A learning algorithm for cortex

How does the brain learn its internal representations?

Causal generative models

Approximate inference

Energy-based models

The standard way to find the serious rivals

A very surprising shortcut

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Autoencoders as generative models

Ways to restrict the code

A learning module

Bottom-up and top-down weights can be learned without considering the partition function

A picture of the learning procedure

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