The simplest maximum entropy model for collective behavior in a neural network

Gasper Tkačik, Olivier Marre, Thierry Mora, Dario Amodei, Michael J Berry II, and William Bialek, Institute of Science and Technology Austria, Am Campus 1, A–3400 Klosterneuburg, Austria, Institution de al Vision, UMRS 968 UPMC, INSERM, CNRS U7210, CHNO Quinze–Vingts, F–75012 Paris, France, Laboratoire de Physique Statistique de l’École Normale Superieure, CNRS and Universites Paris VI and Paris VII, 24 rue Lhomond, 75231 Paris Cedex 05, France, Joseph Henry Laboratories of Physics, Department of Molecular Biology, Princeton Neuroscience Institute, and Lewis–Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544 USA (Dated: July 27, 2012)