Analysis of the Stabilized Supralinear Network

DOI10.1162/NECO_A_00472zbMATH Open1415.92010arXiv1202.6670OpenAlexW2083883424WikidataQ39742774 ScholiaQ39742774MaRDI QIDQ5378241FDOQ5378241

Authors: Yashar Ahmadian, Daniel B. Rubin, Kenneth D. Miller 

Publication date: 12 June 2019

Published in: Neural Computation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study a rate-model neural network composed of excitatory and inhibitory neurons in which neuronal input-output functions are power laws with a power greater than 1, as observed in primary visual cortex. This supralinear input-output function leads to supralinear summation of network responses to multiple inputs for weak inputs. We show that for stronger inputs, which would drive the excitatory subnetwork to instability, the network will dynamically stabilize provided feedback inhibition is sufficiently strong. For a wide range of network and stimulus parameters, this dynamic stabilization yields a transition from supralinear to sublinear summation of network responses to multiple inputs. We compare this to the dynamic stabilization in the "balanced network", which yields only linear behavior. We more exhaustively analyze the 2-dimensional case of 1 excitatory and 1 inhibitory population. We show that in this case dynamic stabilization will occur whenever the determinant of the weight matrix is positive and the inhibitory time constant is sufficiently small, and analyze the conditions for "supersaturation", or decrease of firing rates with increasing stimulus contrast (which represents increasing input firing rates). In work to be presented elsewhere, we have found that this transition from supralinear to sublinear summation can explain a wide variety of nonlinearities in cerebral cortical processing.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1202.6670

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zbMATH Keywords

dynamic stabilizationrate-model neural networksupralinear input-output function

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Neural networks for/in biological studies, artificial life and related topics (92B20)

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