Neuromatch Academy aims to introduce traditional and emerging tools of computational neuroscience to trainees. It is appropriate for student population ranging from undergraduates to faculty in academic settings and also includes industry professionals. In addition to teaching the technical details of computational methods, Neuromatch Academy also provide a curriculum centered on modern neuroscience concepts taught by leading professors along with explicit instruction on how and why to apply models. This particular course provides an overview of generalized linear models (GLMs), and how they are relevant when applying machine learning algorithms to data.
Machine Learning
Course Features
Videos
Lectures
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Suggested reading
Recordings of question and answer sessions
Discussion forum on Neurostars.org
Lessons of this Course
1
1
Duration:
33:58
Speaker:
This lecture provides an overview of the generalized linear models (GLM) course, originally a part of the Neuromatch Academy (NMA), an interactive online summer school held in 2020. NMA provided participants with experiences spanning from hands-on modeling experience to meta-science interpretation skills across just about everything that could reasonably be included in the label "computational neuroscience".
2
2
Duration:
8:09
Speaker:
This is a tutorial covering Generalized Linear Models (GLMs), which are a fundamental framework for supervised learning. In this tutorial, the objective is to model a retinal ganglion cell spike train by fitting a temporal receptive field: first with a Linear-Gaussian GLM (also known as ordinary least-squares regression model) and then with a Poisson GLM (aka "Linear-Nonlinear-Poisson" model). The data you will be using was published by Uzzell & Chichilnisky 2004.
3
3
Duration:
6:42
Speaker:
This tutorial covers the implementation of logistic regression, a special case of GLMs used to model binary outcomes. In this tutorial, we will decode a mouse's left/right decisions from spike train data.
4
4
Duration:
29:30
Speaker:
This lecture further develops the concepts introduced in Machine Learning I. This lecture is part of the Neuromatch Academy (NMA), an interactive online computational neuroscience summer school held in 2020.
