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August 21, 2019: By Martin Schrimpf

Deep Networks and Pytorch

Setup Instructions and Tutorial materials

Github link


August 7, 2019: By Eli Pollock

Training RNNs using full-FORCE learning

Setup Instructions and Tutorial materials

Github link


July 17, 2019: By Alex Lew

Probabilistic Programming Languages

Setup Instructions and Tutorial materials

Github link


June 26, 2019: By Ben Huh, Jennifer Hu and Peng Qian

Recurrent neural networks tutorial (vanilla RNNs & LSTMS)

Setup Instructions:

Please bring your laptops with the following installed before coming to the tutorial:

  1. Jupyter notebook: follow instructions at https://jupyter.org/install to install Jupyter notebook. Note that as mentioned on this page, you can also install both Jupyter notebook and Python using Anaconda.
  2. Python: download from https://www.python.org/downloads/ if you are not installing using Anaconda.
  3. PyTorch: follow instructions at https://pytorch.org/ to install PyTorch. Once installed, you should be able to do import torch in Python.
  4. Download the repo: git clone https://github.com/jennhu/rnn-tutorial.git

Tutorial materials

Github link


June 12, 2019: By Sugandha Sharma and Nhat Le

Building large scale neural models with the Nengo neural simulator

Setup Instructions:

Please bring your laptops with the following installed before coming to the tutorial:

  1. Python (download from https://www.python.org/downloads/). Python versions 3.5 and above are fine.
  2. Nengo
  • Use pip install nengo using the standard python installation system.
  • Once installed, you should be able to mport nengo in Python.
  • Nengo's only required dependency is NumPy, and pip should automatically install it when it installs Nengo. However if anything goes wrong, you can manually install NumPy. See instructions here under "Installing NumPy".
  1. Nengo GUI
  • Use "pip install nengo-gui" using the standard python installation system.
  • Once installed, you should be able to import nengo_gui in Python.
  • Nengo gui is accessed through a web browser (Google Chrome recommended). To start the Nengo GUI server, open a command line window and run nengo.

If you encounter any issues while using Nengo GUI, please file a bug report here (new issue -> bug report).

Tutorial materials

Tutorial slides, and code for a simplified newsome model (a model of context based decision making) can be found here .

Paper describing the above newsome model along with the detailed results: sharma_cogsci2016.pdf.

Nengo Website: https://www.nengo.ai/.
Neural Engineering Framework: summary.