Erin Grant

Data-driven emergence of convolutional structure in neural networks | PNAS Exploiting data invariances is crucial for efficient learning in both artificial and biological neural circuits. Understanding how neural networks ...

How about controlling sparsity of the code via task alone: doi.org/10.1073/pnas... and our follow-up arxiv.org/abs/2501.17284? Though the loop to experiment is not yet closed :)

Congrats, Dan!!

How do task dynamics impact learning in networks with internal dynamics?

Excited to share our ICML Oral paper on learning dynamics in linear RNNs!
with @clementinedomine.bsky.social @mpshanahan.bsky.social and Pedro Mediano

openreview.net/forum?id=KGO...

How To Do Soul-Craft With State Tools On Literacy and AI

"our society selects for the affordances of a medium—speed, ease, efficiency—not for its effects. And it is the effects of literacy that hold its civilizational value. [Those] deep cognitive and ethical capacities are not being selected for. They are not easily monetized or optimized."

Phew decisions are out..!! Congratulations to the authors of the 26 papers selected for the first edition of the CCN Proceedings 📜 @eringrant.bsky.social @neurosteven.bsky.social @cogcompneuro.bsky.social 1/2

Because we must build good things while we scream about the bad, I have started a "Data for Good" team @data-for-good-team.bsky.social that partners with organizations needing short-term data science help. We have three projects ongoing & will add more as our capacity grows.
data-for-good-team.org

That’s a wrap for Re²-Align 🤖 🧠👤 at #ICLR2025 🦁🥳— thanks for being part of it! We’re probably just getting started… see you all at Re³-Align🌷😉

🌟 Don't miss our EXCITING lineup of speakers (@irisgroen.bsky.social,
Dianbo Liu, @mschrimpf.bsky.social
, Janet Wiles, @itsneuronal.bsky.social) and our 🌶️ panel discussion moderated by @thisismyhat.bsky.social which will also include @noahdgoodman.bsky.social! 🔥

The afternoon session is continuing now! @iclr-conf.bsky.social

Deadline extended till Feb. 5th!

Last year, we funded 250 authors and other contributors to attend #ICLR2024 in Vienna as part of this program. If you or your organization want to directly support contributors this year, please get in touch! Hope to see you in Singapore at #ICLR2025!

Our representational alignment workshop returns to #ICLR2025! Submit your work on how ML/cogsci/neuro systems represent the world & what shapes these representations 💭🧠🤖

w/ @thisismyhat.bsky.social @dotadotadota.bsky.social, @sucholutsky.bsky.social @lukasmut.bsky.social @siddsuresh97.bsky.social

Thank you, Sebastian!!

If you missed it at the #NeurIPS2024 posters! Work led by @leonlufkin.bsky.social on analytical dynamics of localization in simple neural nets, as seen in real+artificial nets and distilled by @aingrosso.bsky.social @sebgoldt.bsky.social.
Leon is a fantastic collaborator + looking for PhD positions!

Getting aligned on representational alignment Biological and artificial information processing systems form representations of the world that they can use to categorize, reason, plan, navigate, and make decisions. How can we measure the similarit...

🚨 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

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Beyond the symbols vs signals debate | Royal Society Discussion meeting organised by Professor Marta Kwiatkowska FRS, Professor Peter Dayan FRS, Professor Tom Griffiths and Professor Doina Precup

Lightweight poster submissions for this stellar RS program end tomorrow (Sept. 17th)! I hear from Marta Kwiatkowska that Rich Sutton coined the title, so expect: bitter lessons alongside the longstanding debate between top-down vs. bottom-up approaches in CogSci :)
royalsociety.org/science-even...