TY - CONF AU - Nestler, Sandra AU - Keup, Christian AU - Dahmen, David AU - Gilson, Matthieu AU - Rauhut, Holger AU - Helias, Moritz AU - Bartolomaeus, Wiebke AU - Boutaib, Youness AU - Bouss, Peter AU - Merger, Claudia Lioba AU - Fischer, Kirsten AU - Rene, Alexandre AU - Schirrmeister, Robin AU - Ball, Tonio TI - Neural networks learning structure in temporal signals M1 - FZJ-2023-01742 PY - 2023 AB - Cortical networks are strongly recurrent, and neurons have intrinsic temporal dynamics. This sets them apart from deep feed-forward networks. Despite the tremendous progress in the application of feed-forward networks and their theoretical understanding, it remains unclear how the interplay of recurrence and non-linearities in recurrent cortical networks contributes to their function. The purpose of this work is to present a solvable recurrent network model that links to feed forward networks. By perturbative methods we transform the time-continuous,recurrent dynamics into an effective feed-forward structure of linear and non-linear temporal kernels. The resulting analytical expressions allow us to build optimal time-series classifiers from random reservoir networks. Firstly, this allows us to optimize not only the readout vectors, but also the input projection, demonstrating a strong potential performance gain. Secondly, the analysis exposes how the second order stimulus statistics is a crucial element that interacts with the non-linearity of the dynamics and boosts performance. T2 - Seminar Talk, Barak Lab CY - , Haifa (Israel) M2 - Haifa, Israel LB - PUB:(DE-HGF)31 UR - https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/1006605 ER -