Top-down feedback needs noise to boost visual robustness, study finds
A Patterns study from Tübingen and Hertie Institute researchers, including Karl Friston, shows that top-down feedback in artificial vision models improves robustness only when paired with noise such as dropout, explaining why biological visual cortex relies on abundant feedback connections.
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