BI 059 Wolfgang Maass: How Do Brains Compute?

January 22, 2020 01:00:06
BI 059 Wolfgang Maass: How Do Brains Compute?
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BI 059 Wolfgang Maass: How Do Brains Compute?

Jan 22 2020 | 01:00:06

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Show Notes

In this second part of my discussion with Wolfgang (check out the first part), we talk about spiking neural networks in general, principles of brain computation he finds promising for implementing better network models, and we quickly overview some of his recent work on using these principles to build models with biologically plausible learning mechanisms, a spiking network analog of the well-known LSTM recurrent network, and meta-learning using reservoir computing.

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