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Martin Schrimpf

@mschrimpf.bsky.social
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NeuroAI Prof @EPFL 🇨🇭. ML + Neuro 🤖🧠. Brain-Score, MIRAGE, TopoLM. Previously: PhD @MIT, ML @Salesforce, Neuro @HarvardMed, & co-founder @Integreat. go.epfl.ch/NeuroAI

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Rob Mok @robmok.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
📢 Announcing the 11th CiNet Conference: "From Biological to General Artificial Intelligence: Computational and Experimental Approaches to Understanding and Modeling the Brain" 5–7 October 2026, CiNet, Osaka, Japan Organized by yours truly & Shinji Nishimoto #neuroskyence #psychscisky #mlsky 🧠🤖 1/
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Martin Schrimpf @mschrimpf.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Hiring postdocs @EPFL: please reach out and/or apply to the AI Center fellowship www.epfl.ch/research/fun.... My #NeuroAI group is excited about testing and building models of brain and behavior, from sensory through language to cognition, and from healthy to dysfunction (treatment)! 🧠🤖🧪
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EPFL AI Center and Swiss AI Initiative Postdoctoral Fellowships
The 3rd call is now open with a submission deadline on 9 November 2026 17:00 (CET).
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Hannes Mehrer @CCN2026 @hannesmehrer.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
"So, you have a highly predictive model, now what?" At this #CCN2026 event on Wed, 5 Aug, 4pm at NYU Skirball Theatre I will present work on using ANN brain models for visual prostheses (tinyurl.com/modelguidedm...) and for dyslexia (tinyurl.com/neuroaidysle..., first author: Melika Honarmand).
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Martin Schrimpf @mschrimpf.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Come say hi at #CCN2026! Scaling laws for visual cortex, topographic multimodal models, video generation for the lateral stream, model-enabled applications, and a GAC on whether #NeuroAI is asking the right questions
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Badr AlKhamissi @bkhmsi.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Excited to be at #CCN2026 in NYC! I'll be presenting our spotlight poster, Topo-Omni, with @hannesmehrer.bsky.social 🧠 📍 Poster F14 — Session F 🗓️ Thursday, Aug 6 Come by if you're around, we'd love to talk about how our multimodal model can discover functionally selective brain regions!
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Minds, Machines, and Brains (MMB) @mmb-journal.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Hello world! 👋 We’re Minds, Machines, and Brains (MMB) 👤🤖🧠 a new open access journal from @mitpress.bsky.social exploring the principles of intelligence and cognition across natural and artificial minds. Submissions open this Fall! 🔗 direct.mit.edu/mmb
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Minds, Machines, and Brains | MIT Press
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Martin Schrimpf @mschrimpf.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
What a treat to host @dyamins.bsky.social at EPFL this past month to dig into the most impactful future of #NeuroAI. A few conclusions we landed on: 1. Task optimization is a powerful starting point for most (all?) brain systems 2. Brain data is the bottleneck 3. Major opportunities in applications
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Yingtian (David) Tang @davidtyt.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
🚨 NEW PREPRINT Videos strongly shape activity across the visual cortex. But can we design videos that maximally drive specific brain regions? We present NEvo 🧬🧠 — a neural-guided evolutionary framework that synthesizes videos to maximally activate target visual ROIs. (1/10)
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Martin Schrimpf @mschrimpf.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Really proud of @akgokce.bsky.social's work, I think this is an important result for #NeuroAI: ML-style pretraining saturates for brain-aligned models, but hybrid task+data optimization keeps scaling. Modalities transfer: fine-tune on EEG and you improve electrophysiology, fMRI & MEG predictions!🧠🤖🧪
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Martin Schrimpf @mschrimpf.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
A wiring-cost-like loss has been shown to induce brain-like topography in vision (eg www.cell.com/neuron/fullt... and language (e.g. topolm.epfl.ch, toponets.github.io). The same spatial loss yields cognitive clusters in a multimodal model which even discovers new ones! topo-omni.epfl.ch #NeuroAI🤖🧠🧪
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A unifying framework for functional organization in early and higher ventral visual cortex
Margalit et al. develop a topographic artificial neural network that predicts both functional responses and spatial organization of multiple cortical areas of the primate visual system. In turn, the m...
