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Signatures and mechanisms of low-dimensional neural predictive manifolds

View ORCID ProfileStefano Recanatesi, Matthew Farrell, Guillaume Lajoie, View ORCID ProfileSophie Deneve, View ORCID ProfileMattia Rigotti, View ORCID ProfileEric Shea-Brown
doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/471987
Stefano Recanatesi
1University of Washington Center for Computational Neuroscience and Swartz Center for Theroetical Neuroscience; Seattle, WA
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Matthew Farrell
2Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Washington; Seattle, WA
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Guillaume Lajoie
3Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Universite de Montreal; Montreal, Canada
4Mila - Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute; Montreal, Canada
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Sophie Deneve
5Group for Neural Theory, Ecole Normal Superieur, Paris
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Mattia Rigotti
6IBM Research AI
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Eric Shea-Brown
1University of Washington Center for Computational Neuroscience and Swartz Center for Theroetical Neuroscience; Seattle, WA
2Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Washington; Seattle, WA
7Allen Institute for Brain Science; Seattle, WA
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Abstract

Many of the recent advances of neural networks in sequential tasks such as natural language processing applications hinge on the use of representations obtained by predictive models. This success is usually ascribed to the emergence of neural representations that capture the low-dimensional latent structure implicit in the task. Motivated by the recent theoretical proposal that the hippocampus performs its role in sequential planning by organizing semantically related episodes in a relational network, we investigate the hypothesis that this organization results from learning a predictive representation of the world. Using an artificial recurrent neural network model trained with predictive learning on a simulated spatial navigation task, we show that network dynamics exhibit low dimensional but non-linearly transformed representations of sensory input statistics. These neural activations that are strongly reminiscent of the place-related neural activity that is experimentally observed in the hippocampus and in the entorhinal cortex. We quantify these results using measures of intrinsic dimensionality, which indeed confirm that the neural representations obtained with predictive learning reflect the low-dimensional latent structure of the spatial environment underlying the sensory input presented to the network. Moreover, the dimensionality gain of the neural representations, a measure of the discrepancy between linear and intrinsic dimensionality, allows us to follow how this process evolves as learning unfolds.Finally, we provide theoretical arguments as to how predictive learning can extract the latent manifold underlying sequential signals, and discuss how our results and methods can aid the analysis ofexperimental data.

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Signatures and mechanisms of low-dimensional neural predictive manifolds
Stefano Recanatesi, Matthew Farrell, Guillaume Lajoie, Sophie Deneve, Mattia Rigotti, Eric Shea-Brown
bioRxiv 471987; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/471987
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Signatures and mechanisms of low-dimensional neural predictive manifolds
Stefano Recanatesi, Matthew Farrell, Guillaume Lajoie, Sophie Deneve, Mattia Rigotti, Eric Shea-Brown
bioRxiv 471987; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/471987

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