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ArticleScientific reports2023

A refined information processing capacity metric allows an in-depth analysis of memory and nonlinearity trade-offs in neurocomputational systems.

Tobias Schulte To Brinke, Michael Dick, Renato Duarte, Abigail Morrison

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Article in Scientific reports, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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Tobias Schulte To BrinkeInstitute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-6) and Institute for Advanced Simulation (IAS-6) and JARA-BRAIN Institute I, Jülich Research Centre, 52425, Jülich, Germany. t.schulte.to.brinke@fz-juelich.de.
Michael DickInstitute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-6) and Institute for Advanced Simulation (IAS-6) and JARA-BRAIN Institute I, Jülich Research Centre, 52425, Jülich, Germany.
Renato DuarteDonders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behavior, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
Abigail MorrisonInstitute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-6) and Institute for Advanced Simulation (IAS-6) and JARA-BRAIN Institute I, Jülich Research Centre, 52425, Jülich, Germany.

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Abstract

Since dynamical systems are an integral part of many scientific domains and can be inherently computational, analyses that reveal in detail the functions they compute can provide the basis for far-reaching advances in various disciplines. One metric that enables such analysis is the information processing capacity. This method not only provides us with information about the complexity of a system's computations in an interpretable form, but also indicates its different processing modes with different requirements on memory and nonlinearity. In this paper, we provide a guideline for adapting the application of this metric to continuous-time systems in general and spiking neural networks in particular. We investigate ways to operate the networks deterministically to prevent the negative effects of randomness on their capacity. Finally, we present a method to remove the restriction to linearly encoded input signals. This allows the separate analysis of components within complex systems, such as areas within large brain models, without the need to adapt their naturally occurring inputs.

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PMID37386240
PMCPMC10310772

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