Connectome suggests brain’s synaptic weights follow heavy-tailed distributions, yet most analyses of RNNs assume Gaussian connectivity.  🧵⬇️ Our @alleninstitute.org #NeurIPS2025 paper shows heavy-tailed weights can strongly affect dynamics, trade off robustness + attractor dimension.

Slow Transition to Low-Dimensional Chaos in Heavy-Tailed Recurrent Neural Networks https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.24.684386v1

🚨 Only 4 days left to submit to Data on the Brain and Mind! 🚨 Don’t miss your chance to contribute to our Findings or Tutorial tracks. We’re excited to feature oral presentations in both tracks!

🚨 Deadline Extended 🚨 The submission deadline for the Data on the Brain & Mind Workshop (NeurIPS 2025) has been extended to Sep 8 (AoE)! 🧠✨ We invite you to submit your findings or tutorials via the OpenReview portal: openreview.net/group?id=Neu...

📢 10 days left to submit to the Data on the Brain & Mind Workshop at #NeurIPS2025! 📝 Call for: • Findings (4 or 8 pages) • Tutorials If you’re submitting to ICLR or NeurIPS, consider submitting here too—and highlight how to use a cog neuro dataset in our tutorial track! 🔗 data-brain-mind.github.io

🚨 Excited to announce our #NeurIPS2025 Workshop: Data on the Brain & Mind 📣 Call for: Findings (4- or 8-page) + Tutorials tracks 🎙️ Speakers include @dyamins.bsky.social @lauragwilliams.bsky.social @cpehlevan.bsky.social 🌐 Learn more: data-brain-mind.github.io