Special Research topic in Frontiers of Neuroscience. Guest editors: T. Poggio (MIT),F. Anselmi (BCM), A. Patel (BCM), A. Tacchetti (Deep mind)

Title:  “Symmetry as a Guiding Principle in Understanding Neural Information Processing.” 

Researchers are invited to submit papers for this special edition.

For more information, or to submit a manuscript, please visit URL:

https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/15343/symmetry-as-a-guiding-principle-in-understanding-neural-information-processing

Submission deadline: April 13, 2021

The aim of this Research Topic is to cover promising, recent, and novel research trends regarding on the role of symmetry in shaping the learning/ information processing and neuronal organization in the brain, within a theoretical and computational perspective.

Areas to be covered in this Research Topic may include, but are not limited to:

• New architectures beyond convolutional networks: biologically plausible sensory representations that are simultaneously selective for object identity and invariant to nuisance variation (including but not limited to group transformations, beyond translations) in mammalian cortex.
• Sample complexity and invariant representations: is the brain using symmetries to perform efficient computation?
• Variants of common plasticity rules or new class of rules that incorporate sensory data symmetries: how can the brain discover data symmetries and learn to represent sensory input in an invariant way?
• Role of time continuity, crucial in the sensory experience, in defining classes of symmetries (implicit unsupervised labelling
  

For questions, please contact Prof. Fabio Anselmi via email: Fabio.Anselmi@bcm.edu