Portrait de Yoshua Bengio

Yoshua Bengio

Membre académique principal
Chaire en IA Canada-CIFAR
Professeur titulaire, Université de Montréal, Département d'informatique et de recherche opérationnelle
Fondateur et Conseiller scientifique, Équipe de direction
Sujets de recherche
Apprentissage automatique médical
Apprentissage de représentations
Apprentissage par renforcement
Apprentissage profond
Causalité
Modèles génératifs
Modèles probabilistes
Modélisation moléculaire
Neurosciences computationnelles
Raisonnement
Réseaux de neurones en graphes
Réseaux de neurones récurrents
Théorie de l'apprentissage automatique
Traitement du langage naturel
Site web
Google Scholar

Biographie

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Reconnu comme une sommité mondiale en intelligence artificielle, Yoshua Bengio s’est surtout distingué par son rôle de pionnier en apprentissage profond, ce qui lui a valu le prix A. M. Turing 2018, le « prix Nobel de l’informatique », avec Geoffrey Hinton et Yann LeCun. Il est professeur titulaire à l’Université de Montréal, fondateur et conseiller scientifique de Mila – Institut québécois d’intelligence artificielle, et codirige en tant que senior fellow le programme Apprentissage automatique, apprentissage biologique de l'Institut canadien de recherches avancées (CIFAR). Il occupe également la fonction de conseiller spécial et directeur scientifique fondateur d’IVADO.

En 2018, il a été l’informaticien qui a recueilli le plus grand nombre de nouvelles citations au monde. En 2019, il s’est vu décerner le prestigieux prix Killam. Depuis 2022, il détient le plus grand facteur d’impact (h-index) en informatique à l’échelle mondiale. Il est fellow de la Royal Society de Londres et de la Société royale du Canada, et officier de l’Ordre du Canada.

Soucieux des répercussions sociales de l’IA et de l’objectif que l’IA bénéficie à tous, il a contribué activement à la Déclaration de Montréal pour un développement responsable de l’intelligence artificielle.

