructions converge to homogeneous solutions using homogenization techniques.
Neuroscientists classify neurons into different types that perform similar computations at different locations in the visual field. Traditional methods for neural system identification do not capitalize on this separation of 'what' and 'where'. Learning deep convolutional feature spaces that are shared among many neuro…
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Learning and inferring features that generate sensory input is a task continuously performed by cortex. In recent years, novel algorithms and learning rules have been proposed that allow neural network models to learn such features from natural images, written text, audio signals, etc. These networks usually involve de…
When governed by underlying low-dimensional dynamics, the interdependence of simultaneously recorded population of neurons can be explained by a small number of shared factors, or a low-dimensional trajectory. Recovering these latent trajectories, particularly from single-trial population recordings, may help us unders…
Human beings have developed fantastic abilities to integrate information from various sensory sources exploring their inherent complementarity. Perceptual capabilities are therefore heightened, enabling, for instance, the well-known "cocktail party" and McGurk effects, i.e., speech disambiguation from a panoply of soun…
Despite rapid advances in machine learning tools, the majority of neural decoding approaches still use traditional methods. Modern machine learning tools, which are versatile and easy to use, have the potential to significantly improve decoding performance. This tutorial describes how to effectively apply these algorit…
New model improves community detection in networks with strong assortativity.
problem Classic SBMs fail to recover assortative communities in networks with reduced information.
method Introduced a constrained SBM with strong assortativity constraints and efficient algorithms.
result Significant boost in community recovery capabilities, especially close to information-theoretic threshold.
Automated framework optimizes DNN deployment on Arm CPUs.
problem Lack of globally optimised DNN deployment across software levels.
method Reinforcement Learning search for automated design space exploration.
result Up to 4x improvement in performance and 2x reduction in memory.
Neurons in the visual cortex are correlated in their variability. The presence of correlation impacts cortical processing because noise cannot be averaged out over many neurons. In an effort to understand the functional purpose of correlated variability, we implement and evaluate correlated noise models in deep convolu…
Deep learning models outperform classical methods in forecasting neural activity.
problem Improving forecasting of neural activity using deep learning models.
method Systematic evaluation of eight probabilistic deep learning models against classical statistical models and baseline methods.
result Several deep learning models consistently outperform classical approaches in forecasting neural activity.
In many machine learning applications, it is necessary to meaningfully aggregate, through alignment, different but related datasets. Optimal transport (OT)-based approaches pose alignment as a divergence minimization problem: the aim is to transform a source dataset to match a target dataset using the Wasserstein dista…
BNNs enhance reservoir computing by acting as generalization filters.
problem Understanding how BNNs integrate with reservoir computing.
method Optogenetics and calcium imaging to record BNNs, reservoir computing framework.
result BNNs improve reservoir computing performance through generalization.
Fault-tolerant neural networks inspired by biological error correction codes.
problem Achieving reliable computation with unreliable neurons.
method Using biological error correction codes from grid cells in the mammalian cortex to develop a fault-tolerant neural network.
result Noisy biological neurons operate below a fault-tolerance threshold, suggesting a mechanism for reliable computation in the brain.
TMNs model brain memory systems for continual learning.
problem Catastrophic forgetting in neural networks.
method Triple Network architecture of GANs, incorporating brain-inspired algorithms.
result New state-of-the-art performance on class-incremental learning benchmarks.
Spatial-Spectral Boosting Analysis for Stroke Patients' Motor Imagery EEG in Rehabilitation Trainingstat.ML
Current studies about motor imagery based rehabilitation training systems for stroke subjects lack an appropriate analytic method, which can achieve a considerable classification accuracy, at the same time detects gradual changes of imagery patterns during rehabilitation process and disinters potential mechanisms about…
Statistical inference is considered for variables of interest, called primary variables, when auxiliary variables are observed along with the primary variables. We consider the setting of incomplete data analysis, where some primary variables are not observed. Utilizing a parametric model of joint distribution of prima…
Veterans with mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) have reported auditory and visual dysfunction that persists beyond the acute incident. The etiology behind these symptoms is difficult to characterize with current clinical imaging. These functional deficits may be caused by shear injury or micro-bleeds, which can be det…
Spatial audio is an essential medium to audiences for 3D visual and auditory experience. However, the recording devices and techniques are expensive or inaccessible to the general public. In this work, we propose a self-supervised audio spatialization network that can generate spatial audio given the corresponding vide…