Efficient coding (Barlow 1961)

Layer 3 — Biologyin the Computational Neuroscience subtree

Barlow 1961 efficient-coding hypothesis: sensory neurons reduce statistical redundancy; Olshausen-Field 1996 sparse-coding -> Gabor-like V1 receptive fields; ICA + sparse-PCA frameworks.

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Kullback-Leibler divergence

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