Étudiants actuels

Jamal Abou Haibeh
Collaborateur·rice alumni - McGill
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Mohammed Abukalam
Collaborateur·rice alumni - UdeM
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Berkes Anaïs
Collaborateur·rice de recherche - Cambridge University
Superviseur⋅e principal⋅e :
David Rolnick
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Github
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Rim Assouel
Doctorat - UdeM
Junyeob BAEK
Visiteur de recherche indépendant - KAIST
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Stefan Bauer
Visiteur de recherche indépendant
Co-superviseur⋅e :
Guillaume Lajoie
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Paul Bertin
Doctorat - UdeM
Shahana Chatterjee
Collaborateur·rice de recherche - N/A
Superviseur⋅e principal⋅e :
David Rolnick
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Xiaoyin Chen
Doctorat - UdeM
Sanghyeok Choi
Collaborateur·rice de recherche - KAIST
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Github
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Tristan Deleu
Doctorat - UdeM
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Aniket Didolkar
Doctorat - UdeM
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Abdessamad EL KABID
Stagiaire de recherche - UdeM
Co-superviseur⋅e :
Loubna Benabbou
Github
Eric Elmoznino
Doctorat - UdeM
Co-superviseur⋅e :
Guillaume Lajoie
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Github
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Léna Ezzine
Doctorat - UdeM
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Jean-Pierre Falet
Doctorat - UdeM
Co-superviseur⋅e :
Guillaume Lajoie
Site web
Github
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Leo Feng
Doctorat - UdeM
leo.feng@mila.quebec
Site web
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Ivan Grega
Stagiaire de recherche - UdeM
Github
Pietro Greiner
Doctorat
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Mohsin Hasan
Doctorat - UdeM
mohsin.hasan@mila.quebec
Site web
Github
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Edward Hu
Doctorat - UdeM
Moksh Jain
Doctorat - UdeM
moksh.jain@mila.quebec
Site web
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Thomas Jiralerspong
Doctorat - UdeM
Superviseur⋅e principal⋅e :
Guillaume Lajoie
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Younesse Kaddar
Collaborateur·rice alumni - UdeM
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Hyeonah Kim
Postdoctorat - UdeM
Superviseur⋅e principal⋅e :
Alex Hernandez
Yaroslav KIVVA
Collaborateur·rice de recherche - UdeM
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Salem Lahlou
Collaborateur·rice alumni - UdeM
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Tabitha Edith Lee
Postdoctorat - UdeM
Superviseur⋅e principal⋅e :
Glen Berseth
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Seanie Lee
Collaborateur·rice alumni - UdeM
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Zhen Liu
Collaborateur·rice alumni - UdeM
Superviseur⋅e principal⋅e :
Liam Paull
Chenghao Liu
Collaborateur·rice alumni
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Kanika Madan
Doctorat - UdeM
Nikolay Malkin
Collaborateur·rice alumni - UdeM
Site web
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Cristian Dragos Manta
Doctorat - UdeM
Co-superviseur⋅e :
Dhanya Sridhar
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Sören Mindermann
Collaborateur·rice de recherche - UdeM
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Sarthak Mittal
Doctorat - UdeM
Superviseur⋅e principal⋅e :
Guillaume Lajoie
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Jama Mohamud
Doctorat - UdeM
Superviseur⋅e principal⋅e :
Mirco Ravanelli
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Cyrus Neary
Postdoctorat - UdeM
Superviseur⋅e principal⋅e :
Glen Berseth
Site web
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Phong Nguyen
Visiteur de recherche indépendant - UdeM
Padideh Nouri
Doctorat - UdeM
Superviseur⋅e principal⋅e :
Doina Precup
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Github
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Ali Parviz
Collaborateur·rice de recherche - Ying Wu Coll of Computing
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Lena Podina
Doctorat - University of Waterloo
Superviseur⋅e principal⋅e :
David Rolnick
Github
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Nassim Rahaman
Collaborateur·rice alumni - Max-Planck-Institute for Intelligent Systems
Amine RAZIG
Stagiaire de recherche - UdeM
Co-superviseur⋅e :
Loubna Benabbou
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Jarrid Rector-Brooks
Doctorat - UdeM
Danyal REHMAN
Postdoctorat - UdeM
Github
James Requeima
Visiteur de recherche indépendant - UdeM
Oli RICHARDSON
Postdoctorat - UdeM
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Camille Rochefort-Boulanger
Doctorat - UdeM
Superviseur⋅e principal⋅e :
Julie Hussin
Github
Victor Schmidt
Collaborateur·rice alumni - UdeM
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Github
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Luca Scimeca
Postdoctorat - UdeM
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Dragos Secrieru
Maîtrise recherche - UdeM
Marcin Sendera
Collaborateur·rice alumni - UdeM
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Vedant Shah
Maîtrise recherche - UdeM
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Divya Sharma
Postdoctorat
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Marco Stock
Visiteur de recherche indépendant - Technical University of Munich
marco.stock@tum.de
Github
Mélisande Astrid Crystal Teng
Doctorat - UdeM
Co-superviseur⋅e :
Hugo Larochelle
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Github
Alex Tong
Postdoctorat - UdeM
alexander.tong@mila.quebec
Site web
Github
Google Scholar
Donna Vakalis
Postdoctorat - UdeM
Co-superviseur⋅e :
David Rolnick
Site web
Github
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Siddarth Venkatraman
Doctorat - UdeM
Superviseur⋅e principal⋅e :
Glen Berseth
Site web
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Leah WAIRIMU
Collaborateur·rice de recherche - UdeM
Github
Omar G. Younis
Collaborateur·rice de recherche
Site web
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Taeyoung YUN
Collaborateur·rice de recherche - KAIST
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Tianyu Zhang
Doctorat - UdeM
Site web
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Nicole Zhang
Doctorat - McGill
Superviseur⋅e principal⋅e :
Mathieu Blanchette
Github
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Dinghuai Zhang
Doctorat - UdeM
Superviseur⋅e principal⋅e :
Aaron Courville
Site web
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Harry Zhao
Doctorat - McGill
Superviseur⋅e principal⋅e :
Doina Precup
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Publications

