Feedforward Learning of Mixture Models

Abstract

We develop a biologically-plausible learning rule that provably converges to the class means of general mixture models. This rule generalizes the classical BCM neural rule within a tensor framework, substantially increasing the generality of the learning problem it solves. It achieves this by incorporating triplets of samples from the mixtures, which provides a novel information processing interpretation to spike-timing-dependent plasticity. We provide both proofs of convergence, and a close fit to experimental data on STDP.

Cite

Text

Lawlor and Zucker. "Feedforward Learning of Mixture Models." Neural Information Processing Systems, 2014.

Markdown

[Lawlor and Zucker. "Feedforward Learning of Mixture Models." Neural Information Processing Systems, 2014.](https://mlanthology.org/neurips/2014/lawlor2014neurips-feedforward/)

BibTeX

@inproceedings{lawlor2014neurips-feedforward,
  title     = {{Feedforward Learning of Mixture Models}},
  author    = {Lawlor, Matthew and Zucker, Steven W},
  booktitle = {Neural Information Processing Systems},
  year      = {2014},
  pages     = {2564-2572},
  url       = {https://mlanthology.org/neurips/2014/lawlor2014neurips-feedforward/}
}