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    • Liu, Y.H., Smith, S., Mihalas S., Shea-Brown E., Sumbul U., “Biologically-plausible backpropagation through arbitrary timespans via local neuromodulators”, Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 2022.
    • Liu, Y.H., Ghosh A., Richards B. A., Shea-Brown E., Lajoie G., “Beyond accuracy: generalization properties of bio-plausible temporal credit assignment rules”, Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 2022. 
    • Liu, Y.H., Smith, S.J., Mihalas S., Shea-Brown E., Sumbul U., “Cell-type–specific neuromodulation guides synaptic credit assignment in a spiking neural network”, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2021.
    • Liu, Y.H., Baratin A., Cornford J., Mihalas S., Shea-Brown E., Lajoie G., “How connectivity structure shapes rich and lazy learning in neural circuits”, International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2024 (accepted). 
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    • AMATH 342 A: Introduction to Neural Coding and Computation
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      • AMATH Graduate Student Helena Liu leads PNAS paper on neural network learning (December 20, 2021)
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