Simulation-Free Schrödinger Bridges via Score and Flow Matching
Alexander Tong
Nikolay Malkin
Kilian FATRAS
Lazar Atanackovic
Yanlei Zhang
Guillaume Huguet
Guy Wolf
Yoshua Bengio
We present simulation-free score and flow matching ([SF]…
2024-01-01
AISTATS (publié)
doi.org
openreview.net
A Hitchhiker's Guide to Geometric GNNs for 3D Atomic Systems
Alexandre AGM Duval
Simon V. Mathis
Chaitanya K. Joshi
Victor Schmidt
Santiago Miret
Fragkiskos D. Malliaros
Taco Cohen
Pietro Lio’
Yoshua Bengio
Michael M. Bronstein
2023-12-12
ArXiv (prépublication)
doi.org
arxiv.org
A Hitchhiker's Guide to Geometric GNNs for 3D Atomic Systems
Alexandre AGM Duval
Simon V. Mathis
Chaitanya K. Joshi
Victor Schmidt
Santiago Miret
Fragkiskos D. Malliaros
Taco Cohen
Pietro Lio’
Yoshua Bengio
Michael M. Bronstein
Recent advances in computational modelling of atomic systems, spanning molecules, proteins, and materials, represent them as geometric graph… (voir plus)s with atoms embedded as nodes in 3D Euclidean space. In these graphs, the geometric attributes transform according to the inherent physical symmetries of 3D atomic systems, including rotations and translations in Euclidean space, as well as node permutations. In recent years, Geometric Graph Neural Networks have emerged as the preferred machine learning architecture powering applications ranging from protein structure prediction to molecular simulations and material generation. Their specificity lies in the inductive biases they leverage - such as physical symmetries and chemical properties - to learn informative representations of these geometric graphs. In this opinionated paper, we provide a comprehensive and self-contained overview of the field of Geometric GNNs for 3D atomic systems. We cover fundamental background material and introduce a pedagogical taxonomy of Geometric GNN architectures: (1) invariant networks, (2) equivariant networks in Cartesian basis, (3) equivariant networks in spherical basis, and (4) unconstrained networks. Additionally, we outline key datasets and application areas and suggest future research directions. The objective of this work is to present a structured perspective on the field, making it accessible to newcomers and aiding practitioners in gaining an intuition for its mathematical abstractions.
2023-12-12
ArXiv (prépublication)
doi.org
arxiv.org
A Hitchhiker's Guide to Geometric GNNs for 3D Atomic Systems
Alexandre AGM Duval
Simon V. Mathis
Chaitanya K. Joshi
Victor Schmidt
Santiago Miret
Fragkiskos D. Malliaros
Taco Cohen
Pietro Lio’
Yoshua Bengio
Michael M. Bronstein
Recent advances in computational modelling of atomic systems, spanning molecules, proteins, and materials, represent them as geometric graph… (voir plus)s with atoms embedded as nodes in 3D Euclidean space. In these graphs, the geometric attributes transform according to the inherent physical symmetries of 3D atomic systems, including rotations and translations in Euclidean space, as well as node permutations. In recent years, Geometric Graph Neural Networks have emerged as the preferred machine learning architecture powering applications ranging from protein structure prediction to molecular simulations and material generation. Their specificity lies in the inductive biases they leverage - such as physical symmetries and chemical properties - to learn informative representations of these geometric graphs. In this opinionated paper, we provide a comprehensive and self-contained overview of the field of Geometric GNNs for 3D atomic systems. We cover fundamental background material and introduce a pedagogical taxonomy of Geometric GNN architectures: (1) invariant networks, (2) equivariant networks in Cartesian basis, (3) equivariant networks in spherical basis, and (4) unconstrained networks. Additionally, we outline key datasets and application areas and suggest future research directions. The objective of this work is to present a structured perspective on the field, making it accessible to newcomers and aiding practitioners in gaining an intuition for its mathematical abstractions.
2023-12-12
ArXiv (prépublication)
doi.org
arxiv.org
A Hitchhiker's Guide to Geometric GNNs for 3D Atomic Systems
Alexandre AGM Duval
Simon V. Mathis
Chaitanya K. Joshi
Victor Schmidt
Santiago Miret
Fragkiskos D. Malliaros
Taco Cohen
Pietro Lio’
Yoshua Bengio
Michael M. Bronstein
