Biology – Quantitative Biology – Neurons and Cognition
Scientific paper
2008-01-13
Biology
Quantitative Biology
Neurons and Cognition
42 pages (including appendices and references); 13 figures
Scientific paper
Recent work on Long Term Potentiation in brain slices shows that Hebb's rule is not completely synapse-specific, probably due to intersynapse diffusion of calcium or other factors. We extend the classical Oja unsupervised model of learning by a single linear neuron to include Hebbian inspecificity, by introducing an error matrix E, which expresses possible crosstalk between updating at different connections. We show the modified algorithm converges to the leading eigenvector of the matrix EC, where C is the input covariance matrix. When there is no inspecificity, this gives the classical result of convergence to the first principal component of the input distribution (PC1). We then study the outcome of learning using different versions of E. In the most biologically plausible case, arising when there are no intrinsically privileged connections, E has diagonal elements Q and off- diagonal elements (1-Q)/(n-1), where Q, the quality, is expected to decrease with the number of inputs n. We analyze this error-onto-all case in detail, for both uncorrelated and correlated inputs. We study the dependence of the angle theta between PC1 and the leading eigenvector of EC on b, n and the amount of input activity or correlation. (We do this analytically and using Matlab calculations.) We find that theta increases (learning becomes gradually less useful) with increases in b, particularly for intermediate (i.e. biologically-realistic) correlation strength, although some useful learning always occurs up to the trivial limit Q = 1/n. We discuss the relation of our results to Hebbian unsupervised learning in the brain.
Adams Paul
Cox Kingsley
Radulescu Anca
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