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Alex Williams

3 accepted papers

2020

Point process models for sequence detection in high-dimensional neural spike trains

NeurIPS 2020oral

Sparse sequences of neural spikes are posited to underlie aspects of working memory, motor production, and learning. Discovering these sequences in an unsupervised manner is a longstanding problem in statistical neuroscience. Promising recent work utilized a convolutive nonnegative matrix factorizat…

2019

Reverse engineering recurrent networks for sentiment classification reveals line attractor dynamics

NeurIPS 2019poster

Recurrent neural networks (RNNs) are a widely used tool for modeling sequential data, yet they are often treated as inscrutable black boxes. Given a trained recurrent network, we would like to reverse engineer it--to obtain a quantitative, interpretable description of how it solves a particular task…

Cited by 104SourcePDFScholar
2019

Universality and individuality in neural dynamics across large populations of recurrent networks

NeurIPS 2019spotlight

Many recent studies have employed task-based modeling with recurrent neural networks (RNNs) to infer the computational function of different brain regions. These models are often assessed by quantitatively comparing the low-dimensional neural dynamics of the model and the brain, for example using ca…

Cited by 174SourcePDFScholar