Recent advances in computational modelling of atomic systems, spanning molecules, proteins, and materials, represent them as geometric graph… (voir plus)s with atoms embedded as nodes in 3D Euclidean space. In these graphs, the geometric attributes transform according to the inherent physical symmetries of 3D atomic systems, including rotations and translations in Euclidean space, as well as node permutations. In recent years, Geometric Graph Neural Networks have emerged as the preferred machine learning architecture powering applications ranging from protein structure prediction to molecular simulations and material generation. Their specificity lies in the inductive biases they leverage - such as physical symmetries and chemical properties - to learn informative representations of these geometric graphs. In this opinionated paper, we provide a comprehensive and self-contained overview of the field of Geometric GNNs for 3D atomic systems. We cover fundamental background material and introduce a pedagogical taxonomy of Geometric GNN architectures: (1) invariant networks, (2) equivariant networks in Cartesian basis, (3) equivariant networks in spherical basis, and (4) unconstrained networks. Additionally, we outline key datasets and application areas and suggest future research directions. The objective of this work is to present a structured perspective on the field, making it accessible to newcomers and aiding practitioners in gaining an intuition for its mathematical abstractions.
2023-12-12
ArXiv (prépublication)
doi.org
arxiv.org
Improving Gradient-guided Nested Sampling for Posterior Inference
Pablo Lemos
Will Handley
Nikolay Malkin
Yoshua Bengio
Yashar Hezaveh
Laurence Perreault-Levasseur
We present a performant, general-purpose gradient-guided nested sampling algorithm, …
2023-12-06
ArXiv (preprint)
doi.org
openreview.net
Unlearning via Sparse Representations
Vedant Shah
Frederik Träuble
Ashish Malik
Hugo Larochelle
Michael Curtis Mozer
Sanjeev Arora
Yoshua Bengio
Anirudh Goyal
2023-11-26
ArXiv (preprint)
doi.org
openreview.net
Unlearning via Sparse Representations
Vedant Shah
Frederik Träuble
Ashish Malik
Hugo Larochelle
Michael Curtis Mozer
Sanjeev Arora
Yoshua Bengio
Anirudh Goyal
Machine \emph{unlearning}, which involves erasing knowledge about a \emph{forget set} from a trained model, can prove to be costly and infea… (voir plus)sible by existing techniques. We propose a nearly compute-free zero-shot unlearning technique based on a discrete representational bottleneck. We show that the proposed technique efficiently unlearns the forget set and incurs negligible damage to the model's performance on the rest of the data set. We evaluate the proposed technique on the problem of \textit{class unlearning} using three datasets: CIFAR-10, CIFAR-100, and LACUNA-100. We compare the proposed technique to SCRUB, a state-of-the-art approach which uses knowledge distillation for unlearning. Across all three datasets, the proposed technique performs as well as, if not better than SCRUB while incurring almost no computational cost.
2023-11-26
ArXiv (prépublication)
doi.org
arxiv.org
Mitigating Biases with Diverse Ensembles and Diffusion Models
Luca Scimeca
Alexander Rubinstein
Damien Teney
Seong Joon Oh
Armand Mihai Nicolicioiu
Yoshua Bengio
Spurious correlations in the data, where multiple cues are predictive of the target labels, often lead to a phenomenon known as shortcut lea… (voir plus)rning, where a model relies on erroneous, easy-to-learn cues while ignoring reliable ones. In this work, we propose an ensemble diversification framework exploiting Diffusion Probabilistic Models (DPMs) to mitigate this form of bias. We show that at particular training intervals, DPMs can generate images with novel feature combinations, even when trained on samples displaying correlated input features. We leverage this crucial property to generate synthetic counterfactuals to increase model diversity via ensemble disagreement. We show that DPM-guided diversification is sufficient to remove dependence on primary shortcut cues, without a need for additional supervised signals. We further empirically quantify its efficacy on several diversification objectives, and finally show improved generalization and diversification performance on par with prior work that relies on auxiliary data collection.
2023-11-23
ArXiv (prépublication)
arxiv.org
arxiv.org
Learning from unexpected events in the neocortical microcircuit
Colleen J Gillon
Jason E. Pina
Jérôme A. Lecoq
Ruweida Ahmed
Yazan N. Billeh
Shiella Caldejon
Peter Groblewski
Timothy M. Henley
India Kato
Eric Lee
Jennifer Luviano
Kyla Mace
Chelsea Nayan
Thuyanh V. Nguyen
Kat North
Jed Perkins
Sam Seid
Matthew T. Valley
Ali Williford
Yoshua Bengio … (voir 3 de plus)
