Variational inference

…regression, regularisation and variational inference. Later sessions compare data-fusion strategies and Bayesian factor models while quantifying uncertainty in integrated biomedical datasets. Sessions: 30 November–4 December, 14:00–18:00 daily, Europe/Berlin (CET, UTC+01:00), with Slack discussion between meetings. Liv

Cognition arises from the coordinated interaction of multiple circuits with individual computational roles. While our ability to extract the dynamics underlying circuit computation from population activity recorded in individual areas, understanding how multiple areas jointly support distributed computation remains a challenge. Here we propose a novel multi-region statistical model which reflects a process level description of distributed neural computation. Specifically, the model includes local within-region nonlinear dynamics, potentially driven by task-specific inputs, and communication c