Yoon Lab @ Hanyang

Neuro-inspired AI group

Our group is interested in understanding principles that underlie learning and inference in the brain and machines, mainly by using tools from machine learning and statistics.

Publications

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Inference in probabilistic graphical models by graph neural networks
Yoon, KJ., Liao, R., Xiong, Y., Zhang, L., Fetaya, E., Urtasun, R., Zemel, R., & Pitkow, X.
arXiv:1803.07710 (2018)

ICML (2019), Workshop on Tractable Probabilistic Modeling (Best Paper Award)

Image by Xaq Pitkow

Reviving and improving recurrent backpropagation
Liao, R., Xiong, Y., Fetaya, E., Zhang, L., Yoon, KJ., Pitkow, X., Urtasun, R., & Zemel, R.
ICML (2018) [pdf]

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A map-like micro-organization of grid cells in the medial entorhinal cortex
Gu, Y., Lewallen, S., Kinkhabwala, A. A., Domnisoru, C., Yoon, KJ., Gauthier, J., Fiete, I. R., and Tank, D. W.
Cell (2018) [pdf]

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Grid cell responses in 1D environments assessed as slices through a 2D lattice
Yoon, KJ.*, Lewallen, S.*, Kinkhabwala, A. A., Tank, D. W., and Fiete, I. R.
Neuron (2016) [pdf],[SI]

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Specific evidence of low-dimensional continuous attractor dynamics in grid cells
Yoon, KJ., Buice, M. A., Barry, C., Hayman, R., Burgess, N., and Fiete, I. R.
Nature Neuroscience (2013)
[pdf],[SI],[F1000]

Conference abstracts

Yoon, KJ., & Pitkow, X. “Learning nonlinearities for identifying regular structure in the brain’s inference algorithm.”, Cosyne (2018)
Yoon, KJ., & Fiete, I. R. “Statistical framework for encoding and decoding grid cell population activity.”, Society for Neuroscience (2014)
Yoon, KJ.*, Lewallen, S.*, Kinkhabwala, A. A., Tank, D. W., & Fiete, I. R. “Grid cell responses in 1-d environments are consistent with 2-d continuous attractor dynamics.”, Society for Neuroscience (2013)
Lewallen, S.*, Yoon, KJ.*, Kinkhabwala, A. A., Domnisoru, C., Tank, D. W., & Fiete, I. R. “1D grid fields are slices of a 2D hexagonal lattice.”, Society for Neuroscience, (2013)
Yoon, KJ., Robles-Llana, D., Kinkhabwala, A. A., Tank, D. W., & Fiete, I. R. “Are aperiodic 1D grid cell responses consistent with low-dimensional continuous attractor dynamics?”, Computational and Systems Neuroscience, (2013)
Yoon, KJ., Barry, C., Buice, M. A., Burgess, N. & Fiete, I. R. “Are grid-cell responses very low-dimensional?”, Computational and Systems Neuroscience, (2012)
Yoon, KJ., Barry, C., Burgess, N., & Fiete, I. R. “Assessing the role of feedback in spatially patterened grid cell responses.” Society for Neuroscience, (2010)