ePoster · Computational Neuroscience
Meta-Learning the Inductive Biases of Simple Neural Circuits
Maria Yuffa · Neuromatch 5
Wed, Sep 28, 2022
Animals are presented with noisy and incomplete information from which we learn how to react in novel situations. For example, a given training set could have many explanations, each implying a different behavioural response; acting appropriately requires inferring the most plausible explanation. The way animals choose to wield Occam's razor, selecting the most parsimonious explanation, is called their inductive bias, and it is implicitly built into the operation of animals' neural circuits. This relationship between an observed sensory circuit and its inductive bias is a useful explanatory wi