Workshop
Real Neurons & Hidden Units: future directions at the intersection of neuroscience and AI
Guillaume Lajoie · Eli Shlizerman · Maximilian Puelma Touzel · Jessica Thompson · Konrad Kording
Recent years have witnessed an explosion of progress in AI. With it, a proliferation of experts and practitioners are pushing the boundaries of the field without regard to the brain. This is in stark contrast with the field's transdisciplinary origins, when interest in designing intelligent algorithms was shared by neuroscientists, psychologists and computer scientists alike. Similar progress has been made in neuroscience where novel experimental techniques now afford unprecedented access to brain activity and function. However, it is unclear how to maximize them to truly advance an end-to-end understanding of biological intelligence. The traditional neuroscience research program, however, lacks frameworks to truly advance an end-to-end understanding of biological intelligence. For the first time, mechanistic discoveries emerging from deep learning, reinforcement learning and other AI fields may be able to steer fundamental neuroscience research in ways beyond standard uses of machine learning for modelling and data analysis. For example, successful training algorithms in artificial networks, developed without biological constraints, can motivate research questions and hypotheses about the brain. Conversely, a deeper understanding of brain computations at the level of large neural populations may help shape future directions in AI. This workshop aims to address this novel situation by building on existing AI-Neuro relationships but, crucially, outline new directions for artificial systems and next-generation neuroscience experiments. We invite contributions concerned with the modern intersection between neuroscience and AI and in particular, addressing questions that can only now be tackled due to recent progress in AI on the role of recurrent dynamics, inductive biases to guide learning, global versus local learning rules, and interpretability of network activity. This workshop will promote discussion and showcase diverse perspectives on these open questions.
Schedule
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Sat 8:15 a.m. - 8:30 a.m.
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Opening Remarks
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Guillaume Lajoie · Jessica Thompson · Maximilian Puelma Touzel · Eli Shlizerman · Konrad Kording 🔗 |
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Sat 8:30 a.m. - 9:00 a.m.
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Invited Talk: Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning: Computational Advances and Neuroscience Connections
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Doina Precup 🔗 |
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Sat 9:00 a.m. - 9:30 a.m.
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Invited Talk: Deep learning without weight transport
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Timothy Lillicrap 🔗 |
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Sat 9:30 a.m. - 9:45 a.m.
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Contributed talk: Eligibility traces provide a data-inspired alternative to backpropagation through time. Guillaume Bellec, Franz Scherr, Elias Hajek, Darjan Salaj, Anand Subramoney, Robert Legenstein, Wolfgang Maass
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Sat 9:45 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.
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Coffee Break + Posters
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Sat 10:30 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
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Invited Talk: Computing and learning in the presence of neural noise
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Cristina Savin 🔗 |
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Sat 11:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
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Invited Talk: Universality and individuality in neural dynamics across large populations of recurrent networks
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David Sussillo 🔗 |
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Sat 11:30 a.m. - 11:45 a.m.
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Contributed talk: How well do deep neural networks trained on object recognition characterize the mouse visual system? Santiago A. Cadena, Fabian H. Sinz, Taliah Muhammad, Emmanouil Froudarakis, Erick Cobos, Edgar Y. Walker, Jake Reimer, Matthias Bethge,
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Sat 11:45 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
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Contributed talk: Functional Annotation of Human Cognitive States using Graph Convolution Networks Yu Zhang, Pierre Bellec
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Sat 12:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
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Lunch Break
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Sat 2:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.
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Invited Talk: Simultaneous rigidity and flexibility through modularity in cognitive maps for navigation
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Ila Fiete 🔗 |
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Sat 2:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
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Invited Talk: Theories for the emergence of internal representations in neural networks: from perception to navigation
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Surya Ganguli 🔗 |
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Sat 3:00 p.m. - 3:15 p.m.
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Contributed talk: Adversarial Training of Neural Encoding Models on Population Spike Trains Poornima Ramesh, Mohamad Atayi, Jakob H Macke
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Sat 3:15 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
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Contributed talk: Learning to Learn with Feedback and Local Plasticity. Jack Lindsey
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Sat 3:30 p.m. - 4:15 p.m.
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Coffee Break + Posters
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Sat 4:15 p.m. - 4:45 p.m.
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Poster Session
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114 presentersPravish Sainath · Mohamed Akrout · Charles Delahunt · Nathan Kutz · Guangyu Robert Yang · Joseph Marino · L F Abbott · Nicolas Vecoven · Damien Ernst · andrew warrington · Michael Kagan · Kyunghyun Cho · Kameron Harris · Leopold Grinberg · John J. Hopfield · Dmitry Krotov · Taliah Muhammad · Erick Cobos · Edgar Walker · Jacob Reimer · Andreas Tolias · Alexander Ecker · Janaki Sheth · Yu Zhang · Maciej Wołczyk · Jacek Tabor · Szymon Maszke · Roman Pogodin · Dane Corneil · Wulfram Gerstner · Baihan Lin · Guillermo Cecchi · Jenna M Reinen · Irina Rish · Guillaume Bellec · Darjan Salaj · Anand Subramoney · Wolfgang Maass · Yueqi Wang · Ari Pakman · Jin Hyung Lee · Liam Paninski · Bryan Tripp · Colin Graber · Alex Schwing · Luke Prince · Gabriel Ocker · Michael Buice · Benjamin Lansdell · Konrad Kording · Jack Lindsey · Terrence Sejnowski · Matthew Farrell · Eric Shea-Brown · Nicolas Farrugia · Victor Nepveu · Jiwoong Im · Kristin Branson · Brian Hu · Ramakrishnan Iyer · Stefan Mihalas · Sneha Aenugu · Hananel Hazan · Sihui Dai · Tan Nguyen · Doris Tsao · Richard Baraniuk · Anima Anandkumar · Hidenori Tanaka · Aran Nayebi · Stephen Baccus · Surya Ganguli · Dean Pospisil · Eilif Muller · Jeffrey S Cheng · Gaël Varoquaux · Kamalaker Dadi · Dimitrios C Gklezakos · Rajesh PN Rao · Anand Louis · Christos Papadimitriou · Santosh Vempala · Naganand Yadati · Daniel Zdeblick · Daniela M Witten · Nicholas Roberts · Vinay Prabhu · Pierre Bellec · Poornima Ramesh · Jakob H Macke · Santiago Cadena · Guillaume Bellec · Franz Scherr · Owen Marschall · Robert Kim · Hannes Rapp · Marcio Fonseca · Oliver Armitage · Jiwoong Im · Thomas Hardcastle · Abhishek Sharma · Wyeth Bair · Adrian Valente · Shane Shang · Merav Stern · Rutuja Patil · Peter Wang · Sruthi Gorantla · Peter Stratton · Tristan Edwards · Jialin Lu · Martin Ester · Yurii Vlasov · Siavash Golkar |
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Sat 4:45 p.m. - 5:15 p.m.
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Invited Talk: Sensory prediction error signals in the neocortex
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Blake Richards 🔗 |
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Sat 5:15 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
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Panel Session: A new hope for neuroscience
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Yoshua Bengio · Blake Richards · Timothy Lillicrap · Ila Fiete · David Sussillo · Doina Precup · Konrad Kording · Surya Ganguli 🔗 |