Recently, a confluence between trends in neuroscience and machine learning has brought a renewed focus on unsupervised learning, where sensory processing systems learn to exploit the statistical structure of their inputs in the absence of explicit training targets or rewards. Sophisticated experimental approaches have enabled the investigation of the influence of sensory experience on neural self-organization and its synaptic bases. Meanwhile, novel algorithms for unsupervised and self-supervised learning have become increasingly popular both as inspiration for theories of the brain, particularly for the function of intermediate visual cortical areas, and as building blocks of real-world learning machines. Here we review some of these recent developments, placing them in historical context and highlighting some research lines that promise exciting breakthroughs in the near future.

Unsupervised learning of mid-level visual representations / Matteucci, Giulio; Piasini, Eugenio; Zoccolan, Davide. - In: CURRENT OPINION IN NEUROBIOLOGY. - ISSN 0959-4388. - 84:(2023), pp. 1-13. [10.1016/j.conb.2023.102834]

Unsupervised learning of mid-level visual representations

Matteucci, Giulio;Piasini, Eugenio;Zoccolan, Davide
2023-01-01

Abstract

Recently, a confluence between trends in neuroscience and machine learning has brought a renewed focus on unsupervised learning, where sensory processing systems learn to exploit the statistical structure of their inputs in the absence of explicit training targets or rewards. Sophisticated experimental approaches have enabled the investigation of the influence of sensory experience on neural self-organization and its synaptic bases. Meanwhile, novel algorithms for unsupervised and self-supervised learning have become increasingly popular both as inspiration for theories of the brain, particularly for the function of intermediate visual cortical areas, and as building blocks of real-world learning machines. Here we review some of these recent developments, placing them in historical context and highlighting some research lines that promise exciting breakthroughs in the near future.
2023
10.1016/j.conb.2023.102834
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38154417/
Matteucci, Giulio; Piasini, Eugenio; Zoccolan, Davide
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