Title: Fast and Flexible Group Decision-Making Abstract: A wide range of animals live and move in groups. Many animals do better in groups than alone when, for example, foraging for food, migrating, and avoiding predators. A key to group success is social interaction. Less well understood is how a group, with no centralized control, is…

Monday (9/15) the Continual Learning Group will have a presentation from group member Yunfan Zhang.  Yunfan will be sharing his ongoing work on developing a continual learning benchmark based on deriving up-to-date facts from news over time. Date: Monday, September 15 Time: 3-4pm Room: CSB 480 Zoom: upon request @ [email protected]

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Title: Neural computations underlying the regulation of motivated behavior Abstract: As we interact with the world around us, we experience a constant stream of sensory inputs, and must generate a constant stream of behavioral actions. What makes brains more than simple input-output machines is their capacity to integrate sensory inputs with an animal’s own internal motivational state…

Next Monday, September 29, we will continue our fall semester program with a group workshop on the topic of neural memory models.  First, we will have a presentation from group member Max Bennett about our ongoing work on generalized neural memory systems that perform flexible updates based on learning instructions specified in natural language.  After the presentation,…

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Biological Learning first fall 2025 working group session of the year! Pingsheng Li, PhD student with Blake Richards at MILA, will be presenting Log-Normal Multiplicative Dynamics for Stable Low-Precision Training of Large Networks.   Brief discussion of how the group can all collaborate together on a project, define a benchmark for ourselves with some metrics…

Title: OmniMouse: Scaling properties of multi-modal, multi-task Brain Models on 150B Neural Tokens Abstract: Scaling 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…

Title: Dynamical models of neural-behavioral data with application to AI-driven neurotechnology Abstract: A major challenge in neuroAI is to model, decode, and modulate the activity of large populations of neurons that underlie our brain’s functions and dysfunctions. Toward addressing this challenge, I will present our work on novel dynamical models of neural-behavioral data and applying…

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Title: Building the brain’s efficient system-level architecture: optimisations across space, time, and multiple regions Abstract: The computations a brain can perform are fundamentally constrained by physical realities: energetic resources are limited, and time is precious. To understand why the brain works the way it does, we must understand its function in the context of these…