NSF Site Visit - The NSF team will evaluate the progress and achievements of ARNI’s projects to date and provide recommendations to steer future directions and funding for the project. If you are interested in learning more about ARNI over-all, join this Zoom link from 9am to 12pm or 2pm to 4:30pm.

Title: Large-scale pretraining on neural data allows for transfer across individuals, tasks and species Abstract: As neuroscience datasets grow in size and complexity, integrating diverse data sources to achieve a comprehensive understanding…

Speaker: Haozhe Shan Title: A theory of continual learning in deep neural networks: task relations, network architecture and learning procedure Abstract: Imagine listening to this talk and afterwards forgetting everything else…

Title: Bounded optimality: A cognitive perspective on neural computation with resource limitations

Title: Neuronal energy consumption: basic measures and trade-offs, and their effects on efficiency Zoom: https://columbiauniversity.zoom.us/j/98299154214?pwd=1J3J0lEpF6XdqHkHy02c7LuD6xUWx2.1

Title: Taskonomy: Disentangling Task Transfer Learning Abstract: TBD  Link: http://taskonomy.stanford.edu/taskonomy_CVPR2018.pdf

Title: Meta-learning for more powerful behavioral modeling Abstract: Two modeling paradigms have historically been in tension: Bayesian models provide an elegant way to incorporate prior knowledge, but they make simplifying and constraining…

Title: A Practitioner’s Guide to Continual Multimodal Pretraining Reading: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2408.1447 Zoom: https://columbiauniversity.zoom.us/j/97176853843?pwd=VLZdh6yqHBcOQhdf816lkN5ByIpIsF.1

Title: Target Learning rather than Backpropagation Explains Learning in the Mammalian Neocortex Abstract: Modern computational neuroscience presents two competing hypotheses for hierarchical learning in the neocortex: (1) deep learning-inspired approximations of the…

  Title: Meta Continual Learning Revisited: Implicitly Enhancing Online Hessian Approximation via Variance Reduction Reading: https://openreview.net/pdf?id=TpD2aG1h0D Zoom: https://columbiauniversity.zoom.us/j/97176853843?pwd=VLZdh6yqHBcOQhdf816lkN5ByIpIsF.1

General Agenda October 21st, Day 1 from 8:45am to 5pm Breakfast and Lunch Provided Opening 3 Keynote Speakers from ARNI Faculty Research Brainstorming and Discussions Project/Student Poster Session Education and…

Title: Unifying neural population dynamics, manifold geometry, and circuit structure. Abstract: Single neurons show complex, heterogeneous responses during cognitive tasks, often forming low-dimensional manifolds in the population state space. Consequently, it is…