Recurrent neural networks (RNNs) trained on neuroscience-based tasks have been widely used as models for cortical areas performing analogous tasks. However, very few tasks involve a single cortical area, and instead require the coordination of multiple brain areas. Despite the importance of multi-area computation, there is a limited understanding of the principles underlying such computation. We propose to use multi-area RNNs with neuroscience-inspired architecture constraints to derive key features of multi-area computation. In particular, we show that incorporating multiple areas and Dale's Law is critical for biasing the networks to learn biologically plausible solutions. Additionally, we leverage the full observability of the RNNs to show that output-relevant information is preferentially propagated between areas. These results suggest that cortex uses modular computation to generate minimal sufficient representations of task information. More broadly, our results suggest that constrained multi-area RNNs can produce experimentally testable hypotheses for computations that occur within and across multiple brain areas, enabling new insights into distributed computation in neural systems.

Novel architectures have recently improved generative image synthesis leading to excellent visual quality in various tasks. Much of this success is due to the scalability of these architectures and hence caused by a dramatic increase in model complexity and in the computational resources invested in training these models.

This supplementary provides additional experiments as well as details that are required to reproduce our results. These were not included in the main paper due to space limitations. The supplementary is arranged as follows: Section A: Details on Modelling - Section A.1 Details of Theoretical Modelling - Section A.2 Additional Details on CLEAM Algorithm - Section A.3 Details on Fairness Metric - Section A.4 Details of Significance of the Baseline Errors Section B: Deeper Analysis on Error in Fairness Measurement Section C: Validating Statistical Model for Classifier Output - Section C.1 Validation of Sample-Based Estimate vs Model-Based Estimate - Section C.2 Goodness-of-Fit Test: ˆpfrom the Real GANs with Our Theoretical Model Section D: Additional Experimental Results - Section D.1 Experimental Results with Standard Deviation - Section D.2 Experimental Setup for Diversity - Section D.3 Measuring Varying Degrees of Bias (Gender and BlackHair) - Section D.4 Measuring Varying Degrees of ...

We implement our attack framework using Python 3.7.3 and PyTorch 1.7.13 that supports CUDA 11.0 for accelerating computations by using GPUs. We run our experiments on a machine equipped with Intel i5-8400 2.80GHz 6-core processors, 16 GB of RAM, and four Nvidia GTX 1080 Ti GPUs. To compute the Hessian trace, we use a virtual machine equipped with Intel E5-2686v4 2.30GHz 8-core processors, 64 GB of RAM, and an Nvidia Tesla V100 GPU. For all our attacks in 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, and 4.5, we use symmetric quantization for the weights and asymmetric quantization for the activation--a default configuration in many deep learning frameworks supporting quantization. Quantization granularity is layer-wise for both the weights and activation.

Large language models (LLMs) exhibit in-context learning abilities which enable the same model to perform several tasks without any task-specific training. In contrast, traditional adaptation approaches, such as fine-tuning, modify the underlying models for each specific task. In-context learning, however, consistently underperforms task-specific tuning approaches even when presented with the same examples. While most existing approaches (e.g., prompt engineering) focus on the LLM's learned representations to patch this performance gap, our experiments actually reveal that LLM representations contain sufficient information to make good predictions. As such, we focus on the LLM's reasoning abilities and demonstrate that this performance gap exists due to their inability to perform simple probabilistic reasoning tasks. This raises an intriguing question: Are LLMs actually capable of learning how to reason in a task-agnostic manner? We answer this in the affirmative and, as a proof of concept, propose TART which generically improves an LLM's reasoning abilities using a synthetically trained reasoning module.