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Context matters! Nevertheless, there has not been much research in exploiting contextual information in deep neural networks. For most part, the entire usage of contextual information has been limited to recurrent neural networks. Attention…

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Two fundamental questions in neurolinguistics concerns the brain regions that integrate information beyond the lexical level, and the size of their window of integration. To address these questions we introduce a new approach named…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-24 Alexandre Pasquiou , Yair Lakretz , Bertrand Thirion , Christophe Pallier

Biological brains have the capability to adaptively coordinate relevant neuronal populations based on the task context to learn continuously changing tasks in real-world environments. However, existing spiking neural network-based continual…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Bing Han , Feifei Zhao , Yang Li , Qingqun Kong , Xianqi Li , Yi Zeng

Animal behaviour depends on learning to associate sensory stimuli with the desired motor command. Understanding how the brain orchestrates the necessary synaptic modifications across different brain areas has remained a longstanding puzzle.…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2018-01-03 João Sacramento , Rui Ponte Costa , Yoshua Bengio , Walter Senn

Dendrites are crucial structures for computation of an individual neuron. It has been shown that the dynamics of a biological neuron with dendrites can be approximated by artificial neural networks (ANN) with deep structure. However, it…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2023-05-23 Jingyang Ma , Songting Li , Douglas Zhou

Dementia, a progressive neurodegenerative disorder, affects memory, reasoning, and daily functioning, creating challenges for individuals and healthcare systems. Early detection is crucial for timely interventions that may slow disease…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-03-04 Sahar Sinene Mehdoui , Abdelhamid Bouzid , Daniel Sierra-Sosa , Adel Elmaghraby

While deep neural networks have led to human-level performance on computer vision tasks, they have yet to demonstrate similar gains for holistic scene understanding. In particular, 3D context has been shown to be an extremely important cue…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-17 Yinda Zhang , Mingru Bai , Pushmeet Kohli , Shahram Izadi , Jianxiong Xiao

We present a comprehensive, novel framework for understanding how the neocortex, including the thalamocortical loops through the deep layers, can support a temporal context representation in the service of predictive learning. Many have…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2014-07-15 Randall C. O'Reilly , Dean Wyatte , John Rohrlich

Contextual information has been shown to be powerful for semantic segmentation. This work proposes a novel Context-based Tandem Network (CTNet) by interactively exploring the spatial contextual information and the channel contextual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-21 Zechao Li , Yanpeng Sun , Jinhui Tang

Recent years have witnessed a great development of Convolutional Neural Networks in semantic segmentation, where all classes of training images are simultaneously available. In practice, new images are usually made available in a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-17 Hanbin Zhao , Fengyu Yang , Xinghe Fu , Xi Li

Neural systems process information across a broad range of intrinsic timescales, both within and across cortical areas. While such diversity is a hallmark of biological networks, its computational role in nonlinear information processing…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-06-10 Tomoki Kurikawa

Convolutional neural networks (CNN) are known to learn an image representation that captures concepts relevant to the task, but do so in an implicit way that hampers model interpretability. However, one could argue that such a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-21 Diego Marcos , Ruth Fong , Sylvain Lobry , Remi Flamary , Nicolas Courty , Devis Tuia

Biological nervous systems constitute important sources of inspiration towards computers that are faster, cheaper, and more energy efficient. Neuromorphic disciplines view the brain as a coevolved system, simultaneously optimizing the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Jens Egholm Pedersen , Jörg Conradt , Tony Lindeberg

Context plays a crucial role in visual recognition as it provides complementary clues for different learning tasks including image classification and annotation. As the performances of these tasks are currently reaching a plateau, any extra…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-01 Mingyuan Jiu , Hichem Sahbi

Various neurophysiological and cognitive functions are based on transferring information between spiking neurons via a complex system of synaptic connections. In particular, the capacity of presynaptic inputs to influence the postsynaptic…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2018-10-30 Y. Dabaghian

Neural Processes (NPs) (Garnelo et al 2018a;b) approach regression by learning to map a context set of observed input-output pairs to a distribution over regression functions. Each function models the distribution of the output given an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-10 Hyunjik Kim , Andriy Mnih , Jonathan Schwarz , Marta Garnelo , Ali Eslami , Dan Rosenbaum , Oriol Vinyals , Yee Whye Teh

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…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2020-10-13 Lyudmila Kushnir , Sophie Denève

Neurons are spatially extended cells; different parts of a neuron have specific voltage dynamics. Important types of neurons even generate different spikes in different parts of the cell. Neurons' inputs are also often spatially…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2026-02-06 Audrey O'Brien Teasley , Gabriel Koch Ocker

Comparing with traditional text-to-speech (TTS) systems, conversational TTS systems are required to synthesize speeches with proper speaking style confirming to the conversational context. However, state-of-the-art context modeling methods…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-04-01 Jingbei Li , Yi Meng , Chenyi Li , Zhiyong Wu , Helen Meng , Chao Weng , Dan Su

Deep-predictive-coding networks (DPCNs) are hierarchical, generative models. They rely on feed-forward and feed-back connections to modulate latent feature representations of stimuli in a dynamic and context-sensitive manner. A crucial…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-09-27 Isaac J. Sledge , Jose C. Principe