Denoising

…and a coach network that aligns denoising behaviour. It also considers personalised agents and reasoning under fixed compute budgets.

The human auditory system is robust to many types of corrupting noise. However, the neural mechanism that drives this robustness is unclear. Experimental evidence suggests that top-down predictions play an important role in processing stimuli in noisy contexts. Feedback connections are abundant in the auditory cortex, and have been hypothesized to carry predictive signals but are often omitted in large scale models. We evaluate the potential role of predictive dynamics in auditory robustness by introducing these dynamics into a large-scale model of the human auditory system. Specifically, we a

To prevail in a dynamic and noisy environment, the brain must create reliable and meaningful representations from sensory inputs that are often ambiguous or corrupt. Since only information that permeates the cortical hierarchy can influence sensory perception and decision-making, it is critical that noisy external stimuli are encoded and propagated through different processing stages with minimal signal degradation. Here we hypothesize that stimulus-specific pathways akin to cortical topographic maps may provide the structural scaffold for such signal routing. We investigate whether the featur