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Attractor neural network is an important theoretical scenario for modeling memory function in the hippocampus and in the cortex. In these models, memories are stored in the plastic recurrent connections of neural populations in the form of…
The task of the brain is to look for structure in the external input. We study a network of integrate-and-fire neurons with several types of recurrent connections that learns the structure of its time-varying feedforward input by attempting…
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Despite the success of Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) in language reasoning, its application to autoregressive Text-to-Image (T2I) generation is often constrained by the limited availability of human preference data. This…
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