Dasheng Bi

Toward a mechanistic understanding of inference in visual cortex and diffusion models

Zeyu Yun, Alexander Belsten, Dasheng Bi, Zahra Kadkhodaie, Yubei Chen, Bruno A. Olshausen

We describe a model of perceptual inference in primary visual cortex (V1) equivalent to a minimal diffusion model whose function can be readily understood from its parameters. The model is based on sparse coding with a non-factorial prior over latent variables in the form of an u…Read more