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Computational exploration of molecular receptive fields in the olfactory bulb reveals a glomerulus-centric chemical map
© The Author(s) 2020. This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.Progress in olfactory research is currently hampered by incomplete knowledge about chemical receptive ranges of primary receptors. Moreover, the chemical logic underlying the arrangement of computational units in the olfactory bulb has still not been resolved. We undertook a large-scale approach at characterising molecular receptive ranges (MRRs) of glomeruli in the dorsal olfactory bulb (dOB) innervated by the MOR18-2 olfactory receptor, also known as Olfr78, with human ortholog OR51E2. Guided by an iterative approach that combined biological screening and machine learning, we selected 214 odorants to characterise the response of MOR18-2 and its neighbouring glomeruli. We found that a combination of conventional physico-chemical and vibrational molecular descriptors performed best in predicting glomerular responses using nonlinear Support-Vector Regression. We also discovered several previously unknown odorants activating MOR18-2 glomeruli, and obtained detailed MRRs of MOR18-2 glomeruli and their neighbours. Our results confirm earlier findings that demonstrated tunotopy, that is, glomeruli with similar tuning curves tend to be located in spatial proximity in the dOB. In addition, our results indicate chemotopy, that is, a preference for glomeruli with similar physico-chemical MRR descriptions being located in spatial proximity. Together, these findings suggest the existence of a partial chemical map underlying glomerular arrangement in the dOB. Our methodology that combines machine learning and physiological measurements lights the way towards future high-throughput studies to deorphanise and characterise structure-activity relationships in olfaction.Peer reviewe
Broadcasting Convolutional Network for Visual Relational Reasoning
In this paper, we propose the Broadcasting Convolutional Network (BCN) that
extracts key object features from the global field of an entire input image and
recognizes their relationship with local features. BCN is a simple network
module that collects effective spatial features, embeds location information
and broadcasts them to the entire feature maps. We further introduce the
Multi-Relational Network (multiRN) that improves the existing Relation Network
(RN) by utilizing the BCN module. In pixel-based relation reasoning problems,
with the help of BCN, multiRN extends the concept of `pairwise relations' in
conventional RNs to `multiwise relations' by relating each object with multiple
objects at once. This yields in O(n) complexity for n objects, which is a vast
computational gain from RNs that take O(n^2). Through experiments, multiRN has
achieved a state-of-the-art performance on CLEVR dataset, which proves the
usability of BCN on relation reasoning problems.Comment: Accepted paper at ECCV 2018. 24 page
Theoretical Interpretations and Applications of Radial Basis Function Networks
Medical applications usually used Radial Basis Function Networks just as Artificial Neural Networks. However, RBFNs are Knowledge-Based Networks that can be interpreted in several way: Artificial Neural Networks, Regularization Networks, Support Vector Machines, Wavelet Networks, Fuzzy Controllers, Kernel Estimators, Instanced-Based Learners. A survey of their interpretations and of their corresponding learning algorithms is provided as well as a brief survey on dynamic learning algorithms. RBFNs' interpretations can suggest applications that are particularly interesting in medical domains
Representation learning with reward prediction errors
The Reward Prediction Error hypothesis proposes that phasic activity in the
midbrain dopaminergic system reflects prediction errors needed for learning in
reinforcement learning. Besides the well-documented association between
dopamine and reward processing, dopamine is implicated in a variety of
functions without a clear relationship to reward prediction error. Fluctuations
in dopamine levels influence the subjective perception of time, dopamine bursts
precede the generation of motor responses, and the dopaminergic system
innervates regions of the brain, including hippocampus and areas in prefrontal
cortex, whose function is not uniquely tied to reward. In this manuscript, we
propose that a common theme linking these functions is representation, and that
prediction errors signaled by the dopamine system, in addition to driving
associative learning, can also support the acquisition of adaptive state
representations. In a series of simulations, we show how this extension can
account for the role of dopamine in temporal and spatial representation, motor
response, and abstract categorization tasks. By extending the role of dopamine
signals to learning state representations, we resolve a critical challenge to
the Reward Prediction Error hypothesis of dopamine function
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