AUTHOR=Bae Hyojin , Park Sa-Yoon , Kim Sang Jeong , Kim Chang-Eop 

TITLE=Cerebellum as a kernel machine: A novel perspective on expansion recoding in granule cell layer

JOURNAL=Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience

VOLUME=16

YEAR=2022

URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/computational-neuroscience/articles/10.3389/fncom.2022.1062392

DOI=10.3389/fncom.2022.1062392

ISSN=1662-5188

ABSTRACT=<p>Sensorimotor information provided by mossy fibers (MF) is mapped to high-dimensional space by a huge number of granule cells (GrC) in the cerebellar cortex’s input layer. Significant studies have demonstrated the computational advantages and primary contributor of this expansion recoding. Here, we propose a novel perspective on the expansion recoding where each GrC serve as a kernel basis function, thereby the cerebellum can operate like a kernel machine that implicitly use high dimensional (even infinite) feature spaces. We highlight that the generation of kernel basis function is indeed biologically plausible scenario, considering that the key idea of kernel machine is to memorize important input patterns. We present potential regimes for developing kernels under constrained resources and discuss the advantages and disadvantages of each regime using various simulation settings.</p>