Half-day Workshop: Neural Backpropagation

Schedule - Thursday December 5

11:30 – 12:30pm - Lunch

12:30 – 13:30pm - Blake Richards : Burst-timing-dependent synaptic plasticity can coordinate learning in hierarchical circuits

13:30 – 14:30pm - Irina Rish : Beyond Backprop: Online Alternating Minimization with Auxiliary Variables

14:30 – 15:00pm - Coffee & Tea Break

15:00 – 16:00pm - Gael Varoquaux : Benefits of majorant minorant over gradient descent for stochastic optimization

16:00 – 17:00pm - Yoshua Bengio : Towards Biologically Plausible Analogues of Backprop