Sparse Edge Encoder (SEE): I. Visual recognition in neuronal networks

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Main Authors: Lin, Chia-Ying, Sam, Mei Ian, Tsai, Yi-Ching, Lin, Hsiu-Hau
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author Lin, Chia-Ying
Sam, Mei Ian
Tsai, Yi-Ching
Lin, Hsiu-Hau
author_facet Lin, Chia-Ying
Sam, Mei Ian
Tsai, Yi-Ching
Lin, Hsiu-Hau
contents In the past few decades, there have been intense debates whether the brain operates at a critical state. To verify the criticality hypothesis in the neuronal networks is challenging and the accumulating experimental and theoretical results remain controversial at this point. Here we simulate how visual information of a nature image is processed by the finite Kinouchi-Copelli neuronal network, extracting the trends of the mutual information (how sensible the neuronal network is), the dynamical range (how sensitive the network responds to external stimuli) and the statistical fluctuations (how criticality is defined in conventional statistical physics). It is rather remarkable that the optimized state for visual recognition, although close to, does not coincide with the critical state where the statistical fluctuations reach the maximum. Different images and/or network sizes of course lead to differences in details but the trend of the information optimization remains the same. Our findings pave the first step to investigate how the information processing is optimized in different neuronal networks and suggest that the criticality hypothesis may not be necessary to explain why a neuronal network can process information smartly.
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spellingShingle Sparse Edge Encoder (SEE): I. Visual recognition in neuronal networks
Lin, Chia-Ying
Sam, Mei Ian
Tsai, Yi-Ching
Lin, Hsiu-Hau
Neurons and Cognition
Disordered Systems and Neural Networks
In the past few decades, there have been intense debates whether the brain operates at a critical state. To verify the criticality hypothesis in the neuronal networks is challenging and the accumulating experimental and theoretical results remain controversial at this point. Here we simulate how visual information of a nature image is processed by the finite Kinouchi-Copelli neuronal network, extracting the trends of the mutual information (how sensible the neuronal network is), the dynamical range (how sensitive the network responds to external stimuli) and the statistical fluctuations (how criticality is defined in conventional statistical physics). It is rather remarkable that the optimized state for visual recognition, although close to, does not coincide with the critical state where the statistical fluctuations reach the maximum. Different images and/or network sizes of course lead to differences in details but the trend of the information optimization remains the same. Our findings pave the first step to investigate how the information processing is optimized in different neuronal networks and suggest that the criticality hypothesis may not be necessary to explain why a neuronal network can process information smartly.
title Sparse Edge Encoder (SEE): I. Visual recognition in neuronal networks
topic Neurons and Cognition
Disordered Systems and Neural Networks
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.15278