Modulation of early visual processing alleviates capacity limits in solving multiple tasks

07/29/2019
by   Sushrut Thorat, et al.
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In daily life situations, we have to perform multiple tasks given a visual stimulus, which requires task-relevant information to be transmitted through our visual system. When it is not possible to transmit all the possibly relevant information to higher layers, due to a bottleneck, task-based modulation of early visual processing might be necessary. In this work, we report how the effectiveness of modulating the early processing stage of an artificial neural network depends on the information bottleneck faced by the network. The bottleneck is quantified by the number of tasks the network has to perform and the neural capacity of the later stage of the network. The effectiveness is gauged by the performance on multiple object detection tasks, where the network is trained with a recent multi-task optimization scheme. By associating neural modulations with task-based switching of the state of the network and characterizing when such switching is helpful in early processing, our results provide a functional perspective towards understanding why task-based modulation of early neural processes might be observed in the primate visual cortex

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