Exciting new paper from Dan Levenstein! It delves into RNNs, replay, predictive objectives & structured cognitive maps, shedding long-overdue light on the 'predictive RNNs == cognitive maps' paradigm. A crucial addition to the field! This tweet thread is well worth your time...

A big thank you to nature and Nina Vogt for their recent highlight of RatInABox in Nature Methods

Find out more in our full journal article in eLife - the journal elifesciences.org/articles/85274
github.com/RatInABox-Lab/…

This paper correctly argues the future of Free Open Source Software for Science isn't looking great, largely because the incentive structures in academia align against 'wasting' time on these projects (which we all rely on)...change is needed!

arxiv.org/pdf/2403.19394…

Thanks for the share! To clarify, not actually a reviewed preprint, just a published article (this was under eLifes old model)

I am presenting at #cosyne2024 my work on biologically-plausible learning rules for rapid unsupervised learning. Please come check out my poster #176 this Feb 29th!

biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

In CosyneMeeting, Lisbon excited to present some (in my entirely unbiased opinion) EXTREMELY exciting work:

• 1-140 A bioplausible generative model for navigation - we solved the hippocampus ;)
• 3-138 RatInABox: a toolkit for modelling all things navigation

Come and chat!!

A student favourite, part of the Organizing Team and an Instructor for the CaMinA course!

Meet Tom George, a PhD researcher at UCL

Thank you Tom for all the work and the energy that you bring! #VolunteerAppreciation

RatInABox is a computational toolkit to build models for the brain’s role in navigational behaviour. elifesciences.org/digests/85274/….

Read the story behind RatInABox, a new toolkit for modelling navigation in the brain published today in eLife - the journal and developed by SWC PhD student Tom George: sainsburywellcome.org/web/blog/ratin… TReND-CaMinA

New survey on predictive representations in reinforcement learning, covering AI, cognitive, and neuroscience perspectives:
arxiv.org/abs/2402.06590

Joint work with Wilka Carvalho, Momchil Tomov, Will de Cothi, Caswell Barry

It's awesome that we've partnered with the Allen Institute for this years 🇷🇼🌍TReND-CaMinA🌍🇷🇼summer course...already looking forward to it!

The Clopath Lab is 🔥hiring 🔥a PostDoc and a fully-funded PhD student in the field of computational neuroscience 🧠 at Imperial College London. Details for application here cclopath.bg-research.cc.ic.ac.uk

Don't forget to apply for our Computational Neuroscience & Machine Learning Basics course .

This year hosted Carnegie Mellon University Africa Kigali, Rwanda🇷🇼on the 8-24th July.

Application deadline: 15th of February

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Excited to share a new paper with Kim Stachenfeld: “Predictive auxiliary objectives in deep RL mimic learning in the brain”, which has been accepted as an #ICLR2024 oral and #Cosyne2024 talk! openreview.net/forum?id=agPpm…. A short summary:

🧠💻TReND-CaMinA summer school 🧠💻applications are open!

Apply here👉🏼 trendinafrica.org/trend-camina-c… to join us in Rwanda this July.

Undergrads, MSc's, PhDs and young researchers in the natural sciences or engineering (with an interest in neuro and ML) are encouraged to apply.

We are delighted that Caswell Barry will be our new Vice-Dean Research from 01 Feb 2024. Caswell is Professorial Research Fellow in @uclcdb, researching how neural networks can store, update & retrieve information about the world Caswell Barry UCL Faculty of Life Sciences UCL Biosciences