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Badr AlKhamissi @bkhmsi.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
🧠 When you watch a movie, your brain blends sight, sound, and speech into a single experience. Should models of the brain blend them too, or keep the senses separate until the very end? We built MIRAGE to find out. It sets a new SOTA for predicting whole-brain fMRI from movies. 🧵
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Martin Schrimpf @mschrimpf.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Two simple ideas for building improved brain encoding models: 1. learn to use representations from all model layers via a gating mechanism + 2. start from natively multimodal features for multimodal predictions. State of the art performance; see mirage-brain.epfl.ch for details #NeuroAI 🧠🤖🧪
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MIRAGE: Adaptive Multimodal Gating for Whole-Brain fMRI Encoding
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Badr AlKhamissi @bkhmsi.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Excited to be in Rio for #ICLR2026 🇧🇷 I'll be presenting our work, Mixture of Cognitive Reasoners (aka MiCRo), on Friday at Pavilion 3, 10:30 AM (#1610). Come say hi :D Happy to chat about NeuroAI, representational & cultural alignment, and/or test-time learning 🧠
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Hannes Mehrer @CCN2026 @hannesmehrer.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
I will be at #ICRL2026 in Rio to present our work on model-guided microstimulation. Poster session: Thursday, 23 April, 10.30am - 1pm at pavilion 3, poster nr. 1620 Initial BlueSkyPrint here: tinyurl.com/modelguidedmicrostim
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Martin Schrimpf @mschrimpf.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
My lab is hiring a software engineer to support our #NeuroAI research: careers.epfl.ch/job/Lausanne.... Please consider applying if you want to build out the infrastructure enabling models of the human brain & mind (e.g., www.Brain-Score.org). We will start screening applications this week 🧠🤖
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Research Engineer, NeuroAI
Research Engineer, NeuroAI
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Benjamin Cowley @benjocowley.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
DNN models of the brain are getting bigger. Are we replacing one complicated system in vivo with another in silico? In new work, we seek the *smallest* DNN models of visual cortex, balancing prediction with parsimony. It turns out these compact models are surprisingly small! rdcu.be/e5H8G
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Compact deep neural network models of the visual cortex
Nature - Parsimonious deep neural network models can be used for prediction of visual neuron responses.
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Badr AlKhamissi @bkhmsi.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
🚀 The Re-Align Challenge is now LIVE! We’re inviting you to explore what properties of vision models and data lead to convergences and divergences in representational alignment. 🔗 Get started: huggingface.co/spaces/repre... 🧵👇
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Re-Align Hackathon Leaderboard - a Hugging Face Space by representational-alignment
Submit Blue/Red hackathon JSON and rank by alignment scores.
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Martin Schrimpf @mschrimpf.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Looking forward to presenting at the #AAAI #NeuroAI workshop; including 3 projects that were just accepted to ICLR! arxiv.org/abs/2509.24597, arxiv.org/abs/2510.03684, arxiv.org/abs/2506.13331 🧪🧠🤖
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Inducing Dyslexia in Vision Language Models
Dyslexia, a neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by persistent reading difficulties, is often linked to reduced activity of the visual word form area in the ventral occipito-temporal cortex. Trad...
