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Model-based inference of synaptic plasticity rules Y ash Mehta
Inferring the synaptic plasticity rules that govern learning in the brain is a key challenge in neuroscience. We present a novel computational method to infer these rules from experimental data, applicable to both neural and behavioral data. Our approach approximates plasticity rules using a parameterized function, employing either truncated Taylor series for theoretical interpretability or multilayer percep-trons. These plasticity parameters are optimized via gradient descent over entire trajectories to align closely with observed neural activity or behavioral learning dynamics. This method can uncover complex rules that induce long nonlinear time dependencies, particularly involving factors like postsynaptic activity and current synaptic weights. We validate our approach through simulations, successfully recovering established rules such as Oja's, as well as more intricate plasticity rules with reward-modulated terms. We assess the robustness of our technique to noise and apply it to behavioral data from Drosophila in a probabilistic reward-learning experiment. Notably, our findings reveal an active forgetting component in reward learning in flies, improving predictive accuracy over previous models. This modeling framework offers a promising new avenue for elucidating the computational principles of synaptic plasticity and learning in the brain.
Knowledge Distillation by On-the-Fly Native Ensemble
xu lan, Xiatian Zhu, Shaogang Gong
Knowledge distillation is effective to train the small and generalisable network models for meeting the low-memory and fast running requirements. Existing offline distillation methods rely on a strong pre-trained teacher, which enables favourable knowledge discovery and transfer but requires a complex two-phase training procedure. Online counterparts address this limitation at the price of lacking a high-capacity teacher. In this work, we present an On-the-fly Native Ensemble (ONE) learning strategyforone-stage online distillation.
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This section consists of three parts, with each subsequent part building upon the previous one. Appendix A.1 covers the fundamentals of RL, where the actor-critic method is introduced. Appendix A.2 describes the RL algorithm for a single fulfillment agent, which is the proximal policy Appendix A.3 presents the MARL algorithm for the Currently, policy-based methods [Deisenroth et al., 2013] are prevalent because they are compatible with stochastic To sum up, the complete procedure is given in Algorithm 1.Algorithm 1 Heterogeneous Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for Order Fulfillment. With regard to the advantage estimator, we set the GAE parameters [Schulman et al., 2016] To highlight how our proposed benchmark differs from existing approaches focused on sub-tasks of order fulfillment, we compare the objectives, observations, and actions in Table 1. It should be noted that multiple formulations exist for each sub-task.