Learning efficient backprojections across cortical hierarchies in real time

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Hauptverfasser: Max, Kevin, Kriener, Laura, García, Garibaldi Pineda, Nowotny, Thomas, Jaras, Ismael, Senn, Walter, Petrovici, Mihai A.
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author Max, Kevin
Kriener, Laura
García, Garibaldi Pineda
Nowotny, Thomas
Jaras, Ismael
Senn, Walter
Petrovici, Mihai A.
author_facet Max, Kevin
Kriener, Laura
García, Garibaldi Pineda
Nowotny, Thomas
Jaras, Ismael
Senn, Walter
Petrovici, Mihai A.
contents Models of sensory processing and learning in the cortex need to efficiently assign credit to synapses in all areas. In deep learning, a known solution is error backpropagation, which however requires biologically implausible weight transport from feed-forward to feedback paths. We introduce Phaseless Alignment Learning (PAL), a bio-plausible method to learn efficient feedback weights in layered cortical hierarchies. This is achieved by exploiting the noise naturally found in biophysical systems as an additional carrier of information. In our dynamical system, all weights are learned simultaneously with always-on plasticity and using only information locally available to the synapses. Our method is completely phase-free (no forward and backward passes or phased learning) and allows for efficient error propagation across multi-layer cortical hierarchies, while maintaining biologically plausible signal transport and learning. Our method is applicable to a wide class of models and improves on previously known biologically plausible ways of credit assignment: compared to random synaptic feedback, it can solve complex tasks with less neurons and learn more useful latent representations. We demonstrate this on various classification tasks using a cortical microcircuit model with prospective coding.
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spellingShingle Learning efficient backprojections across cortical hierarchies in real time
Max, Kevin
Kriener, Laura
García, Garibaldi Pineda
Nowotny, Thomas
Jaras, Ismael
Senn, Walter
Petrovici, Mihai A.
Neurons and Cognition
Machine Learning
Neural and Evolutionary Computing
Models of sensory processing and learning in the cortex need to efficiently assign credit to synapses in all areas. In deep learning, a known solution is error backpropagation, which however requires biologically implausible weight transport from feed-forward to feedback paths. We introduce Phaseless Alignment Learning (PAL), a bio-plausible method to learn efficient feedback weights in layered cortical hierarchies. This is achieved by exploiting the noise naturally found in biophysical systems as an additional carrier of information. In our dynamical system, all weights are learned simultaneously with always-on plasticity and using only information locally available to the synapses. Our method is completely phase-free (no forward and backward passes or phased learning) and allows for efficient error propagation across multi-layer cortical hierarchies, while maintaining biologically plausible signal transport and learning. Our method is applicable to a wide class of models and improves on previously known biologically plausible ways of credit assignment: compared to random synaptic feedback, it can solve complex tasks with less neurons and learn more useful latent representations. We demonstrate this on various classification tasks using a cortical microcircuit model with prospective coding.
title Learning efficient backprojections across cortical hierarchies in real time
topic Neurons and Cognition
Machine Learning
Neural and Evolutionary Computing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.10249