Plasticity-Mediated Competitive Learning

Abstract

Differentiation between the nodes of a competitive learning net(cid:173) work is conventionally achieved through competition on the ba(cid:173) sis of neural activity. Simple inhibitory mechanisms are limited to sparse representations, while decorrelation and factorization schemes that support distributed representations are computation(cid:173) ally unattractive. By letting neural plasticity mediate the compet(cid:173) itive interaction instead, we obtain diffuse, nonadaptive alterna(cid:173) tives for fully distributed representations. We use this technique to Simplify and improve our binary information gain optimiza(cid:173) tion algorithm for feature extraction (Schraudolph and Sejnowski, 1993); the same approach could be used to improve other learning algorithms.

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Text

Schraudolph and Sejnowski. "Plasticity-Mediated Competitive Learning." Neural Information Processing Systems, 1994.

Markdown

[Schraudolph and Sejnowski. "Plasticity-Mediated Competitive Learning." Neural Information Processing Systems, 1994.](https://mlanthology.org/neurips/1994/schraudolph1994neurips-plasticitymediated/)

BibTeX

@inproceedings{schraudolph1994neurips-plasticitymediated,
  title     = {{Plasticity-Mediated Competitive Learning}},
  author    = {Schraudolph, Nicol N. and Sejnowski, Terrence J.},
  booktitle = {Neural Information Processing Systems},
  year      = {1994},
  pages     = {475-480},
  url       = {https://mlanthology.org/neurips/1994/schraudolph1994neurips-plasticitymediated/}
}