The information theory of developmental pruning: Optimizing global network architectures using local synaptic rules

• Carolin Scholl,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Max Planck School of Cognition, Leipzig, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0021-9435

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• Michael E. Rule,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation University of Cambridge, Engineering Department, Cambridge, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4196-774X

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• Matthias H. Hennig

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: m.hennig@ed.ac.uk

  Affiliation University of Edinburgh, Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7270-5817

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