🚨 New preprint alert! 🧠🤖 We propose a theory of how learning curriculum affects generalization through neural population dimensionality. Learning curriculum is a determining factor of neural dimensionality - where you start from determines where you end up. 🧠📈 A 🧵: tinyurl.com/yr8tawj3

Excited to share that POSSM has been accepted to #NeurIPS2025! See you in San Diego 🏖️

I'm very excited to announce the publication of our new book Neural Interfaces, published by Elsevier. The book is a comprehensive resource for all those interested and gravitating around neural interfaces and brain-computer interfaces (BCIs). shop.elsevier.com/books/neural...

Step 1: Understand how scaling improves LLMs. Step 2: Directly target underlying mechanism. Step 3: Improve LLMs independent of scale. Profit. In our ACL 2025 paper we look at Step 1 in terms of training dynamics. Project: mirandrom.github.io/zsl Paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2506.05447

(1/n)🚨Train a model solving DFT for any geometry with almost no training data Introducing Self-Refining Training for Amortized DFT: a variational method that predicts ground-state solutions across geometries and generates its own training data! 📜 arxiv.org/abs/2506.01225 💻 github.com/majhas/self-...

Preprint Alert 🚀 Multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) often assumes that agents know when other agents cooperate with them. But for humans, this isn’t always the case. For example, plains indigenous groups used to leave resources for others to use at effigies called Manitokan. 1/8

New preprint! 🧠🤖 How do we build neural decoders that are: ⚡️ fast enough for real-time use 🎯 accurate across diverse tasks 🌍 generalizable to new sessions, subjects, and even species? We present POSSM, a hybrid SSM architecture that optimizes for all three of these axes! 🧵1/7

I am joining @ualberta.bsky.social as a faculty member and @amiithinks.bsky.social! My research group is recruiting MSc and PhD students at the University of Alberta in Canada. Research topics include generative modeling, representation learning, interpretability, inverse problems, and neuroAI.

Scaling models across multiple animals was a major step toward building neuro-foundation models; the next frontier is enabling multi-task decoding to expand the scope of training data we can leverage. Excited to share our #ICLR2025 Spotlight paper introducing POYO+ 🧠 poyo-plus.github.io 🧵

Interested in foundation models for #neuroscience? Want to contribute to the development of the next-generation of multi-modal models? Come join us at IVADO in Montreal! We're hiring a full-time machine learning specialist for this work. Please share widely! #NeuroAI 🧠📈 🧪

📽️Recordings from our @cosynemeeting.bsky.social #COSYNE2025 workshop on “Agent-Based Models in Neuroscience: Complex Planning, Embodiment, and Beyond" are now online: neuro-agent-models.github.io 🧠🤖

Talk recordings from our COSYNE Workshop on Neuro-foundation Models 🌐🧠 are now up on the workshop website! neurofm-workshop.github.io

Very late, but had a 🔥 time at my first Cosyne presenting my work with @nandahkrishna.bsky.social, Ximeng Mao, @mattperich.bsky.social, and @glajoie.bsky.social on real-time neural decoding with hybrid SSMs. Keep an eye out for a preprint (hopefully) soon 👀 #Cosyne2025 @cosynemeeting.bsky.social

Excited to be at #Cosyne2025 for the first time! I'll be presenting my poster [2-104] during the Friday session. E-poster here: www.world-wide.org/cosyne-25/se...

We'll be presenting two projects at #Cosyne2025, representing two main research directions in our lab: 🧠🤖 🧠📈 1/3

Just a couple days until Cosyne - stop by [3-083] this Saturday and say hi! @nandahkrishna.bsky.social

This will be a more difficult Cosyne than normal, due to both the travel restrictions for people coming from the US and the strike that may be happening at the hotel in Montreal. But, we can still make this an awesome meeting as usual, y'all. Let's pull together and make it happen! 🧠📈 #Cosyne2025

Join us at #COSYNE2025 to explore recent advancements in large-scale training and analysis of brain data! 🧠🟦 We also made a starter pack with (most of) our speakers: go.bsky.app/Ss6RaEF

How can large-scale models + datasets revolutionize neuroscience 🧠🤖🌐? We are excited to announce our workshop: “Building a foundation model for the brain: datasets, theory, and models” at @cosynemeeting.bsky.social #COSYNE2025. Join us in Mont-Tremblant, Canada from March 31 – April 1!

Hi! Looking for an undergrad volunteer who's interested in working with SSMs + transformers for neural decoding/BCIs at Mila! Strong coding + Pytorch skills are a must. Please DM/email me your CV + interests (priority given to those based in Montréal). Thanks! 🧠🤖

Really excited to read this paper - composing multiple diffusion models/EBMs is something I've been really interested in lately. I think there's potential in this direction for improving the controllability/interpretability of your generation process + mixing and matching pre-trained modules.

