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William T Redman

5 accepted papers

2024

Global Distortions from Local Rewards: Neural Coding Strategies in Path-Integrating Neural Systems

NeurIPS 2024poster

Grid cells in the mammalian brain are fundamental to spatial navigation, and therefore crucial to how animals perceive and interact with their environment. Traditionally, grid cells are thought support path integration through highly symmetric hexagonal lattice firing patterns. However, recent findi…

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2024

Identifying Equivalent Training Dynamics

NeurIPS 2024spotlight

Study of the nonlinear evolution deep neural network (DNN) parameters undergo during training has uncovered regimes of distinct dynamical behavior. While a detailed understanding of these phenomena has the potential to advance improvements in training efficiency and robustness, the lack of methods f…

2024

Not so griddy: Internal representations of RNNs path integrating more than one agent

NeurIPS 2024poster

Success in collaborative and competitive environments, where agents must work with or against each other, requires individuals to encode the position and trajectory of themselves and others. Decades of neurophysiological experiments have shed light on how brain regions [e.g., medial entorhinal corte…

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2022

An Operator Theoretic View On Pruning Deep Neural Networks

ICLR 2022poster

The discovery of sparse subnetworks that are able to perform as well as full models has found broad applied and theoretical interest. While many pruning methods have been developed to this end, the naïve approach of removing parameters based on their magnitude has been found to be as robust as more…

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2022

Universality of Winning Tickets: A Renormalization Group Perspective

ICML 2022spotlight

Foundational work on the Lottery Ticket Hypothesis has suggested an exciting corollary: winning tickets found in the context of one task can be transferred to similar tasks, possibly even across different architectures. This has generated broad interest, but methods to study this universality are la…

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