Instruct: Identify the main and secondary category of Arxiv papers based on the titles and abstracts
Query: Learning cortical representations through perturbed and adversarial
  dreaming   Humans and other animals learn to extract general concepts from sensory
experience without extensive teaching. This ability is thought to be
facilitated by offline states like sleep where previous experiences are
systemically replayed. However, the characteristic creative nature of dreams
suggests that learning semantic representations may go beyond merely replaying
previous experiences. We support this hypothesis by implementing a cortical
architecture inspired by generative adversarial networks (GANs). Learning in
our model is organized across three different global brain states mimicking
wakefulness, NREM and REM sleep, optimizing different, but complementary
objective functions. We train the model on standard datasets of natural images
and evaluate the quality of the learned representations. Our results suggest
that generating new, virtual sensory inputs via adversarial dreaming during REM
sleep is essential for extracting semantic concepts, while replaying episodic
memories via perturbed dreaming during NREM sleep improves the robustness of
latent representations. The model provides a new computational perspective on
sleep states, memory replay and dreams and suggests a cortical implementation
of GANs.

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The categories of this paper are: alg-geom
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The categories of this paper are: q-alg
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The categories of this paper are: gr-qc
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The categories of this paper are: ao-sci
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The categories of this paper are: dg-ga
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The categories of this paper are: nucl-ex
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The categories of this paper are: quant-ph
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The categories of this paper are: solv-int
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The categories of this paper are: hep-ex
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The categories of this paper are: hep-lat
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The categories of this paper are: atom-ph
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The categories of this paper are: bayes-an
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The categories of this paper are: acc-phys
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The categories of this paper are: eess
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The categories of this paper are: funct-an
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The categories of this paper are: math-ph