Fabrizio Musacchio📚 New preprint by Vafaii, Galor & Yates: Brain-like variational inference. They derive #SpikingNeuralNetwork dynamics directly from variational free energy minimization via online natural #GradientDescent, yielding the iterative Poisson #VAE (iP-VAE) with strong sparsity, reconstruction & #BiologicalPlausibility.
🌍 https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.19315
🧑💻 https://github.com/hadivafaii/IterativeVAE