Timothy P. Lillicrap
Blake Richards
Joel Zylberberg
2023-11-21
Journal of Neuroscience (publié)
doi.org
Responses to Pattern-Violating Visual Stimuli Evolve Differently Over Days in Somata and Distal Apical Dendrites
Colleen J Gillon
Jason E. Pina
Jérôme A. Lecoq
Ruweida Ahmed
Yazan N. Billeh
Shiella Caldejon
Peter Groblewski
Timothy M. Henley
India Kato
Eric Lee
Jennifer Luviano
Kyla Mace
Chelsea Nayan
Thuyanh V. Nguyen
Kat North
Jed Perkins
Sam Seid
Matthew T. Valley
Ali Williford
Yoshua Bengio … (voir 3 de plus)
Timothy P. Lillicrap
Blake Richards
Joel Zylberberg
Scientists have long conjectured that the neocortex learns patterns in sensory data to generate top-down predictions of upcoming stimuli. In… (voir plus) line with this conjecture, different responses to pattern-matching vs pattern-violating visual stimuli have been observed in both spiking and somatic calcium imaging data. However, it remains unknown whether these pattern-violation signals are different between the distal apical dendrites, which are heavily targeted by top-down signals, and the somata, where bottom-up information is primarily integrated. Furthermore, it is unknown how responses to pattern-violating stimuli evolve over time as an animal gains more experience with them. Here, we address these unanswered questions by analyzing responses of individual somata and dendritic branches of layer 2/3 and layer 5 pyramidal neurons tracked over multiple days in primary visual cortex of awake, behaving female and male mice. We use sequences of Gabor patches with patterns in their orientations to create pattern-matching and pattern-violating stimuli, and two-photon calcium imaging to record neuronal responses. Many neurons in both layers show large differences between their responses to pattern-matching and pattern-violating stimuli. Interestingly, these responses evolve in opposite directions in the somata and distal apical dendrites, with somata becoming less sensitive to pattern-violating stimuli and distal apical dendrites more sensitive. These differences between the somata and distal apical dendrites may be important for hierarchical computation of sensory predictions and learning, since these two compartments tend to receive bottom-up and top-down information, respectively.
2023-11-21
Journal of Neuroscience (publié)
doi.org
Responses to Pattern-Violating Visual Stimuli Evolve Differently Over Days in Somata and Distal Apical Dendrites
Colleen J Gillon
Jason E. Pina
Jérôme A. Lecoq
Ruweida Ahmed
Yazan N. Billeh
Shiella Caldejon
Peter Groblewski
Timothy M. Henley
India Kato
Eric Lee
Jennifer Luviano
Kyla Mace
Chelsea Nayan
Thuyanh V. Nguyen
Kat North
Jed Perkins
Sam Seid
Matthew T. Valley
Ali Williford
Yoshua Bengio … (voir 3 de plus)
Timothy P. Lillicrap
Blake Richards
Joel Zylberberg
Scientists have long conjectured that the neocortex learns patterns in sensory data to generate top-down predictions of upcoming stimuli. In… (voir plus) line with this conjecture, different responses to pattern-matching vs pattern-violating visual stimuli have been observed in both spiking and somatic calcium imaging data. However, it remains unknown whether these pattern-violation signals are different between the distal apical dendrites, which are heavily targeted by top-down signals, and the somata, where bottom-up information is primarily integrated. Furthermore, it is unknown how responses to pattern-violating stimuli evolve over time as an animal gains more experience with them. Here, we address these unanswered questions by analyzing responses of individual somata and dendritic branches of layer 2/3 and layer 5 pyramidal neurons tracked over multiple days in primary visual cortex of awake, behaving female and male mice. We use sequences of Gabor patches with patterns in their orientations to create pattern-matching and pattern-violating stimuli, and two-photon calcium imaging to record neuronal responses. Many neurons in both layers show large differences between their responses to pattern-matching and pattern-violating stimuli. Interestingly, these responses evolve in opposite directions in the somata and distal apical dendrites, with somata becoming less sensitive to pattern-violating stimuli and distal apical dendrites more sensitive. These differences between the somata and distal apical dendrites may be important for hierarchical computation of sensory predictions and learning, since these two compartments tend to receive bottom-up and top-down information, respectively.
2023-11-21
Journal of Neuroscience (publié)
doi.org