Perturbing Hebbian Rules
Peter Dayan Geoff Goodhill
In NIPS 4, 19-26.
Abstract
Recently Linsker (1986) and MacKay and Miller (1990) have analysed
Hebbian correlational rules for synaptic development in the visual
system, and Miller (1989; Miller, Keller & Stryker, 1989) has studied
such rules in the case of two populations of fibres (particularly two
eyes). Miller's analysis has so far assumed that each of the two
populations has exactly the same correlational structure. Relaxing
this constraint by considering the effects of small perturbative
correlations within and between eyes permits study of the stability of
the solutions. We predict circumstances in which qualitative changes
are seen, including the production of binocularly rather than
monocularly driven units.
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