Slow feature analysis: unsupervised learning of invariances
Neural Computation
Multivariate Information Bottleneck
UAI '01 Proceedings of the 17th Conference in Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence
On the maximization of information flow between spiking neurons
Neural Computation
Almost random projection machine with margin maximization and kernel features
ICANN'10 Proceedings of the 20th international conference on Artificial neural networks: Part II
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Neurons receive thousands of presynaptic input spike trains while emitting a single output spike train. This drastic dimensionality reduction suggests considering a neuron as a bottleneck for information transmission. Extending recent results, we propose a simple learning rule for the weights of spiking neurons derived from the information bottleneck (IB) framework that minimizes the loss of relevant information transmitted in the output spike train. In the IB framework, relevance of information is defined with respect to contextual information, the latter entering the proposed learning rule as a “third” factor besides pre-and postsynaptic activities. This renders the theoretically motivated learning rule a plausible model for experimentally observed synaptic plasticity phenomena involving three factors. Furthermore, we show that the proposed IB learning rule allows spiking neurons to learn a predictive code, that is, to extract those parts of their input that are predictive for future input.