Removing time variation with the anti-hebbian differential synapse

  • Authors:
  • Graeme Mitchison

  • Affiliations:
  • Physiological Laboratory, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EG, England

  • Venue:
  • Neural Computation
  • Year:
  • 1991

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Abstract

I describe a local synaptic learning rule that can be used to remove the effects of certain types of systematic temporal variation in the inputs to a unit. According to this rule, changes in synaptic weight result from a conjunction of short-term temporal changes in the inputs and the output. Formally, This is like the differential rule proposed by Klopf (1986) and Kosko (1986), except for a change of sign, which gives it an anti-Hebbian character. By itself this rule is insufficient. A weight conservation condition is needed to prevent the weights from collapsing to zero, and some further constraint implemented here by a biasing term to select particular sets of weights from the subspace of those which give minimal variation. As an example, I show that this rule will generate center-surround receptive fields that remove temporally varying linear gradients from the inputs.