ePoster · Machine Learning
Adversarial-inspired autoencoder framework for salient sensory feature extraction
Greta Horvathova, Dan Goodman · Bernstein Conference 2024
The natural world is full of noise, but the brain’s capacity for information transmission is severely limited. Therefore, discarding irrelevant information contained in sensory inputs while retaining salient features that are related to the input label, is key to survival. What are the salient features? And what are the underlying feature selection mechanisms? It is thought that the brain may implement information bottlenecks, which aim to optimise the trade-off between compression and preservation of salient information. However, information bottlenecks are notoriously difficult to implemen