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Badr AlKhamissi @bkhmsi.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
🎉 Re-Align is back for its 4th edition at ICLR 2026! 📣 We invite submissions on representational alignment, spanning ML, Neuroscience, CogSci, and related fields. 📝 Tracks: Short (≤5p), Long (≤10p), Challenge (blog) ⏰ Deadline: Feb 5, 2026 for papers 🔗 representational-alignment.github.io/2026/
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Martin Schrimpf @mschrimpf.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
One week left to apply to the EPFL computer science PhD program www.epfl.ch/education/ph.... It's an amazing environment to do impactful research 🧪 (with unparalleled compute)! My NeuroAI group is hiring 🧠🤖. Consider this review service by our fantastic PhD students: www.linkedin.com/posts/spnesh...
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UCL NeuroAI @ucl-neuroai.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
For our next UCL #NeuroAI online seminar, we are happy to welcome Dr Martin Schrimpf @mschrimpf.bsky.social (EPFL) 🗓️Wed 19 Nov 2025 ⏰2-3pm GMT Neuro -> AI and Back Again: Integrative Models of the Human Brain in Health and Disease ℹ️ Details / registration: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ucl-neuroa...
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UCL NeuroAI Talk Series
A series of NeuroAI themed talks organised by the UCL NeuroAI community. Talks will continue on a monthly basis.
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Martin Schrimpf @mschrimpf.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Thrilled to be among this fantastic cohort of AI2050 Fellows. This is a great recognition of the transformative potential of #NeuroAI and our lab’s work in this space 🧪🧠🤖. Many thanks to @schmidtsciences.bsky.social for the support!
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The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Researchers are using LLMs to analyze the literature, brainstorm hypotheses, build models and interact with complex datasets. Hear from @mschrimpf.bsky.social, @neurokim.bsky.social, @jeremymagland.bsky.social, @profdata.bsky.social and others. #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/machine-lear...
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How neuroscientists are using AI
Eight researchers explain how they are using large language models to analyze the literature, brainstorm hypotheses and interact with complex datasets.
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Martin Schrimpf @mschrimpf.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Applications open for postdoc fellowships at the @epfl-ai-center.bsky.social, deadline Nov 3. www.epfl.ch/research/fun.... Great opportunity to work with our world class faculty; the fellowship is set up for collaboration between multiple labs, including my #NeuroAI group 🤖🧠🧪
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EPFL AI Center and Swiss AI Initiative Postdoctoral Fellowships
The 2nd call is now open with a deadline for submissions of 3 November (17.00 CET)!Applications are encouraged from researchers at the postdoctoral level with a keen interest in collaborative, interdi...
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Martin Schrimpf @mschrimpf.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
A glimpse at what #NeuroAI brain models might enable: a topographic vision model predicts stimulation patterns that steer complex object recognition behavior in primates. This could be a key 'software' component for visual prosthetic hardware 🧠🤖🧪
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Hannes Mehrer @CCN2026 @hannesmehrer.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
🧠 New preprint: we show that model-guided microstimulation can steer monkey visual behavior. Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2510.03684 🧵
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Hannes Mehrer @CCN2026 @hannesmehrer.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Very happy to be part of this project: Melika Honarmand has done a great job of using vision-language-models to predict the behavior of people with dyslexia. A first step toward modeling various disease states using artificial neural networks.
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Martin Schrimpf @mschrimpf.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
I've been arguing that #NeuroAI should model the brain in health *and* in disease -- very excited to share a first step from Melika Honarmand: inducing dyslexia in vision-language-models via targeted perturbations of visual-word-form units (analogous to human VWFA) 🧠🤖🧪 arxiv.org/abs/2509.24597
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Martin Schrimpf @mschrimpf.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Come be our colleague at EPFL! Several open calls for positions 🧪🧠🤖 * Neuroscience www.epfl.ch/about/workin... (deadline Oct 1) * Life Science Engineering www.epfl.ch/about/workin... * CS general call www.epfl.ch/about/workin... * Learning Sciences www.epfl.ch/about/workin...
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Faculty Position in Neuroscience
The School of Life Sciences at EPFL invites applications for a Tenure Track Assistant Professor position in Neuroscience. At EPFL researchers develop and apply innovative technologies to understand br...
