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John Hertz (Nordita and KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden) | Network Inference with Hidden Units

When Jan 17, 2013
from 05:15 PM to 06:45 PM
Where Lecture Hall, Hansastr. 9a
Contact Name Stefan Rotter
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Abstract

We derive learning rules for finding the connections between units in stochastic dynamical networks from the recorded history of a “visible” subset of the units. We consider two models. In both of them, the visible units are binary and stochastic. In one model the “hidden” units are continuous-valued, with sigmoidal activation functions, and in the other they are binary and stochastic like the visible ones. We derive exact learning rules for both cases. For the stochastic case, performing the exact calculation requires, in general, repeated summations over an number of configurations that grows exponentially with the size of the system and the data length, which is not feasible for large systems. We derive a mean field theory, based on a factorized ansatz for the distribution of hidden-unit states, which offers an attractive alternative for large systems. We present the results of some numerical calculations that illustrate key features of the two models and, for the stochastic case, the exact and approximate calculations.

 

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