The Kempner Institute's Frontiers in NeuroAI symposium showcased researchers from around the world who are pushing forward the new field of #NeuroAI.
Learn about the event & find links to recordings here: bit.ly/3G5Urhv #NeuroAI2025 #AI #neuroscience @shamkakade.bsky.social
NEW: Fernanda Viegas ( @viegas.bsky.social ) of Google, SEAS and HBS looks under the hood of #AI chatbots to uncover implicit inferences about the user. Watch the video:
youtu.be/Mehvgb4sf90
#NeuroAI2025 #ML #LLMs #NeuroAI
NEW: Veronica Chelu ( @veronicachelu.bsky.social ) from @mcgilluniversity.bsky.social shows how excitatory-inhibitory dynamics in recurrent neural networks can affect decision making and reinforcement learning. Watch the video:
youtu.be/NnKmVObJJUQ
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NEW: Sara Matias ( @saramatias.bsky.social ) from Harvard's Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology shows evidence that the striatal dopamine circuit can mediate distributional reinforcement learning. Watch the video:
youtu.be/uVOk0fNUV6c
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NEW: Mozes Jacobs ( @mozesjacobs.bsky.social ) from the #KempnerInstitute and SEAS shows that traveling waves can enable neural networks to 'hear' the shapes of objects. Watch the video:
youtu.be/twBIvDaaMOY
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NEW: Mason Kamb ( @masonkamb.bsky.social ) from @stanford.edu presents a predictive theory of combinatorial creativity in diffusion models.
Watch the video: youtu.be/DP_kGt0-2cg
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The whole #NeuroAI2025 symposium was interesting, but I particularly liked @markandermann.bsky.social 's talk. It was the first time it seemed like we might soon have a theory of what hippocampal sharp-wave ripples do.
Here's the paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#neuroscience #neuroskyence
NEW: Asma Ghandeharioun of Google DeepMind demonstrates techniques to enhance interpretability of large language models, including the Patchscopes framework.
Watch the video: youtu.be/Og8FTqUrvtA
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NEW: Mark Andermann ( @markandermann.bsky.social) of @harvardmed.bsky.social brings experimental data and computational modeling together to understand cortical reactivations. Watch the video:
youtu.be/1N6i7Zi9kXs
#NeuroAI2025 #neuroscience #AI #NeuroAI
NEW: Ellie Pavlick of Brown University and Google DeepMind dives into how compositionality emerges in large language models. Watch the video:
youtu.be/6gSYMX3I5Bs
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NEW: Luke Zettlemoyer (@lukezettlemoyer.bsky.social) of the University of Washington and Meta AI walks through different approaches to building multimodal foundation models.
Watch the video: youtu.be/vTI4cziw84Q
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NEW: Karel Svoboda of @alleninstitute.org demonstrates how brain-computer interfaces can shed light on synaptic learning rules.
Watch the video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMke...
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NEW: Konrad Körding (@kordinglab.bsky.social) of @upenn.bsky.social explains why causality is so difficult to uncover in #neuroscience.
Watch the video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBFz...
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NEW: Cengiz Pehlevan (@cpehlevan.bsky.social) of #KempnerInstitute and SEAS shows how summary statistics offer a window into neural network representations, and how they change during learning.
Watch the video: youtu.be/AWBRognuelc
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NEW: João Sacramento, Research Scientist at Google, discusses his work investigating how transformers & related architectures enable in-context learning of sequence data.
Watch the talk: www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9yu...
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NEW: @suryaganguli.bsky.social of @stanford.edu presenting computational insights into the neural basis of learning, reasoning and imagination.
Watch the talk: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLmK...
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NEW: @sueyeonchung.bsky.social from @flatironinstitute.org and NYU & incoming #KempnerInstitute faculty explains how physics & geometry can illuminate how the brain computes with neural manifolds.
Watch the talk: www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Oyc...
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NEW: Yilun Du of Google DeepMind & incoming #KempnerInstitute faculty explains how optimizing energy functions can help solve challenging navigation & reasoning problems. Watch the talk:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKbL...
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And that's a wrap. Thanks to everyone who participated in Frontiers in NeuroAI! It's been a great couple of days.
Stay tuned next week for links to the talks!
#NeuroAI2025
Fernanda Viegas of the Kempner Institute and Harvard SEAS looks under the hood of AI chatbots to uncover implicit inferences about the user.
@viegas.bsky.social #NeuroAI2025 #AI #ML #LLMs
Veronica Chelu from @mcgilluniversity.bsky.social and @mila-quebec.bsky.social shows how excitatory-inhibitory dynamics in recurrent neural networks can affect decision making and reinforcement learning.
@veronicachelu.bsky.social #NeuroAI2025 #ML #neuroscience
Sara Matias from Harvard's Depertment of Molecular & Cellular Biology shows evidence that the striatal dopamine circuit can mediate distributional reinforcement learning.
@saramatias.bsky.social #NeuroAI2025 #ML #neuroscience
Mozes Jacobs from the Kempner Institute shows that traveling waves can enable neural networks to 'hear' the shapes of objects.
@mozesjacobs.bsky.social #NeuroAI2025 #AI #ML #neuroscience
Mason Kamb from @Stanford.edu presents a predictive theory of combinatorial creativity in diffusion models.
@masonkamb.bsky.social #NeuroAI2025 #AI #ML
Asma Ghandeharioun of Google DeepMind demonstrates techniques to enhance interpretability of large language models, including the Patchscopes framework.
#NeuroAI2025 #AI #ML #LLMs
Mark Andermann of @harvardmed.bsky.social brings experimental data and computational modeling together to understand cortical reactivations.
@markandermann.bsky.social #NeuroAI2025 #neuroscience
Ellie Pavlick of Brown University and Google DeepMind dives into how compositionality emerges in large language models.
#NeuroAI2025 #AI #ML #LLMs
Luke Zettlemoyer of UW and Meta AI demonstrates different approaches to building multimodal foundation models.
@lukezettlemoyer.bsky.social #NeuroAI2025 #AI #ML #LLMs
Glimpses of Day 1 of Frontiers in NeuroAI!
Lots of great talks coming on Day 2!
Symposium info: kempnerinstitute.harvard.edu/frontiers-in...
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