Understanding high-dimensional phenomena is at the heart of many
fundamental questions in neuroscience. How does the brain process
sensory data? How can we model the encoding of the richness of the
inputs, and how do these representations lead to perceptual
capabilities and higher level cognitive function? Similarly, the
brain itself is a vastly complex nonlinear, highly-interconnected
network and neuroscience requires tractable, generalizable models
for these inherently high-dimensional neural systems.
Recent years have seen tremendous progress in high-dimensional
statistics and methods for "big data" that may shed light on
these fundamental questions. This workshop seeks to leverage these
advances and bring together researchers in mathematics, machine
learning, computer science, statistics and neuroscience to explore
the roles of dimensionality reduction and machine learning in
neuroscience.
Call for Papers
We invite high quality submissions of extended abstracts on topics including,
but not limited to, the following fundamental questions:
How is high-dimensional sensory data encoded in neural systems?
What insights can be gained from statistical methods in dimensionality
reduction including sparse and overcomplete representations?
How do we understand the apparent dimension expansion
from thalamic to cortical representations
from a machine learning and statistical perspective?
What is the relation between perception and high-dimensional statistical
inference? What are suitable statistical models for natural stimuli
in vision and auditory systems?
How does the brain learn such statistical models? What are the connections
between unsupervised learning, latent variable methods, online learning
and distributed algorithms? How do such statistical learning methods
relate to and explain experience-driven plasticity and perceptual learning in
neural systems?
How can we best build meaningful, generalizable models of the brain with
predictive value? How can machine learning be leveraged toward better design
of functional brain models when data is limited or missing? What role can
graphical models coupled with newer techniques for structured sparsity play
in this dimensionality reduction?
What are the roles of statistical inference in the formation and retrieval
of memories in the brain? We wish to invite discussion on the very open
questions of multi-disciplinary interest: for memory storage, how does the
brain decode the strength and pattern of synaptic connections? Is it
reasonable to conjecture the use of message passing algorithms as a model?
Which estimation algorithms can be used for inferring nonlinear and
inter-connected structure of these systems? Can new compressed sensing techniques
be exploited? How can we model and identify dynamical aspects and temporal responses?
We have invited researchers across a wide range of disciplines in electrical
engineering, psychology, statistics, applied physics, machine learning
and neuroscience with the goals of fostering interdisciplinary insights.
We hope that active discussions between these groups can set in motion
new collaborations and facilitate future breakthroughs
on fundamental research problems.
The target audience of this workshop includes industry and academic researchers interested in machine learning, neuroscience, big data and statistical inference.
Matthias Bethge,
Computational Neuroscience, University of Tübingen
Wolfgang Maass,
Computer Science, Gratz University of Technology
Important Dates
Submission deadline: 27 October 2013 11:59 PM PDT (UTC -7 hours)
Acceptance notification: 06 November 2013
Workshop date: 9 December 2013
Submission Info
Submissions should be in the NIPS_2013 format
with a maximum of four pages, not including references.
Paper submissions should be emailed to: hdnips2013@rctn.org
with a subject line of HDNIPS-FINALSUBMISSION:XXX where XXX is the
title of the submission.
NIPS 2013 Conference Lake Tahoe, Nevada
High-Dimensional Statistical Inference in the Brain
Description
Understanding high-dimensional phenomena is at the heart of many fundamental questions in neuroscience. How does the brain process sensory data? How can we model the encoding of the richness of the inputs, and how do these representations lead to perceptual capabilities and higher level cognitive function? Similarly, the brain itself is a vastly complex nonlinear, highly-interconnected network and neuroscience requires tractable, generalizable models for these inherently high-dimensional neural systems.Recent years have seen tremendous progress in high-dimensional statistics and methods for "big data" that may shed light on these fundamental questions. This workshop seeks to leverage these advances and bring together researchers in mathematics, machine learning, computer science, statistics and neuroscience to explore the roles of dimensionality reduction and machine learning in neuroscience.
Call for Papers
We invite high quality submissions of extended abstracts on topics including, but not limited to, the following fundamental questions:We have invited researchers across a wide range of disciplines in electrical engineering, psychology, statistics, applied physics, machine learning and neuroscience with the goals of fostering interdisciplinary insights. We hope that active discussions between these groups can set in motion new collaborations and facilitate future breakthroughs on fundamental research problems.
The target audience of this workshop includes industry and academic researchers interested in machine learning, neuroscience, big data and statistical inference.
Organizers
Confirmed Speakers
Important Dates
Submission deadline: 27 October 2013 11:59 PM PDT (UTC -7 hours)Acceptance notification: 06 November 2013
Workshop date: 9 December 2013
Submission Info
Submissions should be in the NIPS_2013 format with a maximum of four pages, not including references. Paper submissions should be emailed to: hdnips2013@rctn.org with a subject line of HDNIPS-FINALSUBMISSION:XXX where XXX is the title of the submission.