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SUMMARY:Spiking Boltzmann Machines - Philip Sterne (University of Cambridg
 e)
DTSTART:20081110T110000Z
DTEND:20081110T120000Z
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CONTACT:Philip Sterne
DESCRIPTION:In this journal club we will cover the following paper:\n"Hint
 on and Brown (2000) - Spiking Boltzmann Machines":http://www.cs.toronto.ed
 u/~hinton/absps/nips00-ab.pdf\n\nAbstract:\n\n----------\n\nWe first show 
 how to represent sharp posterior probability distributions using real valu
 ed coefficients on broadly-tuned basis functions.  Then we show how the pr
 ecise times of spikes can be used to convey the real-valued coefficients o
 n the basis functions quickly and accurately. Finally we describe a simple
  simulation in which spiking neurons learn to model an image sequence by f
 itting a dynamic generative model.
LOCATION:TCM Seminar Room\, Cavendish Laboratory\, Department of Physics
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