Traveling Waves Encode the Recent Past and Enhance Sequence Learning

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2309.08045v2
• Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2024 02:29:44 GMT
• Title: Traveling Waves Encode the Recent Past and Enhance Sequence Learning
• Authors: T. Anderson Keller, Lyle Muller, Terrence Sejnowski, Max Welling,
• Abstract summary: Traveling waves of neural activity have been observed throughout the brain at a diversity of regions and scales. One physically inspired hypothesis suggests that the cortical sheet may act like a wave-propagating system. We introduce a model to fill this gap, which we denote the Wave-RNN (wRNN)
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• Abstract: Traveling waves of neural activity have been observed throughout the brain at a diversity of regions and scales; however, their precise computational role is still debated. One physically inspired hypothesis suggests that the cortical sheet may act like a wave-propagating system capable of invertibly storing a short-term memory of sequential stimuli through induced waves traveling across the cortical surface, and indeed many experimental results from neuroscience correlate wave activity with memory tasks. To date, however, the computational implications of this idea have remained hypothetical due to the lack of a simple recurrent neural network architecture capable of exhibiting such waves. In this work, we introduce a model to fill this gap, which we denote the Wave-RNN (wRNN), and demonstrate how such an architecture indeed efficiently encodes the recent past through a suite of synthetic memory tasks where wRNNs learn faster and reach significantly lower error than wave-free counterparts. We further explore the implications of this memory storage system on more complex sequence modeling tasks such as sequential image classification and find that wave-based models not only again outperform comparable wave-free RNNs while using significantly fewer parameters, but additionally perform comparably to more complex gated architectures such as LSTMs and GRUs.

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