Kavli Neuroscience Workshop
Julian and Friedemann very much enjoyed the Kavli Neuroscience extended workshop “Theories of neural computations in the era of large-scale recordings” in Trondheim. Thanks again to all the organizers and participants for a truly stimulatingContinue reading
High school students build neuronal circuits
At the annual Tage der Genforschung event, the FMI opens its doors to interested high school students from the neighboring cities. This year team members from our group showed the students how to build simpleContinue reading
Preprint: Theories of synaptic memory consolidation and intelligent plasticity for continual learning
We are happy to present our new preprint:Zenke, F., Laborieux, A., 2024. Theories of synaptic memory consolidation and intelligent plasticity for continual learning. https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.16922 It is a book chapter in the making which covers theContinue reading
Theoretical Neuroscience Podcast
In the 11th episode of the Theoretical Neuroscience Podcast Gaute and Friedemann discuss about end-to-end learning with spiking neurons and self-supervised learning.
Elucidating the theoretical underpinnings of surrogate gradient learning in spiking neural networks
Surrogate gradients (SGs) are empirically successful at training spiking neural networks (SNNs). But why do they work so well, and what is their theoretical basis? In our new preprint led by Julia, we answer theseContinue reading
Improving equilibrium propagation without weight symmetry through Jacobian homeostasis
We are happy our new paper “Improving equilibrium propagation (EP) without weight symmetry through Jacobian homeostasis,” led by Axel accepted at ICLR 2024. Preprint: https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.02214Code: https://github.com/Laborieux-Axel/generalized-holo-ep EP prescribes a local learning rule and uses recurrentContinue reading
The lab at NeurIPS 2023
We’re at NeurIPS with two papers this year. If you are in New Orleans, come to see us! Dis-inhibitory neuronal circuits can control the sign of synaptic plasticity. Rossbroich, J. and Zenke, F. (2023) doi:Continue reading