Excited to see the paper fully published. It's an important milestone for training SNNs with exact gradients, replacing our earlier tricks of a "delay line augmentation" to capture temporal relationships. Delays can now be learnt alongside weights naturally. Amazing work @mbalazs98.bsky.social !

If you're interested in doing a PhD at Sussex, lots of exciting PhD project ideas at www.sussex.ac.uk/research/cen... including several Spiking Neural Network projects with myself and @drtnowotny.bsky.social . Funding available via www.sussex.ac.uk/study/fees-f... or www.sussex.ac.uk/study/fees-f...

Excellent paper and great new project. Very interesting how the race of technology between GPU and FPGA shapes up.

Strong results on Speech commands with GLE presented by Paul Haider at #cns2025florence today . @cnsorg.bsky.social

And we are off - excited that #cns2025florence is under way with record attendance - first keynote starts in 5 minutes.

Very excited by our new Sussex AI promotional video www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5dS...

Posting this after some recent conversations with potential international applicants - still time to apply to our Masters courses and International PhD Academy for 2025 entry - join the diverse and vibrant Neuroscience community on our beautiful campus next to Brighton

... and you can see the great lineup of tutorials and workshops here: ocns.memberclicks.net/cns-2025-mee... Of course, tutorial and workshop registration can also be added later if you have already registered for the main meeting. @cnsorg.bsky.social

The deadline is tomorrow - last push! @cnsorg.bsky.social

Only 5 days to go to the (extended) deadline. Make them count. A great lineup of keynotes, tutorials and workshops is secured - add your research as an oral or poster by submitting an abstract.

@drtnowotny.bsky.social and I are again participating in Google Summer of Code under the @incforg.bsky.social. We have 3 paid projects involving GeNN for contributors with a range of skills and experience levels. If you're interested, please get in touch via the forums linked from the thread:

Call for Abstracts: 34th Annual Computational Neuroscience Meeting, CNS*2025 🌟 📍 Join us in Florence 🇮🇹 July 5-9, 2025! 🧠✨ 🗓️ Abstract Deadline: March 11, 2025 🔗 Submit here: www.cnsorg.org/cns-2025-abs... 📚 Workshops: www.cnsorg.org/cns-2025-cal... 🎓 Tutorials: www.cnsorg.org/cns-2025-cal...

This is awesome work from Balazs! Not only does our Eventprop-based method supports multiple spikes per neuron and recurrent connectivity but uses less than half the memory of the current state-of-the-art delay-learning method and is up to 26x faster.

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Just out in J Neuromorph Comput & Eng: Loss shaping enhances exact gradient learning with Eventprop in Spiking Neural Networks doi.org/10.1088/2634.... With @neworderofjamie.bsky.social. We report how Eventprop scales to harder learning tasks. TL;DR: It works great but not without extra effort. 🧪🧵

"A study of federally funded research projects in the United States estimated that principal investigators spend on average about 45% of their time on administrative activities related to applying for and managing projects rather than conducting active research" www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

We are proposing PhD project ideas along these lines:

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New paper on spike sorting www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... with Lydia Ellison, Georg Raiser, Alicia Garrido Peña and George Kemenes. TL;DR: SSSort software now handles overlapping spikes in addition to the extreme spike shape changes it was already good at. github.com/grg2rsr/SSSort

First paper by our excellent PhD student @mbalazs98.bsky.social on trying to unpick the relation between delay learning and structural plasticity in SNNs and visualise what gets learned www.frontiersin.org/articles/10....

💯 Hallucination is totally the wrong word, implying it is perceiving the world incorrectly. But it's generating false, plausible sounding statements. Confabulation is literally the perfect word. So, let's all please start referring to any junk that an LLM makes up as "confabulations".

Googling Stuff: Then v Now.

Here is another way to apply to join our group. Deadline 13 January.

Sussex AI, the multi-disciplinary centre of things AI and data science at University of Sussex is now also on BlueSky: @sussexai.bsky.social

If you're interested in a PhD in the AI centre of excellence at Sussex, now's your chance! lncluding several Spiking Neural Network project suggestions from @drtnowotny.bsky.social and I!

Sharing this again, in case anyone has only read the first side of the arguments here. So much noise and conclusion jumping out there. Read on: @garymarcus.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/garymarc...

We are using the GeNN family of simulation software github.com/genn-team/genn, github.com/genn-team/ml.... Disclaimer: we are also the developers 😅

Sorry, got carried away equating AI with LLM. Regarding using LLMs to query databases, that's interesting but the LLMs would have to change significantly as their current operating principle of generating text essentially based on word distributions in the training data will "innovate" by design.

But @tyrellturing.bsky.social which LLM is producing facts? I don't know any. They all only produce plausible sounding texts without reference to facts.

Our lab as well ... if you are interested in comp neuro.

Very interesting blog. I would particularly agree with the point that anything gets published eventually in the current model; and that doesn't even take into account predatory publishers.

Published/branded?

Why do people want AI to produce academic text (papers, reviews)? If we humans aren't even willing to write those texts, why in the bloody hell would we want to read them? How about: if no one cares about a text, let's leave it be. No need to review literally everything.🙅🙅‍♀️ #AcademicSky #SciPub

Very interesting analysis. Clearly, this cannot continue like this.

The Organization for Computational Neuroscience (OCNS) which runs the annual CNS meetings and comp-neuro email list is now on Bsky: @cnsorg.bsky.social

For the geeks, I have some variables x_1, ... , x_n forming some expressions e_1, ..., e_m (e.g. e1= x_1 + x_2). How can I find the minimal set of expressions e'_i that allow me to express all the e_i? Example: if e_1=x_1+x_2 and e_2=(x_1+x_2)^2, I want e'_1=x_1+x_2 and not {e'_1 = x_1, e'_2= x_2}

Hi there! Short #introduction I am interested in bio-inspired AI and computational neuroscience. Currently, we are interested in training spiking neural networks with exact gradients; including SSNs with delays and training delays. I work @ University of Sussex and am the president of OCNS.

So, @neworderofjamie.bsky.social and I would really like to start a rock band called "Saccadic Revolution." In the meantime, we're investigating why foveation and saccades enable us to explore the world so amazingly. Thank you Sussex AI for making me feel at home! #onlyneuromorphicvibes