Some exciting news in time for the holidays 🎄🎁☃️ I'll be at Cosyne 2025 (@cosynemeeting.bsky.social) to present our work on generalizable real-time decoding for BCIs 🧠🦾 Really looking forward to seeing everyone in Montréal 🇨🇦! Stay tuned for more details in the new year🤘

(whipping my around in a crowded party to figure out who just said 'Cocktail Party Effect')

Study computer science to avoid writing essays -> Need to write good grant essays to continue studying computer science

The slides of my NeurIPS lecture "From Diffusion Models to Schrödinger Bridges - Generative Modeling meets Optimal Transport" can be found here drive.google.com/file/d/1eLa3...

sinthlab EoY social! I'm grateful everyday that I get to work with such a kind and intelligent group of individuals. @mattperich.bsky.social @oliviercodol.bsky.social @anirudhgj.bsky.social

We're presenting our spotlight paper on transition path sampling at #NeurIPS2024 this week! Learn how to speed up the conventional Monte Carlo approaches by orders of magnitude Wed 11 Dec 4:30 pm #2606 arxiv.org/abs/2410.07974 first authors = {Yuanqi Du, Michael Plainer, @brekelmaniac.bsky.social}

Come by tomorrow (Wed) 11am-2pm at @neuripsconf.bsky.social Poster #1606 to chat more about AURORA 🌌, text-guided editing, and why it is arguably more interesting than image generation Or anything related to world models, evals/analysis/interp, vision+language reasoning, cogsci, academic life!

Thrilled to share a new preprint exploring the spatial organization of multisensory convergence in the mouse isocortex! 🧠🎉 Even more special as it builds on work I started during my undergrad, a lifetime ago 👨‍🦳 Check it out here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

100% agree w/ Blake here – the biking infrastructure (esp. the amazing Bixi program) might arguably be my fave thing about MTL. But, despite there being a lot of work left to do, I was incredibly heartened to see a big increase of public bike stations the last time I went back home to Toronto 🚲🤞

We’re excited to present ET-Flow at #NeurIPS 2024—an Equivariant Flow Matching model that combines simplicity, efficiency, and precision to set a new standard for 3D molecular conformer generation. 🔖Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2410.22388 🔗Github: github.com/shenoynikhil...

I've had the great pleasure of interacting with Jonny when he was still at Mila. Don't pass up this fantastic opportunity!

🌟 New Research Alert! 🌟 Excited to share our latest work (accepted to NeurIPS2024) on understanding working memory in multi-task RNN models using naturalistic stimuli!: with @takuito.bsky.social and @bashivan.bsky.social #tweeprint below:

Anne Gagneux, Ségolène Martin, @quentinbertrand.bsky.social Remi Emonet and I wrote a tutorial blog post on flow matching: dl.heeere.com/conditional-... with lots of illustrations and intuition! We got this idea after their cool work on improving Plug and Play with FM: arxiv.org/abs/2410.02423

Arxiv sharing reminder pdf ❌ abs ✅

What if you are a student interested in NeuroAI and are looking for resources to learn more? We provide a list of resources with the paper! If you know other great resources, please open a pull request or DM me! We hope this to become a ‘living document’! github.com/8erberg/Neur...

Towards foundation models for intracortical EEG: arxiv.org/abs/2411.10458

Some resources from a very interesting group - especially liked their blog post on ANN infinite limits

Shoot them a follow! They have an awesome organizing team that regularly hosts great lectures

I'm making an unofficial starter pack with some of my colleagues at Mila. WIP for now but here's the link! go.bsky.app/BHKxoss

For the Blueskyers interested in #NeuroAI 🧠🤖, I created a starter pack! Please comment on this if you are not on the list and working in this field 🙂 go.bsky.app/CscFTAr

CCN 2024 was undoubtedly my favourite out of all of the (admittedly few) conferences I've attended. While meaningful in their own ways, I found there were certain scientific and social aspects of CCN that I wouldn't be able to experience in a larger, more chaotic ML conference. #NeuroAI #CompNeuro

A work that only gets better with every subsequent viewing 😋 great to finally see this out!

Here’s our latest work at @glajoie.bsky.social and @mattperich.bsky.social ‘s labs! Excited to see this out. We used a combination of neural recordings & modelling to show that RL yields neural dynamics closer to biology, with useful continual learning properties. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Cool article from one of my PIs @mattperich.bsky.social himself

My first paper! Will be presenting this work as a poster at the HiLD workshop at ICML and CCN - please reach out if you want to chat :)

Is a universal brain decoder possible? Can we train a decoding system that easily transfers to new individuals/tasks? Check out our #NeurIPS2023 paper where we show that it’s possible to transfer from a large pretrained model to achieve SOTA! 🧠🟦 Link: poyo-brain.github.io 🧵