2025
What should a neuron aim for? Designing local objective functions based on information theory
Andreas Christian Schneider, Valentin Neuhaus, David Alexander Ehrlich, Abdullah Makkeh, Alexander S Ecker, Viola Priesemann +1
ICLR 2025oral
In modern deep neural networks, the learning dynamics of individual neurons are often obscure, as the networks are trained via global optimization. Conversely, biological systems build on self-organized, local learning, achieving robustness and efficiency with limited global information. Here, we sh…