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SUMMARY:ARNI Frontier Models for Neuroscience and Behavior Working Group
DESCRIPTION:Title:\nOmniMouse: Scaling properties of multi-modal\, multi-task Brain Models on 150B Neural Tokens \nAbstract:\nScaling data and artificial neural networks has transformed AI\, driving breakthroughs in language and vision. Whether similar principles apply to modeling brain activity remains unclear. Here we leveraged a dataset of 3.3 million neurons from the visual cortex of 78 mice across 323 sessions\, totaling more than 150 billion neural tokens recorded during natural movies\, images and parametric stimuli\, and behavior. We train multi-modal\, multi-task transformer models (1M–300M parameters) that support three regimes flexibly at test time: neural prediction (predicting neuronal responses from sensory input and behavior)\, behavioral decoding (predicting behavior from neural activity)\, neural forecasting (predicting future activity from current neural dynamics)\, or any combination of the three. We find that performance scales reliably with more data\, but gains from increasing model size saturate — suggesting that current brain models are limited by data rather than compute. This inverts the standard AI scaling story: in language and computer vision\, massive datasets make parameter scaling the primary driver of progress\, whereas in brain modeling — even in the mouse visual cortex\, a relatively simple and low-resolution system — models remain data-limited despite vast recordings. These findings highlight the need for richer stimuli\, tasks\, and larger-scale recordings to build brain foundation models. The observation of systematic scaling raises the possibility of phase transitions in neural modeling\, where larger and richer datasets might unlock qualitatively new capabilities\, paralleling the emergent properties seen in large language models. \nZoom: Upon request @ arni@columbia.edu \n 
URL:https://arni-institute.org/event/arni-frontier-models-for-neuroscience-and-behavior-working-group/
LOCATION:Zuckerman Institute – L3-079\, 3227 Broadway\, New York\, NY\, 10027\, United States
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