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Operational Rate-Distortion Performance of Single-source and Distributed Compressed Sensing
We consider correlated and distributed sources without cooperation at the
encoder. For these sources, we derive the best achievable performance in the
rate-distortion sense of any distributed compressed sensing scheme, under the
constraint of high--rate quantization. Moreover, under this model we derive a
closed--form expression of the rate gain achieved by taking into account the
correlation of the sources at the receiver and a closed--form expression of the
average performance of the oracle receiver for independent and joint
reconstruction. Finally, we show experimentally that the exploitation of the
correlation between the sources performs close to optimal and that the only
penalty is due to the missing knowledge of the sparsity support as in (non
distributed) compressed sensing. Even if the derivation is performed in the
large system regime, where signal and system parameters tend to infinity,
numerical results show that the equations match simulations for parameter
values of practical interest.Comment: To appear in IEEE Transactions on Communication
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Coordinated neuronal ensembles in primary auditory cortical columns.
The synchronous activity of groups of neurons is increasingly thought to be important in cortical information processing and transmission. However, most studies of processing in the primary auditory cortex (AI) have viewed neurons as independent filters; little is known about how coordinated AI neuronal activity is expressed throughout cortical columns and how it might enhance the processing of auditory information. To address this, we recorded from populations of neurons in AI cortical columns of anesthetized rats and, using dimensionality reduction techniques, identified multiple coordinated neuronal ensembles (cNEs), which are groups of neurons with reliable synchronous activity. We show that cNEs reflect local network configurations with enhanced information encoding properties that cannot be accounted for by stimulus-driven synchronization alone. Furthermore, similar cNEs were identified in both spontaneous and evoked activity, indicating that columnar cNEs are stable functional constructs that may represent principal units of information processing in AI
Stochasticity from function -- why the Bayesian brain may need no noise
An increasing body of evidence suggests that the trial-to-trial variability
of spiking activity in the brain is not mere noise, but rather the reflection
of a sampling-based encoding scheme for probabilistic computing. Since the
precise statistical properties of neural activity are important in this
context, many models assume an ad-hoc source of well-behaved, explicit noise,
either on the input or on the output side of single neuron dynamics, most often
assuming an independent Poisson process in either case. However, these
assumptions are somewhat problematic: neighboring neurons tend to share
receptive fields, rendering both their input and their output correlated; at
the same time, neurons are known to behave largely deterministically, as a
function of their membrane potential and conductance. We suggest that spiking
neural networks may, in fact, have no need for noise to perform sampling-based
Bayesian inference. We study analytically the effect of auto- and
cross-correlations in functionally Bayesian spiking networks and demonstrate
how their effect translates to synaptic interaction strengths, rendering them
controllable through synaptic plasticity. This allows even small ensembles of
interconnected deterministic spiking networks to simultaneously and
co-dependently shape their output activity through learning, enabling them to
perform complex Bayesian computation without any need for noise, which we
demonstrate in silico, both in classical simulation and in neuromorphic
emulation. These results close a gap between the abstract models and the
biology of functionally Bayesian spiking networks, effectively reducing the
architectural constraints imposed on physical neural substrates required to
perform probabilistic computing, be they biological or artificial
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