BI 005 David Sussillo: RNNs are Back!

Brain Inspired

Aug 02 2018 | 00:45:39

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Show Notes

Mentioned in the show:

David’s Twitter account
Papers we discuss:
- Sussillo, D.S. & Abbott, L. F. (2009). Generating Coherent Patterns of Activity from Chaotic Neural Networks. Neuron 63(4).
- Sussillo, D. (2014) Neural circuits as computational dynamical systems. Current Opinion in Neurobiology 25:156-63.
- Sussillo, D. & Barak, O. (2013). Opening the Black Box: Low-dimensional dynamics in high-dimensional recurrent neural networks. Neural Computation 25(3).
- Sussillo, D., Jozefowicz, R., Abbott, L.F., Pandarinath, C. (2016) LFADS – Latent Factor Analysis via Dynamical Systems. arXiv:1608.06315
What’s a recurrent neural network?
- Here
- And Here
What’s a dynamical system?
Neuropixels
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