A balanced network leads to contradictory constraints on memory models, as exemplified in previous work on accommodation of synfire chains. Here we show that these constraints can be overcome by introducing a'shadow' inhibitory pattern for each excitatory pattern of the model. This is interpreted as a double- balance principle, whereby there exists both global balance between average excitatory and inhibitory currents and local balance between the currents carrying coherent activity at any given time frame. This principle can be applied to networks with Hebbian cell assemblies, leading to a high capacity of the associative memory. The number of possible patterns is limited by a combinatorial constraint that turns out to be P 0.06N within the specific model that we employ.

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Those notes are based on the research paper " On Calibration of Modern Neural Networks" by (Guo et al, 2017.). Very large and deep models, as ResNet, are far more accurate than their older counterparts, as LeNet, on computer vision datasets such as CIFAR100. However while they are better at classifying images, we are less confident in their own confidence! Most neural networks for classification uses as last activation a softmax: it produces a distribution of probabilities for each target (cat, dog, boat, etc.). We may expect that if for a given image, our model associate a score of 0.8 to the target'boat', our model is confident at 80% that this is the right target.