Notes on the Shannon Entropy of the Neural Response

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Shakhnarovich, Greg; Bouvrie, Jake; Rosasco, Lorenzo; Smale, Steve
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Center for Biological and Computational Learning (CBCL)
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Tomaso Poggio
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Abstract
In these notes we focus on the concept of Shannon entropy in an attempt to provide a systematic way of assessing the discrimination properties of the neural response, and quantifying the role played by the number of layers and the number of templates.
Date issued
2009-10-09
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http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/49425
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CBCL-281MIT-CSAIL-TR-2009-049
Keywords
computer vision, artificial intelligence, neuroscience, computation
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