Abstract
AbstractDeep belief networks (DBNs) are stochastic neural networks that can extract rich internal representations of the environment from the sensory data. DBNs had a catalytic effect in triggering the deep learning revolution, demonstrating for the very first time the feasibility of unsupervised learning in networks with many layers of hidden neurons. These hierarchical architectures incorporate plausible biological and cognitive properties, making them particularly appealing as computational models of human perception and cognition. However, learning in DBNs is usually carried out in a greedy, layer-wise fashion, which does not allow to simulate the holistic maturation of cortical circuits and prevents from modeling cognitive development. Here we present iDBN, an iterative learning algorithm for DBNs that allows to jointly update the connection weights across all layers of the model. We evaluate the proposed iterative algorithm on two different sets of visual stimuli, measuring the generative capabilities of the learned model and its potential to support supervised downstream tasks. We also track network development in terms of graph theoretical properties and investigate the potential extension of iDBN to continual learning scenarios. DBNs trained using our iterative approach achieve a final performance comparable to that of the greedy counterparts, at the same time allowing to accurately analyze the gradual development of internal representations in the deep network and the progressive improvement in task performance. Our work paves the way to the use of iDBN for modeling neurocognitive development.
Funder
Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Padova e Rovigo
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Subject
Cognitive Neuroscience,Computer Science Applications,Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Cited by
12 articles.
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