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Neural noise enables accurate internal simulation of rare events

A predictive network learns a world in which some events are rare. Add the right amount of noise to its internal replay and its simulation of those rare events becomes accurate. Turn the knob and watch.

Heng Zhang^1,*, Pawel Herman^2,#, Zenas C. Chao^1,*

¹WPI-IRCN, UTIAS, The University of Tokyo, Japan²KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden

^*Corresponding author^#Co-senior author