Excited to share our new work on dynamics in compositional RL with curricula accepted ICML Conference 2024! 📄 [arxiv.org/abs/2402.18361] 👯 Team = me, Stefano Sarao Mannelli - Hiring! Andrew Saxe TL;DR We propose a simple compositional RL model amenable to exact learning dynamics analysis which can account

👋 Attending #ICML2024 in 🇦🇹 next week? Don't forget to check out work involving our researchers!

It’s today ICML Conference 25.07 Thursday 11.30-13.00 #1407 Come and chat! w/Stefano Sarao Mannelli - Hiring! Andrew Saxe

Come join our team in London as a research assistant! Rodent decision making, miniscopes and hippocampus! Ideal for a recent graduate wanting lab experience before PhD. UCL is an amazing place to do neuroscience - come and find out! ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/se…

Only 3 days left to apply to join my group Chalmers University of Technology as a PhD student: deadline July 31st. Work with me to uncover the mechanisms behind bias generation and amplification in ML! 🔗 chalmers.se/en/about-chalm…

Yesterday at #CoLLAs2024, the talented Jin Lee and I gave a tutorial on 'Advances in Continual Learning Theory'. It's so exciting to see the growing interest in continual learning! Jin Hwa Lee CoLLAs 2025

Super excited to give a talk on this project at CogCompNeuro #CCN2024 on Friday morning. Come chat all things sleep, regularisation and insight at my poster C165 afterwards :)

Today is my first time #CCN2024. I'm very excited and mildly jetlagged! I'll be presenting two works: 📃B51 On compositional generalisation and curriculum learning; 📃C93 A framework for modelling critical learning. Looking forward to some feedback and follow-up ideas! 👇

Why Do Animals Need Shaping? A Theory of Task Composition and Curriculum Learning (B51) 🔗 2024.ccneuro.org/poster/?id=191 📄arxiv.org/abs/2402.18361 👯‍♂️ Jin Hwa Lee, me, Andrew Saxe 📅 Thu 8 Aug 1:30 p.m.

A Minimal and Flexible Model for Investigating Critical Learning Periods (C96) 🔗 2024.ccneuro.org/poster/?id=182 👯‍♂️ Sebastian Lee, me, Andrew Saxe 📅 Fri 9 Aug 11:15 a.m.

Come to poster C146 CogCompNeuro at 11:15-1:15 today for some evidence showing how learning shapes cognitive control allocation! 2024.ccneuro.org/poster/?id=136

We started today the new edition of Analytical Connectionism! This week Linda Smith, Cengiz Pehlevan and Jonathan Cohen will give us in-depth lectures on topics ranging from development to analytical methods for NNs! Happy days! 🎈🎈🎈

Really excited to share that I'm hiring for a Research Scientist position in our team! If you're interested in the kind of cognitively-oriented work we've been doing on learning & generalization, data properties, representations, LMs, or agents, please check it out!

Our paper on the effect of stimulus temporal regularity on visual decisions is out in its final form: nature.com/articles/s4146… Thanks to reviewers whose comments made it a better paper! Matthias Fritsche Antara Majumdar 🧠👩🏽‍🔬💫 Samuel Liebana Lauren Strickland Rafal Bogacz.

Less than 10 days left to apply for the first postdoc position in my lab! 🌱 If you're interested in understanding ML at a fundamental level using statistical physics and probability tools, here is the link 🔗chalmers.se/en/about-chalm… Deadline for applications: August 31st

What an amazing crowd of young researchers at the Analytical Connectionism Summer School hackathon! The past two weeks have been so much fun. 🙌 SueYeon Chung Stefano Sarao Mannelli Andrew Saxe #ACSS2024

To ask how similar the brain is to a neural network we need a similarity metric. In a new paper I asked how much the metric matters to downstream conclusions, and, upshot, it matters a great deal. biorxiv.org/content/10.110… (1/7)

What is the nature of sensory prediction error signals in the neocortex? Our research published in nature reveals that these error signals are amplified responses to unexpected inputs, mediated by a cooperative thalamocortical circuit mechanism! 1/4 nature.com/articles/s4158…