METABOLIC COST AS AN ORGANIZING PRINCIPLE FOR COOPERATIVE LEARNING
This article investigates how neurons can use metabolic cost to facilitate learning at a population level. Although decision-making by individual neurons has been extensively studied, questions regarding how neurons should behave to cooperate effectively remain largely unaddressed. Under assumptions that capture a few basic features of cortical neurons, we show that constraining reward maximization by metabolic cost aligns the information content of actions with their expected reward. Thus, metabolic cost provides a mechanism whereby neurons encode expected reward into their outputs. Further, aside from reducing energy expenditures, imposing a tight metabolic constraint also increases the accuracy of empirical estimates of rewards, increasing the robustness of distributed learning. Finally, we present two implementations of metabolically constrained learning that confirm our theoretical finding. These results suggest that metabolic cost may be an organizing principle underlying the neural code, and may also provide a useful guide to the design and analysis of other cooperating populations.
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2013
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Authors: | BALDUZZI, DAVID ; ORTEGA, PEDRO A. ; BESSERVE, MICHEL |
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Advances in Complex Systems (ACS). - World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., ISSN 1793-6802. - Vol. 16.2013, 02, p. 1350012-1
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World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd. |
Subject: | Neural code | information theory | constrained reward maximization | synaptic plasticity | reinforcement learning | metabolic cost |
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