LETTER Communicated by Nakul Verma Safe Triplet Screening for Distance Metric Learning Tomoki Yoshida yoshida.t.mllab.nit@gmail.com Nagoya Institute of Technology, Gokiso-cho, Showa-ku, Nagoya, Aichi, 466-8555, Japan Ichiro Takeuchi takeuchi.ichiro@nitech.ac.jp Nagoya Institute of Technology, Gokiso-cho, Showa-ku, Nagoya,…

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ARTICLE Communicated by Simon Shaolei Du Every Local Minimum Value Is the Global Minimum Value of Induced Model in Nonconvex Machine Learning Kenji Kawaguchi kawaguch@mit.edu MIT, Cambridge, MA 02139, U.S.A. Jiaoyang Huang jiaoyang@math.harvard.edu Harvard University,…

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ARTICLE Communicated by Christopher Buckley A Novel Predictive-Coding-Inspired Variational RNN Model for Online Prediction and Recognition Ahmadreza Ahmadi ar.ahmadi62@gmail.com Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, Okinawa, Japan 904-0495, and School of Electrical Engineering, Korea Advanced…

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LETTER Communicated by Karl Friston A Minimum Free Energy Model of Motor Learning B. UN. Mitchell brian_a_mitchell@engineering.ucsb.edu Department of Computer Science, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA 931056, U.S.A. N. Lauharatanahirun nina.lauharatanahirun.civ@mail.mil Human…

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LETTER Communicated by Razvan Pascanu Effect of Depth and Width on Local Minima in Deep Learning Kenji Kawaguchi kawaguch@mit.edu MIT, Cambridge, MA 02139, U.S.A. Jiaoyang Huang jiaoyang@math.harvard.edu Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A. Leslie Pack…

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LETTER Communicated by Hugo G. Schnack Brain Morphometry Methods for Feature Extraction in Random Subspace Ensemble Neural Network Classification of First-Episode Schizophrenia Roman Vyškovský vyskovsky@iba.muni.cz Daniel Schwarz schwarz@iba.muni.cz Masaryk University, Faculty of Medicine, Institute of…

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LETTER Communicated by Karl Friston Systems of Bounded Rational Agents with Information-Theoretic Constraints Sebastian Gottwald sebastian.gottwald@uni-ulm.de Daniel A. Braun daniel.braun@uni-ulm.de Institute of Neural Information Processing, Faculty of Engineering, Computer Science and Psychology, University of Ulm,…

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ARTICLE Communicated by Anne Steinemann Diplomats’ Mystery Illness and Pulsed Radiofrequency/Microwave Radiation Beatrice Alexandra Golomb bgolomb@ucsd.edu UC San Diego School of Medicine, La Jolla, CA 92093, U.S.A. Importance: A mystery illness striking U.S. and Canadian…

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LETTER Communicated by Mark Van Rossum CosMIC: A Consistent Metric for Spike Inference from Calcium Imaging Stephanie Reynolds stephanie.reynolds09@imperial.ac.uk Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Centre for Neurotechnology, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ,…

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ARTICLE Communicated by Jeremy Manning The Discrete and Continuous Brain: From Decisions to Movement—And Back Again Thomas Parr thomas.parr.12@ucl.ac.uk Karl J. Friston k.friston@ucl.ac.uk Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, Institute of Neurology, University College London, WC1N…

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