Seminar Computational Intelligence F (708.116)

WS 2010/11

Institut f�r Grundlagen der Informationsverarbeitung (708)

O.Univ.-Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Maass

Office hours: by appointment (via e-mail)

E-mail: maass@igi.tugraz.at
Homepage: https://igi-web.tugraz.at/people/maass/

Location: IGI-seminar room, Inffeldgasse 16b/I, 8010 Graz
Date: starting on October 14th 2010, every Thursday, 16.15 - 18.00

Talks:

14.10.
Organization Meeting

4.11.
Johannes Bill
"Neural Dynamics as Sampling: A Circuit Model for Probabilistic Inference and Unsupervised Learning"
PDF

25.11.
Robert Legenstein
"A model for the self-organization of nonlinear neural computation through synaptic plasticity in dendritic branches"
PDF

Helmut Puhr
"Optimal neural representation of sensory information"
PDF

2.12.
David Kappel
"Learning of temporal relationships between hidden causes in network of spiking neurons"
PDF

9.12.
Sabine Schneider
-- Lee, Mumford, Hierarchical Bayesian inference in the visual cortex, 2003
http://cnbc.cmu.edu/ibsc/papers/lee_mumford.pdf
PDF

16.12.
Jing Fang
-- M. Steyvers, TL Griffiths: Rational analysis as a link between human memory and information retrieval, 2008
http://psiexp.ss.uci.edu/research/papers/ProbabilisticMindChapter_6.pdf
PDF

13.1.
Gregor H�rzer (on his work)
PDF

Othmar Gsenger
-- C. Bishop, Bayesian Hierarchical Mixture of Experts, UAI 2003
http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/cmbishop/downloads/Bishop-UAI-VHME.pdf
PDF

20.1.
Dejan Pecevski (on his own work)
PDF

Claudia Wagner
-- Shi, L., Feldman, N. H., & Griffiths, T. L. (2008). Performing Bayesian inference with exemplar models. Proceedings of the 30th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society http://cocosci.berkeley.edu/tom/papers/exemplar.pdf
PDF

24.1. (Monday!, 16.15)
Gerhard Neumann
PDF

Elmar R�ckert
PDF

27.1.
Stefan Klampfl
-- Gy�rgy Buzsaki, Neural Syntax: Cell Assemblies, Synapsemblies, and Readers, Neuron 68, 362-385, 2010, PDF, Suppl.
PDF

Safdar Zaman
-- M. Cetin, L. Chen, J. W. Fisher III, A. T. Ihler, R. L. Moses, M. J. Wainwright, and A. S. Willsky
Distributed Fusion in Sensor Networks, IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, 42, July 2006, PDF
PDF

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Literature:

D. Durstewitz, N. M. Vittoz, S. B. Floresco and J. K. Seamans
Abrupt Transitions between Prefrontal Neural Ensemble States Accompany Behavioral Transitions during Rule Learning
Neuron 66, 438-448, 2010, PDF (incl. suppl.)

M. Toussaint and K. Rawlik
Approximate Inference Control
Journal of Machine Learning Research, 2010 (Submitted), PDF

G. Buzsaki
Neural syntax: cell assemblies, synapsemblies and readers
Neuron, Manuscript Draft, PDF

R. Pascanu and H. Jaeger
A Neurodynamical Model for Working Memory
Preprint submitted to Neural Networks, 2010, PDF

A. Mazzoni, K. Whittingstall, N. Brunel, N. K. Logothetis and S. Panzeri
Understanding the relationships between spike rate and delta/gamma frequency bands of LFPs and EEGs using a local cortical network model
NeuroImage 52, 956-972, 2010, PDF