Variational Walkback: Learning a Transition Operator as a Stochastic Recurrent Net — mentioned by bmc7505

Tue, 26 May 2026 17:22:03 GMT

This topic recently came up at the FLANN workshop [1], and seems to periodically be rediscovered [2,3,4] in different contexts. While some have speculated about the biological role it plays (e.g., Pearlmutter & Houghton [5]), we still lack a conclusive theory of sleep, but the convergent evolution of this specific phenomenon across the animal kingdom and the fact that deprivation is inevitably fatal seems like an important clue. [1]: https://flann.cs.yale.edu [2]: https://www.cs.toronto.edu/~hinton/csc2535/readings/ws.pdf [3]: https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.02282 [4]…

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Variational Walkback: Learning a Transition Operator as a Stochastic Recurrent Net — mentioned by bmc7505