Basile Confavreux

Deep thanks to the brilliant team: @zoeharrington.bsky.social
@kaniamaciej.bsky.social
Poornima Ramesh, Anastasia Krouglova, @bozelosp.bsky.social @jakhmack.bsky.social @saxelab.bsky.social @ppjgoncalves.bsky.social @tpvogels.bsky.social

We’ve successfully automated part of the (neuro)scientific process. Now I may be out of a job. After a lot of iterations, here’s our framework for automatic discovery, built to embrace degeneracy and the realities of underconstrained modeling.

Memory by a thousand rules: Automated discovery of functional multi-type plasticity rules reveals variety & degeneracy at the heart of learning Synaptic plasticity is the basis of learning and memory, but the link between synaptic changes and neural function remains elusive. Here, we used automated search algorithms to obtain thousands of str...

We just pushed “Memory by a 1000 rules” onto bioRxiv, where we use clever #ML to find #plasticity quadruplets (EE, EI, IE, II) that learn basic stability in spiking nets. Why is it cool? We find 1000s!! of solutions, and they don’t just stabilise. They #memorise! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...