Key publications and related code

Interfacing adaptive control theory, machine learning and neuroscience for how we learn movement control:

A. Gilra and W. Gerstner. ‘Predicting non-linear dynamics by stable local learning in a recurrent spiking neural network’. eLife, 6:e28295, 2017. Access the recommendation on F1000Prime

Code at: https://github.com/adityagilra/FOLLOW.

 

A. Gilra and W. Gerstner. ‘Non-linear motor control by local learning in spiking neural networks’. Proceedings of the 35th International Conference on Machine Learning, PMLR 80:1768-1777, 2018. See also my ‘long talk’ at ICML 2018.

Code at: https://github.com/adityagilra/FOLLOWControl.

 

C. Klos, Y.F. Kalle Kossio, S. Goedeke, A. Gilra, R.-M. Memmesheimer.‘Dynamical Learning of Dynamics’. Phys Rev Lett. 2020;125: 088103. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.125.088103.

Code at: https://github.com/chklos/dynamical-learning.

  

Learning cognitive tasks without interference and forgetting:

R. V. Rikhye, A. Gilra & M. M. Halassa. ‘Thalamic regulation of switching between cortical representations enables cognitive flexibility’. Nature Neuroscience, volume 21, pages 1753–1763, 2018. Access the recommendation on F1000Prime

Code at: https://github.com/adityagilra/PFC_MD_weights_stability.

  

Memory-augmented neural networks for reinforcement learning:

M. Martinolli, W. Gerstner and A. Gilra, ‘Multi-timescale memory dynamics in a reinforcement learning network with attention-gated memory’. Front. Comput. Neurosci. | doi: 10.3389/fncom.2018.00050.

Code at: https://github.com/martin592/hybrid_AuGMEnT. This is part of a larger project archibrain on github, to which Marco Martinolli and Vineet Jain contributed, to synthesize biologically plausible neural architectures that perform complex cognitive tasks.

 

Computation by interneurons in the first sensory area (olfactory bulb) in the brain, of the sense of smell:

A. Gilra and U. S. Bhalla. ‘Bulbar microcircuit model predicts connectivity and roles of interneurons in odor coding’. PLOS ONE 10 (5): e0098045, 2015.

Code at: https://github.com/adityagilra/olfactory-bulb.

  

See my Google Scholar page or my ORCID page for a complete list.

See also my code for general-purpose neural simulation.