Summary
2011 International Symposium on Nonlinear Theory and Its Applications
2011
Session Number:B1L-C
Session:
Number:B1L-C4
Cortical microcircuits have no distinguished role in LSM information processing
Viktor Saase, Ruedi Stoop,
pp.358-361
Publication Date:2011/9/4
Online ISSN:2188-5079
Summary:
Cortical columns and their typical wiring are a puzzling phenomenon that is generally interpreted to have computational benefits. Echo State or Liquid State Machines are recurrent neural network paradigms that have been proven successful in the learning of action sequences, an aspect crucial to robotics. We scrutinize the recent assertion made by Mass and scholars that when to these frameworks biologically inspired neural network topologies are overlaid, they will increase their efficiency. A vast parameter survey performed on typical applications does, however, not support this hypothesis.