Conrad Hal Waddington was born OTD in 1905. His “epigenetic landscape” is a diagrammatic representation of the constraints influencing embryonic development. On his 50th birthday, his colleagues gave him a pinball machine on the model of the epigenetic landscape. 🧪 🦫🦋 🌱🐋 #HistSTM #philsci #evobio

I’m looking for interns to join our lab for a project on foundation models in neuroscience. Funded by @ivado.bsky.social and in collaboration with the IVADO regroupement 1 (AI and Neuroscience: ivado.ca/en/regroupem...). Interested? See the details in the comments. (1/3) 🧠🤖

A tad late (announcements coming) but very happy to share the latest developments in my previous preprint! Previously, we show that neural representations for control of movement are largely distinct following supervised or reinforcement learning. The latter most closely matches NHP recordings.

LLMs are trained to compress data by mapping sequences to high-dim representations! How does the complexity of this mapping change across LLM training? How does it relate to the model’s capabilities? 🤔 Announcing our #NeurIPS2025 📄 that dives into this. 🧵below #AIResearch #MachineLearning #LLM

Very cool study, with interesting insights about theta sequences and learning!

Together with @repromancer.bsky.social, I have been musing for a while that the exponentiated gradient algorithm we've advocated for comp neuro would work well with low-precision ANNs. This group got it working! arxiv.org/abs/2506.17768 May be a great way to reduce AI energy use!!! #MLSky 🧪

This looks like a very cool result! 😀 Can't wait to read in detail.

Fantastic work on Multi-agent RL from @dvnxmvlhdf5.bsky.social & @tyrellturing.bsky.social! 🤩

Our team is hiring in Zurich! www.google.com/about/career...

Also, big shoutout to @quentin-garrido.bsky.social+gang and @aggieinca.bsky.social+gang for developing Rankme and Lidar, respectively. Reptrix incorporates these representation quality metrics. 🚀 Let's make it easier to select good SSL/foundation models. 💪

Are you training self-supervised/foundation models, and worried if they are learning good representations? We got you covered! 💪 🦖Introducing Reptrix, a #Python library to evaluate representation quality metrics for neural nets: github.com/BARL-SSL/rep... 🧵👇[1/6] #DeepLearning

Super cool paper! It formalizes a lot of ideas I have been mulling over the past year, and connects tons of historical ideas neatly. Definitely worth a read if you are working/interested in mechanistic interp and neural representations.

Just over a week since I defended my 🤖+🧠PhD thesis, and the feeling is just sinking in. Extremely grateful to @tyrellturing.bsky.social for supporting me through this amazing journey! 🙏 Big thanks to all members of the LiNC lab, and colleagues at mcgill University and @mila-quebec.bsky.social. ❤️😁

Just giving this a boost for those who may not have seen it yet... we have a PI position (molecular and cellular basis of cognition) at The Hospital for Sick Children (Toronto). The position comes with an appointment at Assist/Assoc Prof level at U of T. Share widely! can-acn.org/scientist-se...

Come say hi at the noon poster session today in the East hall, poster #2201. 🚀 #NeurIPS2024

The problem with current SSL? It's hungry. Very hungry. 🤖 Training time: Weeks Dataset size: Millions of images Compute costs: 💸💸💸 Our #NeurIPS2024 poster makes SSL pipelines 2x faster and achieves similar accuracy at 50% pretraining cost! 💪🏼✨ 🧵 1/8

Learning by reconstruction captures uninformative details in your data. This “attention to details” biases the ViT’s attention. Our solution: a new token aggregator->improves (significantly) MAE linear probe perf. and (slightly) JEPAs like I-JEPA arxiv.org/abs/2412.03215

Delighted to be in Leeds joining the School of Computing! Fantastic first impressions — like a "less offensive London" (youtu.be/watch?v=_6_VVLgrgFI). Stay tuned for a PhD position starting next October. Meanwhile, drop me a message with your CV and research interests—I'd love to hear from you!

What's your favourite way to merge two (or more) bibtex files? I want to merge bibtex files from two different papers without having to manually get rid of repeated entries. Even better if there's some browser/web tool that does it. :)

Thanks for the kind words!! ☺️ I cannot say enough about how grateful I am to be in @tyrellturing.bsky.social's lab. Absolutely fantastic mentor, great members, inspiring science and discussions. 🥹 🚀

Looking for PhD/postdoc positions at the intersection of #AI and #compneuro? @repromancer.bsky.social is an excellent scientist and an awesome mentor! 🚀

One of the most exciting projects I have been part of. Really excited that this is now out! 🤩 Extremely grateful to @repromancer.bsky.social for roping me in for the ride! 🙏 It is indeed a great time to be in #NeuroAI, can't wait to see how recent advances shape the fields of #compneuro and #AI