VLDB 2026 Research / reviewers in the wild / expert
Eryn Sale
dblp:396/8713
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1ranked-venue papers
1as first author
1since 2021 · last 2024
—ORCID · none
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 1 · 1 first-author · 1 since 2021
Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.
| Artificial intelligence
1 paper |
Probabilistic and Bayesian machine learning · 100% |
Topics — the 3 heaviest of 3, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Machine learning › Probabilistic and Bayesian machine learning › statistical inference
bayesian inference |
0.8 | 1 | 2024 | The Bayesian sampling in a canonical recurrent circuit with a diversity of inhibitory interneurons · NeurIPS 2024 |
Machine learning › Probabilistic and Bayesian machine learning › sampling
neural sampling |
0.8 | 1 | 2024 | The Bayesian sampling in a canonical recurrent circuit with a diversity of inhibitory interneurons · NeurIPS 2024 |
Machine learning › Probabilistic and Bayesian machine learning › sampling
sampling-based inference |
0.8 | 1 | 2024 | The Bayesian sampling in a canonical recurrent circuit with a diversity of inhibitory interneurons · NeurIPS 2024 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
langevin sampling · 0.8hamiltonian sampling · 0.8attractor network · 0.8
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | The Bayesian sampling in a canonical recurrent circuit with a diversity of inhibitory interneuronsabstractAccumulating evidence suggests stochastic cortical circuits can perform sampling-based Bayesian inference to compute the latent stimulus posterior. Canonical cortical circuits consist of excitatory (E) neurons and types of inhibitory (I) interneurons. Nevertheless, nearly no sampling neural circuit models consider the diversity of interneurons, and thus how interneurons contribute to sampling remains poorly understood. To provide theoretical insight, we build a nonlinear canonical circuit model consisting of recurrently connected E neurons and two types of I neurons including Parvalbumin (PV) and Somatostatin (SOM) neurons. The E neurons are modeled as a canonical ring (attractor) model, receiving global inhibition from PV neurons, and locally tuning-dependent inhibition from SOM neurons.
We theoretically analyze the nonlinear circuit dynamics and analytically identify the Bayesian sampling algorithm performed by the circuit dynamics. We found a reduced circuit with only E and PV neurons performs Langevin sampling, and the inclusion of SOM neurons with tuning-dependent inhibition speeds up the sampling via upgrading the Langevin into Hamiltonian sampling. Moreover, the Hamiltonian framework requires SOM neurons to receive no direct feedforward connections, consistent with neuroanatomy. Our work provides overarching connections between nonlinear circuits with various types of interneurons and sampling algorithms, deepening our understanding of circuit implementation of Bayesian inference. Eryn Sale |
NeurIPS | 1 |