🧠🔬 Excited to share our #NeurIPS2025 paper: "Convolution Goes Higher-Order"! We asked: Can shallow networks be as expressive as deep ones? Inspired by biological vision, we introduce higher-order convolutions that capture complex image patterns standard CNNs miss. 🧵👇

🧠 How do neurons encode information? We know HOW MUCH, but what about WHAT information they encode? Our new work uses diffusion models to decompose neural information down to individual stimuli & features! 🎯Spotlight at #NeurIPS2025 🌟📄 arxiv.org/abs/2505.11309

Happy to share my first work with a connection to myopia, a collaboration with EssilorLuxottica www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

🕳️🐇Into the Rabbit Hull – Part II Continuing our interpretation of DINOv2, the second part of our study concerns the *geometry of concepts* and the synthesis of our findings toward a new representational *phenomenology*: the Minkowski Representation Hypothesis

Figuring out how the brain uses information from visual neurons may require new tools, writes @neurograce.bsky.social. Hear from 10 experts in the field. #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/the-big-pict...

🚨 New preprint out from our lab! 📄 The Rod Bipolar Cell Pathway Contributes to Surround Responses in OFF Retinal Ganglion Cells 👉 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Images (or image patches) are secretly multi-channel signals over groups. Below, the dihedral group of order 8: reflecting/rotating the image permutes the values in the magenta vector. So we can reshape the image into 8-tuples that all permute according to the dihedral group (edge case diagonals).

Thrilled to see this work accepted at NeurIPS! Kudos to @hafezghm.bsky.social for the heroic effort in demonstrating the efficacy of seq-JEPA in representation learning from multiple angles. #MLSky 🧠🤖

We present our preprint on ViV1T, a transformer for dynamic mouse V1 response prediction. We reveal novel response properties and confirm them in vivo. With @wulfdewolf.bsky.social, Danai Katsanevaki, @arnoonken.bsky.social, @rochefortlab.bsky.social. Paper and code at the end of the thread! 🧵1/7

Our illustrated guide to non-Euclidian ML is finally published! Check it out for ⭐️ gorgeous figures (with new additions!) on topology, algebra, and geometry in the field ⭐️ broken down tables for easy reading ⭐️ accessible text, additional refs, and more iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...

🚨New paper🚨 Neural manifolds went from a niche-y word to an ubiquitous term in systems neuro thanks to many interesting findings across fields. But like with any emerging term, people use it very differently. Here, we clarify our take on the term, and review key findings & challenges rdcu.be/ex8hW

Do you study neural systems with feedback at different temporal-, spatial-, hierarchical-, data-, or computational- scales? Have you submitted your abstract to the "Neurocybernetics at Scale" symposium? Due to multiple requests, new abstract submission deadline is 18 July! #AI4Science #cybernetics

NeurReps is back for its 4th edition at NeurIPS 2025! Stay tuned for updates!

Exciting new preprint from the lab: “Adopting a human developmental visual diet yields robust, shape-based AI vision”. A most wonderful case where brain inspiration massively improved AI solutions. Work with @zejinlu.bsky.social @sushrutthorat.bsky.social and Radek Cichy arxiv.org/abs/2507.03168

Lack of spontaneous activity (#retinalwaves) in early development prevents the formation of retinal circuits critical for stabilizing images as we move through the world. doi.org/10.1016/j.ce....

🧠✨ Join us for LAMINR: Learning and Aligning Manifolds of Single-Neuron Invariances — uncover the geometry of thought through implicit neural representations! 📅 Mon, Jun 16 @ 18:00 CET 🔗 Zoom | PW: 314159 🎙️ Part of the #NeurReps Global Seminar Series #AI #Neuroscience #RepresentationLearning

NeurReps 2025 is starting to take shape! If you're interested in serving in the Program Committee 👇

Excited to share our latest study! 🧠✨ We reveal how non-direction-selective retinal ganglion cells encode motion beyond their receptive field, relaying the unconventional signals to the brain. A new insight into multimodal neurons in visual processing! doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

Why do diverse ANNs resemble brain representations? Check out our new paper with Colton Casto, @nogazs.bsky.social , Colin Conwell, Mark Richardson, & @evfedorenko.bsky.social on “Universality of representation in biological and artificial neural networks.” 🧠🤖 tinyurl.com/yckndmjt

Looking for the best systems #neuroscience #phd program? Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown has one! #PhDposition = fully funded. US-style lab rotations and an awesome community in Lisbon, Portugal. Apply by the end of Jan, 2025. http://bit.ly/4iB9SwP

I dream of a future in which single neuron dynamics ➡️ circuit motifs ➡️ distributed computations are taught as part of the same curriculum and no one bats an eye and everyone is happy.

