Weight-space symmetry in deep networks gives rise to permutation saddles, connected by equal-loss valleys across the loss landscape. - Johanni Brea; Berfin Simsek; Bernd Illing; Wulfram Gerstner (CoRR, 2019)

Biologically plausible deep learning - But how far can we go with shallow networks? - Bernd Illing; Wulfram Gerstner; Johanni Brea (Neural Networks, 2019)

Towards truly local gradients with CLAPP: Contrastive, Local And Predictive Plasticity. - Bernd Illing; Wulfram Gerstner; Guillaume Bellec (CoRR, 2020)

Local plasticity rules can learn deep representations using self-supervised contrastive predictions. - Bernd Illing; Jean Ventura; Guillaume Bellec; Wulfram Gerstner (NeurIPS, 2021)