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ICONIP
2004
13 years 5 months ago
Variational Information Maximization for Neural Coding
Abstract. Mutual Information (MI) is a long studied measure of coding efficiency, and many attempts to apply it to population coding have been made. However, this is a computationa...
Felix V. Agakov, David Barber
SLSFS
2005
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Auxiliary Variational Information Maximization for Dimensionality Reduction
Abstract. Mutual Information (MI) is a long studied measure of information content, and many attempts to apply it to feature extraction and stochastic coding have been made. Howeve...
Felix V. Agakov, David Barber
IJON
2002
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13 years 4 months ago
Information transmission by stochastic synapses with short-term depression: neural coding and optimization
The ability of dynamic synapses with short-term depression to transmit the information present in the presynaptic spike train to the postsynaptic neuron is discussed. Both by mini...
Jaime de la Rocha, Angel Nevado, Néstor Par...
IJON
2007
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13 years 4 months ago
Information maximization in face processing
This perspective paper explores principles of unsupervised learning and how they relate to face recognition. Dependency coding and information maximization appear to be central pr...
Marian Stewart Bartlett

Book
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15 years 3 months ago
Information Theory, Inference, and Learning Algorithms
This book is aimed at senior undergraduates and graduate students in Engineering, Science, Mathematics, and Computing. It expects familiarity with calculus, probability theory, and...
David J. C. MacKay