New results! Visual adaptation changes the geometry of V1 population activity: frequent stimuli elicit smaller responses but become more discriminable. Similar results are seen in ANNs trained with metabolic constraints, suggesting these changes emerge from efficient coding. bit.ly/3VJHXRn

Created a starter pack of neuroscience in/from Paris. Let me know if you want to be added (the 'from' can include those not in Paris anymore) or just tap in if you want to know what we're talking about! Regardless, please re-tweet! go.bsky.app/3Zs9w5w

Rayhan and I are presenting today our work on "Diffusion-State Guided Projected Gradient for Inverse Problems." at the D3S3 Workshop. Joint work with Dr. Anima Anandkumar #AInScience #NeurIPS2024 [1/6] Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2410.03463

Eero Simoncelli on the geometry of the distribution of natural images

NeurReps has begun! Join us today for a program combining geometry/topology, deep learning, neuroscience, and interpretability

Our second Keynote speaker is @taliakonkle.bsky.social from Harvard University. Come to hear about "The Cortical Topography of Visual Space Representation"!

Join us for our next Keynote invited talk from Stefanie Jegelka on "In-context Symmetries via Contextual World Models"!

Enigma's at NeurIPS - come find us. New jobs posted on our website for research scientists & engineers in multi-modal modeling & interpretability enigmaproject.ai

Join us this Saturday @neuripsconf.bsky.social !

Excited to talk with the community about what we've been working on! Co-founding @newtheory.ai with @colin-r-odonnell.bsky.social to build new foundational architectures for intelligence. Come join us at NeurIPS in Vancouver this week for our soft-launch event 🎊🥂 partiful.com/e/rgVdt2XkzZ...

To my Bluesky friends attending #NeurIPS2024: Check out our poster: “Poisson Variational Autoencoder” (P-VAE)! The P-VAE is a #generative model that encodes inputs into spike count variables and unifies major neuroscience theories with modern machine learning. w/ Jacob Yates and Dekel Galor 🧠🤖🧠📈

Another cool "digital twin" work from Wood’s lab After the virtual chicks, this time: "We embodied artificial neural networks in artificial fish and raised the artificial fish in virtual fish tanks that mimicked the rearing conditions of biological fish" #NeuroAI www.nature.com/articles/s41...

How do interneurons reshape neural responses? I'm excited to present work with @eerosim.bsky.social at #NeurIPS2024 that proposes a nonlinear recurrent circuit model motivated by efficient coding theory. Poster: 4:30p on Fri, Dec 13 Paper: openreview.net/forum?id=ojL...

I'll be in Vancouver for the next week @neuripsconf.bsky.social. Who will I see there? Happy to chat about vision, comp neuro, equivariance, learning representations. In case you share my interests, consider joining our workshop @neurreps.bsky.social on Dec 14th 🧠

New 716 hour EMG dataset just dropped ✨ ai.meta.com/blog/open-so...

Excited to present "Latent Functional Maps" at #NeurIPS ! We show how neural models can be aligned by matching function spaces on representation manifolds, providing a unified framework for model comparison, matching, and information transfer. 📜: arxiv.org/abs/2406.14183 👇🧵

The Undergrad Travel Grant Program (deadline: Dec 6th) provides an opportunity for undergrads to learn more about comp systems neuro. It’s especially suited for students considering neuro graduate study! Apply here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... More info: www.cosyne.org/travel-grants

Excited to release what we’ve been working on at Amaranth Foundation, our latest whitepaper, NeuroAI for AI safety! A detailed, ambitious roadmap for how neuroscience research can help build safer AI systems while accelerating both virtual neuroscience and neurotech. 1/N

Re-reading your rejected manuscript

🚨 We just updated our perspective on representational alignment. The most recent version is both more crisp and more comprehensive. We try to find common language across research disciplines for aligning the representations from different info processing systems! arxiv.org/abs/2310.13018

Sorbonne Université est heureuse de rejoindre officiellement BlueSky ! 🦋 Nous avons hâte de partager ici notre actualité recherche et de contribuer ainsi aux débats scientifiques et sociétaux ! 🎓 Abonnez-vous pour suivre notre actualité ! #HelloESR #ESR

My deep learning course at the University of Geneva is available on-line. 1000+ slides, ~20h of screen-casts. Full of examples in PyTorch. fleuret.org/dlc/ And my "Little Book of Deep Learning" is available as a phone-formatted pdf (nearing 700k downloads!) fleuret.org/lbdl/

Alright #neuroAI 😉 crew and those in #AI #ML perhaps interested in brain-inspired models and what’s next (not just foundation models please!). Here is my vision/roadmap of the next steps. A reflection & projection wrapped into a Perspective. Feedback very much welcomed. 🧠🧪👩‍🔬 arxiv.org/abs/2411.15234

Yesterday's seminar was great, thanks @amlab.bsky.social for hosting! In case you missed it, you'll find this and previous seminars on our YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/@neurreps

Episode 5 of our podcast is out! We discuss how complicated it is to assess intelligence, whether in humans, animals, or machines. With two fantastic guests: Comparative Psychologist Erica Cartmill and Computer Scientist Ellie Pavlick. Check it out! complexity.simplecast.com/episodes/nat...

Only 0.5% of neuroscience research focuses on issues exclusive to the female body. Let’s be the change. 🧠💪

Daily neuroscience-related posts on Bluesky this week have increased more than 400 percent, on average, compared with October. By @callimcflurry.bsky.social www.thetransmitter.org/community/hu...

We collected lecture notes and blog posts by group members about recent topics in deep learning theory here. Hope it is useful! pehlevan.seas.harvard.edu/resources-0