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* Dynamical models | * Dynamical models | ||
==== Nov. 18,20,25: Probabilistic models and inference ==== | ==== Nov. 18,20,25, Dec. 2: Probabilistic models and inference ==== | ||
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* The mixture of Gaussians model | * The mixture of Gaussians model | ||
* Boltzmann machines | * Boltzmann machines | ||
* Kalman filter model | * Kalman filter model | ||
* Energy-based models | * Energy-based models | ||
==== Dec. | ==== Dec. 4: Guest lecture (Tony Bell) ==== | ||
* Sparse coding and ‘ICA’ | |||
==== Dec. 9: Neural implementations ==== | |||
* Integrate-and-fire model | * Integrate-and-fire model | ||
* Neural encoding and decoding | * Neural encoding and decoding | ||
* Limits of precision in neurons | * Limits of precision in neurons | ||
* Neural synchrony and phase-based coding | <!-- * Neural synchrony and phase-based coding --> | ||
==== Dec. 11: Guest lecture (Tony Bell) ==== | |||
* | * Levels and loops | ||
Latest revision as of 07:06, 10 December 2014
Syllabus
Aug. 28: Introduction
- Theory and modeling in neuroscience
- Goals of AI/machine learning vs. theoretical neuroscience
- Turing vs. neural computation
Sept. 2,4: Neuron models
- Membrane equation, compartmental model of a neuron
- Linear systems: vectors, matrices, linear neuron models
- Perceptron model and linear separability
Sept. 9,11: Guest lectures
- Matlab/Python tutorial
- Paul Rhodes, Evolved Machines: Multi-compartment models; dendritic integration
Sept. 16,18: Supervised learning
- Perceptron learning rule
- Adaptation in linear neurons, Widrow-Hoff rule
- Objective functions and gradient descent
- Multilayer networks and backpropagation
Sept. 23,25: Unsupervised learning
- Linear Hebbian learning and PCA, decorrelation
- Winner-take-all networks and clustering
Sept. 30, Oct. 2: Guest lecture
- Fritz Sommer: Associative memories and attractor neural networks
Oct. 7,9: Guest lectures
- Jerry Feldman: Ecological utility and the mythical neural code
- Pentti Kanerva: Computing with 10,000 bits
Oct. 14: Unsupervised learning (continued)
Oct. 16: Guest lecture
- Tom Dean, Google: Connectomics
Oct. 21,23,28: Sparse, distributed coding
- Autoencoders
- Natural image statistics
- Projection pursuit
Oct. 30, Nov. 4: Plasticity and cortical maps
- Cortical maps
- Self-organizing maps, Kohonen nets
- Models of experience dependent learning and cortical reorganization
Nov. 6: Manifold learning
- Local linear embedding, Isomap
Nov. 13: Recurrent networks
- Hopfield networks, memories as 'basis of attraction'
- Line attractors and `bump circuits’
- Dynamical models
Nov. 18,20,25, Dec. 2: Probabilistic models and inference
- Probability theory and Bayes’ rule
- Learning and inference in generative models
- The mixture of Gaussians model
- Boltzmann machines
- Kalman filter model
- Energy-based models
Dec. 4: Guest lecture (Tony Bell)
- Sparse coding and ‘ICA’
Dec. 9: Neural implementations
- Integrate-and-fire model
- Neural encoding and decoding
- Limits of precision in neurons
Dec. 11: Guest lecture (Tony Bell)
- Levels and loops
