Does the Brain Do Gradient Descent?

Explore the brain's potential use of gradient descent in learning processes with Konrad Kording in this engaging recorded session.

  • Konrad Kording
  • July 11, 2023
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Does the Brain do Gradient Descent?

About the Speaker

Konrad Kording runs his lab at the University of Pennsylvania. Konrad is interested in the question of how the brain solves the credit assignment problem and similarly how we should assign credit in the real world (through causality).
In extension of this main thrust he is interested in applications of causality in biomedical research. Konrad has trained as student at ETH Zurich with Peter Konig, as postdoc at UCL London with Daniel Wolpert and at MIT with Josh Tenenbaum. After a decade at Northwestern University, he is now PIK professor at UPenn.

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