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Applied Brain Science - Computational Neuroscience (CNS)
Master of Science in Bionics Engineering
Instructors: Alessio Micheli (email) - Davide Bacciu (email)
Additional web page: http://www.di.unipi.it/~micheli/DID/CNS.htm
News
(07/04/2017) The lecture missed due to Easter holidays will be recovered on Thursday 20/04/2017, Room B24, from 10.30 to 13.30.
(21/02/2017) Course Didawiki updated with course information and first lesson for academic year 2016/17.
Course Information
Note for Computer Science Students
In academic year 2016/2017, “Machine Learning: neural networks and advanced models” (AA2) (Master programme in Computer Science - Corso di Laurea Magistrale in Informatica) is borrowed from CNS.
Weekly Schedule
The course is held on the second term. The preliminary schedule for A.A. 2016/17 is provided in table below.
| Day | Time | Room |
|---|---|---|
| Monday | 11.30-13.30 | SI3 (Polo B Ingegneria) |
| Wednsday | 15.30-18.30 | SI3 (Polo B Ingegneria) |
First lecture: Wednsday 01/03/2017
Objectives
The content of the Computational Neuroscience course includes:
- bio-inspired neural modelling, spiking and reservoir computing neural networks;
- advanced computational neural models for learning;
- architectures and learning methods for dynamical/recurrent neural networks for temporal data and the analysis of their properties;
- the role of computational neuroscience in real-world applications (by case studies).
Textbook and Teaching Materials
The official textbooks of the course are the following:
[IZHI] E.M. Izhikevich Dynamical Systems in Neuroscience: The Geometry of Excitability and Bursting The MIT press, 2007
[DAYAN] P. Dayan and L.F. Abbott Theoretical Neuroscience The MIT press, 2001
[NN] Simon O. Haykin Neural Networks and Learning Machines (3rd Edition), Prentice Hall, 2009
Additionally:
for the part of the course on bio-inspired neural modelling, it is also useful the book freely available online:
[GERSTNER] W. Gerstner and W.M. Kistler, Spiking Neuron Models: Single Neurons, Population, Plasticity. Cambridge University Press, 2002
for the second module of the course (Unsupervised and Representation Learning), it will be referenced material from a book freely available online:
[PANINSKI] W. Gerstner, W.M. Kistler, R. Naud and L. Paninski Neuronal Dynamics: From single neurons to networks and models of cognition Cambridge University Press, 2014
Lectures
| Date | Topic | References & Additional Material | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 01/03/17 (15.30-18.30) | Introduction to the course | Lecture 1 |
| 2 | 06/03/17 (11.30 - 13.30) | Introduction to Neural Modeling | Lecture 2 |
| 3 | 08/03/17 (15.30 - 18.30) | Conductance-based and Spiking Neuron Models | Lecture 3 |
| 4 | 13/03/17 (11.30 - 13.30) | Neural and Neuron-Astrocyte Modeling | Lecture 4 |
| 5 | 15/03/17 (15.30 - 18.30) | Implementing Spiking Neurons using Izhikevich's Model | Lab1-1-assignment |
| 6 | 20/03/17 (11.30 - 13.30) | Statistics for In-vitro neuro-astrocyte culture | Lecture 6 - seminar |
| 7 | 22/03/17 (15.30 - 18.30) | Introduction to Liquid State Machines | Lecture 7 |
| 8 | 27/03/17 (11.30 - 13.30) | Spikinglab2 - Liquid State Machines | Lab1-2-assignment |
| 9 | 29/03/17 (15.30-18.30) | Representation Learning - Synaptic Plasticity and Hebbian Learning | Lecture 8 References: [DAYAN] Sect. 8.1-8.3 [PANINSKI] Sect 19.1, 19.2.1, 19.3.1, 19.3.2 |
| 10 | 03/04/17 (11.30-13.30) | Associative Memories I - Hopfield Networks | Lecture 9 References: [DAYAN] Sect. 7.4 (Associative Memory part) [PANINSKI] Sect. 17.1, 17.2 |
| 11 | 05/04/17 (15.30-18.30) | Lab 2.1 - Hebbian learning and Hopfield networks | Assignment 2.1 |
| 12 | 10/04/17 (11.30-13.30) | Associative Memories II - Stochastic networks and Boltzmann machines | Lecture 10 References: [DAYAN] Sect. 7.6 Further readings: [1] A clean and clear introduction to RBM |
| 13 | 12/04/17 (15.30-18.30) | Lab 2.1b - Hebbian learning and Hopfield networks (continued) | |
| 17/04/17 (11.30-13.30) | No class due to Italian national holiday | ||
| 14 | 20/04/17 (10.30-13.30) | Lecture 11 Part 1: Adaptive Resonance Theory Part 2: Representation learning and deep NN Recovery Lesson: will be held in room B24 | Lecture 11 - Part 1 Lecture 11 - Part 2 References: [DAYAN] Sect. 10.1 Futher Readings: A gentle introduction to ART networks (with coding examples) can be found here [2] A classic divulgative paper from the initiator of Deep Learning [3] Recent review paper [4] A freely available book on deep learning from Microsoft RC |
| 15 | 03/05/17 (15.30-18.30) | Module conclusions and Lab 2.2 | Assignment 2.2 List of presentation and project topics for the second module |
| 16 | 08/05/17 (11.30-13.30) | Introduction to RNN: tasks and basic models | Lecture and info multifiles |
| 17 | 10/05/17 (15.30-18.30) | Introduction to RNN: properties and taxonomy; intro to learning by BPTT | Lecture and info multifiles (also RNN learning) |
| 18 | 15/05/17 (11.30-13.30) | Introduction to RNN: learning by RTRL | Lecture and info multifiles (RNN learning) plus blackboard notes |
| 19 | 17/05/17 (15.30-18.30) | Introduction to RNN: LAB3-1 - learning with IDNN and RNN | Info and assignment multifiles (see "RNN - LAB3-1" section). New version 1.1 |
| 20 | 22/05/17 (11.30-13.30) | Introduction to RNN: Reservoir Computing | Lecture and info multifiles (ESN) |
| 21 | 24/05/17 (15.30-18.30) | Introduction to RNN: LAB 3-2 - learning with ESN | Info and assignment multifiles (see "RNN - Lab2" section). |
| 22 | 29/05/17 (11.30-13.30) | Introduction to RNN: LABs 3-1 and 3-2 continue | Info and assignment multifiles |
Past Editions
Further Readings
[1] Geoffrey Hinton, A Practical Guide to Training Restricted Boltzmann Machines, Technical Report 2010-003, Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto, 2010
[2] G.E. Hinton, R. R. Salakhutdinov. Reducing the dimensionality of data with neural networks.Science 313.5786 (2006): 504-507.
3] Y. Bengio, A. Courville, and P. Vincent. Representation learning: A review and new perspectives. Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, IEEE Transactions on, Vol. 35(8) (2013): 1798-1828.
[4] L. Deng and D. Yu. Deep Learning Methods and Applications, 2014
[5] W. Maass, Liquid state machines: motivation, theory, and applications. Computability in context: computation and logic in the real world (2010): 275-296.
See other references in the slide notes.