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Michael Beyeler @mbeyeler.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
👁️🧠 New preprint: We demonstrate the first data-driven neural control framework for a visual cortical implant in a blind human! TL;DR Deep learning lets us synthesize efficient stimulation patterns that reliably evoke percepts, outperforming conventional calibration. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Diagram showing three ways to control brain activity with a visual prosthesis. The goal is to match a desired pattern of brain responses. One method uses a simple one-to-one mapping, another uses an inverse neural network, and a third uses gradient optimization. Each method produces a stimulation pattern, which is tested in both computer simulations and in the brain of a blind participant with an implant. The figure shows that the neural network and gradient methods reproduce the target brain activity more accurately than the simple mapping.
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EPFL School of Computer and Communication Sciences @icepfl.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
EPFL, ETH Zurich & CSCS just released Apertus, Switzerland’s first fully open-source large language model. Trained on 15T tokens in 1,000+ languages, it’s built for transparency, responsibility & the public good. Read more: actu.epfl.ch/news/apertus...
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EPFL Brain Mind Institute @epfl-brainmind.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Action potential 👉 3 faculty opportunities to join EPFL neuroscience 1. Tenure Track Assistant Professor in Neuroscience go.epfl.ch/neurofaculty, 2. Tenure Track Assistant Professor in Life Sciences Engineering, or 3. Associate Professor (tenured) in Life Sciences Engineering go.epfl.ch/LSEfaculty
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Erin Grant @eringrant.me · 13/08/2025
Our #CCN2025 GAC debate w/ @gretatuckute.bsky.social, Gemma Roig (www.cvai.cs.uni-frankfurt.de), Jacqueline Gottlieb (gottlieblab.com), Klaus Oberauer, @mschrimpf.bsky.social &‬ @brittawestner.bsky.social asks: 📊 What benchmarks are useful for cognitive science? 💭 2025.ccneuro.org/gac
Speakers and organizers of the GAC debate. Time and location of the GAC debate: 5 PM in Room C1.03.
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Martin Schrimpf @mschrimpf.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
As part of #CCN2025 our satellite event on Monday will explore how we can model the brain as a physical system, from topography to biophysical detail -- and how such models can potentially lead to impactful applications neuroailab.github.io/modeling-the-physical-brain. Join us! 🧪🧠 🤖
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Dan Yamins @dyamins.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
It was a steep climb in the "early days" (~2012) up the ImageNet gradient towards better visual system models. That tapped out ~2015 after resnet ... But now w/ video models starting to perform, we can push forward again. Task-driven brain models ftw. amazing... @mschrimpf.bsky.social
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Martin Schrimpf @mschrimpf.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
What makes visual processing in the brain so powerful and flexible? Very excited to share our new work where we started from SOTA models that accurately predict dynamic brain activity during hours of video watching, and investigated core computations underlying visual perception
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Badr AlKhamissi @bkhmsi.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
🚨 New Preprint!! Thrilled to share with you our latest work: “Mixture of Cognitive Reasoners”, a modular transformer architecture inspired by the brain’s functional networks: language, logic, social reasoning, and world knowledge. 1/ 🧵👇
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Hannes Mehrer @CCN2026 @hannesmehrer.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Announcement: Workshop at #CCN2025 🧠 Modeling the Physical Brain: Spatial Organization & Biophysical Constraints 🗓️ Monday, Aug 11 | 🕦 11:30–18:00 CET | 📍 Room A2.07 🔗 Register: tinyurl.com/CCN-physical... #NeuroAI @cogcompneuro.bsky.social
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Badr AlKhamissi @bkhmsi.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Excited to be at #NAACL2025 in Albuquerque! I’ll be presenting our paper “The LLM Language Network” as an Oral tomorrow at 2:00 PM in Ballroom C, hope to see you there! Looking forward to all the discussions! 🎤 🧠
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Martin Schrimpf @mschrimpf.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
