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We investigate the sparse functional identification of complex cells and the decoding of visual stimuli encoded by an ensemble of complex cells. The reconstruction algorithm of both temporal and spatio-temporal stimuli is formulated as a…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2017-06-20 Aurel A. Lazar , Nikul H. Ukani , Yiyin Zhou

We introduce an explainable generative model by applying sparse operation on the feature maps of the generator network. Meaningful hierarchical representations are obtained using the proposed generative model with sparse activations. The…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-01 Xianglei Xing , Song-Chun Zhu , Ying Nian Wu

We have developed a sparse mathematical representation of speech that minimizes the number of active model neurons needed to represent typical speech sounds. The model learns several well-known acoustic features of speech such as harmonic…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2012-09-25 Nicole L. Carlson , Vivienne L. Ming , Michael R. DeWeese

Biological circuits such as neural or gene regulation networks use internal states to map sensory input to an adaptive repertoire of behavior. Characterizing this mapping is a major challenge for systems biology, and though experiments that…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2022-10-12 Edward D. Lee , Xiaowen Chen , Bryan C. Daniels

This paper provides a novel approach for finding sparse state-space realizations of linear systems (e.g., controllers). Sparse controllers are commonly used in distributed control, where a controller is synthesized with some sparsity…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-31 Yaozhi Du , Jing Shuang Li

We explore a suite of generative modelling techniques to efficiently navigate and explore the complex landscapes of odor and the broader chemical space. Unlike traditional approaches, we not only generate molecules but also predict the odor…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-03 Mrityunjay Sharma , Sarabeshwar Balaji , Pinaki Saha , Ritesh Kumar

A mechanism is proposed for increasing selectivity of olfactory bulb projection neurons as compared to the olfactory receptor neurons, which could operate under low odor concentration, when the lateral inhibition mechanism becomes…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2021-11-09 Alexander Vidybida

Thus far, sparse representations have been exploited largely in the context of robustly estimating functions in a noisy environment from a few measurements. In this context, the existence of a basis in which the signal class under…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2009-06-26 Mohamed-Ali Belabbas , Patrick J. Wolfe

Sparse codes in neuroscience have been suggested to offer certain computational advantages over other neural representations of sensory data. To explore this viewpoint, a sparse code is used to represent natural images in an optimal control…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-08 Peter N. Loxley

Sparse coding algorithms are about finding a linear basis in which signals can be represented by a small number of active (non-zero) coefficients. Such coding has many applications in science and engineering and is believed to play an…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2016-08-14 András Lőrincz , Zsolt Palotai , Gábor Szirtes

Navigation by scent is a capability in robotic systems that is rising in demand. However, current methods often suffer from ambiguities, particularly when robots misattribute odours to incorrect objects due to limitations in olfactory…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Kordel K. France , Ovidiu Daescu

The validity of the dissipative quantum model of olfaction has not been examined yet and therefore the model suffers from the lack of experimental support. Here, we generalize the model and propose a numerical analysis of the dissipative…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2017-01-05 Arash Tirandaz , Farhad Taher Ghahramani , Vahid Salari

Sparse coding has been incorporated in models of the visual cortex for its computational advantages and connection to biology. But how the level of sparsity contributes to performance on visual tasks is not well understood. In this work,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Joshua Bowren , Luis Sanchez-Giraldo , Odelia Schwartz

Continual learning in computational systems is challenging due to catastrophic forgetting. We discovered a two layer neural circuit in the fruit fly olfactory system that addresses this challenge by uniquely combining sparse coding and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-23 Yang Shen , Sanjoy Dasgupta , Saket Navlakha

A new algorithm is proposed for a) unsupervised learning of sparse representations from subsampled measurements and b) estimating the parameters required for linearly reconstructing signals from the sparse codes. We verify that the new…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2010-11-02 Guy Isely , Christopher J. Hillar , Friedrich T. Sommer

Predicting the relationship between a molecule's structure and its odor remains a difficult, decades-old task. This problem, termed quantitative structure-odor relationship (QSOR) modeling, is an important challenge in chemistry, impacting…

Single unit recordings in the human medial temporal lobe (MTL) have revealed a population of cells with conceptually based, highly selective activity, indicating the presence of a sparse neural code. Building off previous work by the author…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2015-08-19 Andrew Magyar

Compressive sensing has been successfully used for optimized operations in wireless sensor networks. However, raw data collected by sensors may be neither originally sparse nor easily transformed into a sparse data representation. This…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-08-16 Mohammad Abu Alsheikh , Shaowei Lin , Hwee-Pink Tan , Dusit Niyato

Convolutional sparse representations are a form of sparse representation with a dictionary that has a structure that is equivalent to convolution with a set of linear filters. While effective algorithms have recently been developed for the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-09-06 Cristina Garcia-Cardona , Brendt Wohlberg

Which components in transformer language models are responsible for discourse understanding? We hypothesize that sparse computational graphs, termed as discursive circuits, control how models process discourse relations. Unlike simpler…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Yisong Miao , Min-Yen Kan