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Multi-Timescale Memory Dynamics Extend Task Repertoire in a Reinforcement Learning Network With Attention-Gated Memory

Overview of attention for article published in Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience, July 2018
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Title
Multi-Timescale Memory Dynamics Extend Task Repertoire in a Reinforcement Learning Network With Attention-Gated Memory
Published in
Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience, July 2018
DOI 10.3389/fncom.2018.00050
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Authors

Marco Martinolli, Wulfram Gerstner, Aditya Gilra

Abstract

The interplay of reinforcement learning and memory is at the core of several recent neural network models, such as the Attention-Gated MEmory Tagging (AuGMEnT) model. While successful at various animal learning tasks, we find that the AuGMEnT network is unable to cope with some hierarchical tasks, where higher-level stimuli have to be maintained over a long time, while lower-level stimuli need to be remembered and forgotten over a shorter timescale. To overcome this limitation, we introduce a hybrid AuGMEnT, with leaky (or short-timescale) and non-leaky (or long-timescale) memory units, that allows the exchange of low-level information while maintaining high-level one. We test the performance of the hybrid AuGMEnT network on two cognitive reference tasks, sequence prediction and 12AX.

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Country Count As %
Unknown 37 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 9 24%
Student > Ph. D. Student 6 16%
Student > Doctoral Student 4 11%
Student > Bachelor 4 11%
Researcher 3 8%
Other 2 5%
Unknown 9 24%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Computer Science 14 38%
Neuroscience 5 14%
Psychology 4 11%
Physics and Astronomy 2 5%
Linguistics 1 3%
Other 3 8%
Unknown 8 22%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 9. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 06 June 2019.
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#4,037,708
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#177
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#71,514
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#7
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