I'm at #ICLR, lmk if you'd like to chat. Come by our TopoLM Oral on Friday (poster tonight!) iclr.cc/virtual/2025..., arxiv.org/html/2410.11516
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benlonnqvist.bsky.social @benlonnqvist.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
AI vision is insanely good nowadays—but is it really like human vision or something else entirely? In our new pre-print, we pinpoint a fundamental visual mechanism that's trivial for humans yet causes most models to fail spectacularly. Let's dive in👇🧠 [arxiv.org/abs/2504.05253]
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Badr AlKhamissi @bkhmsi.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
🚨 New Preprint!! LLMs trained on next-word prediction (NWP) show high alignment with brain recordings. But what drives this alignment—linguistic structure or world knowledge? And how does this alignment evolve during training? Our new paper explores these questions. 👇🧵
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Antoine Bosselut @abosselut.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
(NAACL) @bkhmsi.bsky.social showed that neuroscience localizers uncover brain-like functional specializations in LLMs. Across 18 LLMs, he discovered neuron groups that mirror the brain’s language, theory of mind, and multiple demand networks! Work w/ @mschrimpf.bsky.social @gretatuckute.bsky.social
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Badr AlKhamissi @bkhmsi.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Excited to share that our paper, 'The LLM Language Network,' has been accepted to NAACL 2025! Looking forward to presenting it in Albuquerque—see you there! 🏜️ #NAACL2025
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CAJAL Training @cajal-training.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
🚀 Applications are OPEN for the CAJAL NeuroAI course! Learn how AI & deep learning help us model brain activity & behavior. Work with experts, get hands-on training & join a global network! 📅 Apply by March 7 🔗 loom.ly/xg_uRKE #NeuroAI #DeepLearning #Neuroscience
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Badr AlKhamissi @bkhmsi.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
🚨 New Paper! Can neuroscience localizers uncover brain-like functional specializations in LLMs? 🧠🤖 Yes! We analyzed 18 LLMs and found units mirroring the brain's language, theory of mind, and multiple demand networks! w/ @gretatuckute.bsky.social, @abosselut.bsky.social, @mschrimpf.bsky.social 🧵👇
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Martin Schrimpf @mschrimpf.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
One month left to apply to this faculty position in neuromodulation: www.epfl.ch/about/workin... The EPFL NeuroX institute is a truly unique environment combining neuro-technology, -science, and -computation with the ultimate goal of applications in medicine. Come be our colleague! #neuro #tech 🧠
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Faculty Position in Neuromodulation
The Schools of Engineering (STI), Life Sciences (SV) and Computer and Communication Sciences (IC) at EPFL invite applications for a tenure-track assistant faculty position to hold the Medtronic chair ...
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Martin Schrimpf @mschrimpf.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
A few people asked why my slides looked jumbled up at the NIH BRAIN workshop -- I promise they were fine when I sent them in last week 😄 Copy of them here for reference: mschrimpf.altervista.org/wp-content/u... #NeuroAI 🧠🤖🧪
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Martin Schrimpf @mschrimpf.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
For a while, gains in AI have translated into gains in modeling the brain. We test if that will continue to be the case with recent advances in scaling. Surprisingly we get mixed results: while increased scale advances model alignment to behavior, neural alignment saturates: arxiv.org/abs/2411.05712
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Martin Schrimpf @mschrimpf.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
NIH NeuroAI workshop happening today! Our instructions as speakers were to imagine what the next 10 years would bring for the field. Will be streamed. n4solutionsllc.com/brainneuroai/ #BRAIN #NeuroAI #neuroscience #AI
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BRAIN NeuroAI Workshop – Home - N4 Solutions
We would like to invite you to register at the upcoming NIH BRAIN NeuroAI Workshop to be held on November 12th & 13th, 2024 at the NIH Campus in Bethesda, Maryland.
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