A summary figure for a NeurIPS competition where AI agents compete with mice in a visual foraging task.
Mice learn these tasks and are robust to perturbations like fog. Now, we invite you all to make AI agents to beat mice.
We present our #NeurIPS competition. You can learn about it here: robustforaging.github.io (7/n)
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Building spatial world models from sparse transitional episodic memories
Many animals possess a remarkable capacity to rapidly construct flexible mental models of their environments. These world models are crucial for ethologically relevant behaviors such as navigation, ex...
Looks fantastic! Exciting that our results seem to converge. We found something similar: from sparse episodic memories, in-context learning in transformer can build spatial maps that adapt on the fly to environmental changes. Here's our take on this: arxiv.org/abs/2505.13696 Would love to discuss!
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Neuroscientist at UCSF
www.kheirbeklab.org
Biophysics PhD student with Jan Drugowitsch at Harvard Univ. (he/him) | theoretical neuroscience | spatial navigation under uncertainty
Postdoctoral researcher @Penn with @epstein_lab | spatial navigation | computational modelling | Previously @UCL with @hugospiers | @taxibrains
How do we move? I study brains and machines at York University (Assistant Professor). Full-time human.
Neural Control & Computation Lab
www.ncclab.ca
Postdoc studying spatial memory 🐭🧠 at Stanford
Incoming Asst Professor at University of Maryland, Baltimore starting Jan 2026
NINDS Alzheimers K99 awardee
interneuron enthusiast, sharp-wave ripple lover & code monkey
https://aeryjoneslab.github.io
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Professor of Computational Neuroscience and Psychiatry, Aarhus University. PI @ the Embodied Computation Group. We study perception, interoception, & metacogniton.
https://www.the-ecg.org
Computational Neuroscience Research Scientist @UCSF Frank Lab
https://www.edenovellis.com/
https://github.com/edeno
Neuroscientist at the University of Edinburgh
Enthusiastic about all things entorhinal cortex
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Neuroscience. Memory, perception, action.
Assistant professor at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
@dartmouth + @Vassar + @UniofOxford alum. Views are mine. RTs, Likes, and flws ≠ endorsement
Associate Professor of Neuroscience at UC Santa Barbara. I study neural circuits underlying sensation, decision making, and spatial navigation.
Assistant prof at UIUC interested in memory and how neural representations evolve over time.
https://climerlab.org
Back to France after some time in sunny California and happy Copenhagen. Photoroom, Meta (xformers, FairScale, R&D), EyeTribe (acq) Mostly writing around AI
Circuits, Spikes & Development 🐭
Postdoc Fellow in the Moser Lab
~ Developmental Systems Neuroscience ~
Prof. @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social - Runs a lab slslab.org - Works on computation, neuroscience, behavior, vision, optics, imaging, 2p / multiphoton, optical computing, machine learning / AI - Blogs at labrigger.com - Founded @pacificoptica.bsky.social
British Academy postdoctoral fellow at the Centre for the Sciences of Place and Memory.
Working across philosophy and cognitive science.
Interested in disorientation, navigation, and ecological grief.
pablofernandezvelasco.com
Assistant Professor of Neuroscience at Columbia University's Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute. Investigating how the world takes shape in the brain.
https://el-shamayleh.zuckermaninstitute.columbia.edu
