Synaptic plasticity as Bayesian inference

L Aitchison, J Jegminat, JA Menendez, JP Pfister… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
… The critical difference between our learning rules and classical ones is that the learning
rates themselves undergo plasticity. We derived three rules, based on three different …

Synaptic plasticity forms and functions

JC Magee, C Grienberger - Annual review of neuroscience, 2020 - annualreviews.org
… -based, Hebbian synaptic plasticity has been the primary focus of neuroscientists for decades,
it is inherently limited. Three-factor plasticity rules … to generate inferences and predictions …

Burst-dependent synaptic plasticity can coordinate learning in hierarchical circuits

A Payeur, J Guerguiev, F Zenke, BA Richards… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
… Therefore, one of the primary lessons from our model is that when local synaptic plasticity
rules are sensitive to high-frequency bursts, then pyramidal neurons possess the necessary …

[HTML][HTML] World model learning and inference

K Friston, RJ Moran, Y Nagai, T Taniguchi, H Gomi… - Neural Networks, 2021 - Elsevier
… , agents infer hidden states under plausible policies with a generative model based on a …
This means the agent predicts how it will behave and then verifies those predictions based on …

[HTML][HTML] Synaptic plasticity dynamics for deep continuous local learning (DECOLLE)

J Kaiser, H Mostafa, E Neftci - Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2020 - frontiersin.org
… in a deep layer cannot infer how a change in its … synaptic plasticity rule, DECOLLE, derived
from a surrogate gradient approach with linear scaling in the number of neurons. The rule

[HTML][HTML] Synaptic plasticity in human cortical circuits: cellular mechanisms of learning and memory in the human brain?

HD Mansvelder, MB Verhoog… - Current opinion in …, 2019 - Elsevier
… -dependent plasticity of adult human synapses, and then highlight rules and mechanisms
of … temporal sequences of unit activity are used to infer synaptic connectivity [72,73]. Recent …

[HTML][HTML] Computational psychiatry: from synapses to sentience

K Friston - Molecular psychiatry, 2023 - nature.com
… generative model is sometimes called self-evidencing [63]. In brief, active inference casts the
brain … For generative models based upon continuous states of the world, these schemes are …

[HTML][HTML] Self-organization toward criticality by synaptic plasticity

R Zeraati, V Priesemann, A Levina - Frontiers in Physics, 2021 - frontiersin.org
… plausible plasticity rules operating across multiple timescales are implemented in the models
and … of subsequent avalanche sizes allows inference about the underlying model and self-…

[HTML][HTML] Synaptic metaplasticity in binarized neural networks

A Laborieux, M Ernoult, T Hirtzlin, D Querlioz - Nature communications, 2021 - nature.com
… This real value is said to be “hidden,” as during inference, we only use its sign to get the
binary … 4 and 5, we provide a learning rule where synapses also feature a network of elements …

[HTML][HTML] Synaptic plasticity and mental health: methods, challenges and opportunities

LG Appelbaum, MA Shenasa, L Stolz… - …, 2023 - nature.com
… So-called, spike-timing-dependent plasticity (STDP) is a Hebbian learning rule in which the
… induced by TMS, they were able to infer the effective connectivity and activity, respectively. …