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4 claims from 2 papers

1. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

   Extracting grid cell characteristics from place cell inputs using non-negative principal component analysis

   Dordek, Soudry, Meir and Derdikman · eLife · 2016

   The authors propose a single-layer Hebbian network linking place-like inputs to grid cell outputs, resembling PCA, and report that non-negative weights give hexagonal grids while unconstrained weights give square ones.

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   1. UncheckedIn a simple model, if the weights from place-like input cells are kept non-negative, the output grid cells converge to a hexagonal lattice pattern.“Both numerical results and analytic considerations indicate that if the components of the feedforward neural network are non-negative, the output converges to a hexagonal lattice.”
   2. UncheckedIn this model, removing the non-negativity constraint on place-to-grid weights makes the grid cell output converge to a square lattice rather than a hexagonal one.“Without the non-negativity constraint, the output converges to a square lattice.”
   3. UncheckedIn the authors' model, the ratio of grid spacing between the first two consecutive grid modules is −1.4, which they say matches experiments.“Consistent with experiments, grid spacing ratio between the first two consecutive modules is −1.4.”

2. Computer Science › Graph Labeling and Dimension Problems

   On the packing chromatic number of square and hexagonal lattice

   Korže and Vesel · Ars Mathematica Contemporanea · 2013

   The paper studies packing chromatic numbers of the hexagonal lattice and of strips of the square lattice, giving exact values in some cases and new upper bounds in others, partly by computer search.

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   1. Supported · 71%The paper shows that the packing chromatic number of the infinite hexagonal lattice is 7.“We show that the packing chromatic number for the hexagonal lattice ℋ is 7.”