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2022
- Bernstein Conference - Sep. 13-16 - Info
- Paul Haider
gave the talk
"Latent Equilibrium: A unified learning theory for arbitrarily fast computation with arbitrarily slow neurons". For more details, read the related article.
And Katharina Wilmes presented the talk "Uncertainty-modulated prediction errors in cortical microcircuits".
- Manfred-Stärk-Symposium 2022 - Sep. 11-12
Special symposium on theoretical neuroscience and neuromorphic computation dedicated to our generous benefactor Manfred Stärk and his foundation.
- Nachet der Forschung - Sep. 10 - Info
We are very happy to have contributed to the fourth Nacht der Forschung among 750 other researchers allowing around 10,000 people to experience science.
- New Article! Approximating the ground states of quantum spin models.
"Variational learning of quantum ground states on spiking neuromorphic hardware".
See Publication - Blog post
- New lab member (July)
- Welcome to our new Research Assistant (Intership): Bennet Breier
- Lab Retreat in the Swiss Alps (June 7-10)
Four days of science, brain-storming, metaphysical debates, sports, cooking and other chocolate testing. It was a lot of FUN!!
- New Article: An alternative to classic deep learning datasets!
- New article in eLife: how natural-gradient descent enable efficient synaptic plasticity!
- DEEP MINDS Podcast (in German) - Info
- In the episode 7 of the DEEP MINDS Podcast: Laura Kriener
and Julian Göltz
talked about "AI Hardware of the Future: What is Neuromorphic Computing?"
DEEP MINDS, a MIXED.de Podcast, interviews well-versed people from various disciplines who deal with artificial intelligence and science.
MIXED.de is Germany's first and widest-reaching online magazine for mixed reality and the future of computers.
- From Cortical Microcircuits to Consciousness Symposium - Apr 11-13 - Info
- Nicolas Deperrois
presented the Poster "Learning cortical representations through perturbed and adversarial dreaming"
- New contribution to eLife: Learning across three different global brain states!
"Learning cortical representations through perturbed and adversarial dreaming".
See Publication - Press Release - More...
- From Neuroscience to Artificially Intelligent Systems (NAISys) - Apr 5-9 - Info
- Paul Haider
presented the Poster "Latent Equilibrium: A unified learning theory for arbitrarily fast computation with arbitrarily slow neurons"
- Now in PCB: How cortical oscillations shape spike-based probabilistic inference in the brain!
"Cortical oscillations support sampling-based computations in spiking neural networks.
See Publications
- NICE Conference - Mar 29-Apr 1 - Info
Three talks from Team NeuroTMA! Respectively, on March 29, 31 and April 1
Well done Andi for receiving the Best Early Researcher
Presentation Award from NEUROTECH!!
- "Latent Equilibrium: A unified learning theory for arbitrarily fast computation with arbitrarily slow neurons"
--> Paul Haider
- Happy to have contributed to shaping the course of neuroscience in the last HBP position paper! - Info
- COSYNE Conference & Workshop - Mar 17-22 - Info
- "Latent Equilibrium: A unified learning theory for arbitrarily fast computation with arbitrarily slow neurons"
: a poster presented by Paul Haider.
- Swiss Computational Neuroscience Retreat 2022 - Mar 2-4 - Info
- Jakob, Paul, Mihai and Walter had a great time in Crans-Montana among fellow computational neuroscientists and got to present some of our latest research:
Jakob talked about "Cortical representation learning & Bayes-optimal cue integration"
and Paul about "Latent Equilibrium: A unified learning theory for arbitrarily fast computation with arbitrarily slow neurons"
- SIAM Conference on Parallel Processing for Scientific Computing - Feb 23-26 - Info
- "Computing with Biologically Inspired Dynamics"
Talk presented by Andreas Baumbach.
- 6th HBP Student Conference on Interdisciplinary Brain Research - Feb. 22-25 - Info
- Two Poster presentations:
- Ben von Hünerbein "Towards fully embedded biologically inspired deep learning on neuromorphic hardware".
- Henrik Mettler "Evolving Neuronal Plasticity Rules using Cartesian Genetic Programming" - -> Recipient of the People’s Choice Best Abstract Award.
- New Preprint: a dataset of abstract paintings and nonfigurative art objects!
"DELAUNAY: a dataset of abstract art for psychophysical and machine learning research".
See Publications
- New Article in SciPost Physics: our first demonstration of representing entangled quantum states on BrainScaleS!
2021
- Our group leader speaks his mind!
- New Article in NeurIPS: Learning with slow neurons is not a problem anymore!
And this awesome work was selected for an oral presentation at the 35th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2021)!
Paul Haider 's Talk (Oral session 1) was scheduled on Tuesday, December 7 followed by a Poster presentation (session 3) on Wednesday, December 8 - Info
"Latent Equilibrium: A unified learning theory for arbitrarily fast computation with arbitrarily slow neurons".
See Publication - Press Release
- New lab member (December)
- Very Happy that Timo Gierlich
, previously one of our Master's students,
decided to pursue his work as a PhD student with us!
- Another news article on our Fast&Deep work in Singularity Hub!
Singularity Hub offers daily news coverage, feature articles, analysis, and insights on key breakthroughs and future trends in science and technology.
- MIXED.de wrote a news article on our latest Fast&Deep work!
This magazine is Germany's first and largest online magazine for mixed reality and the future of computers.
- New Article in eLife: Evolving to Learn!
"Evolving interpretable plasticity for spiking network".
See Publication - eLife Digest - Press Release
- Our NMI article featured on Tech Xplore!
The News website Tech Xplore covers the latest engineering, electronics and technology advances. Following the recent publication in Nature Machine Intelligence, Ingrid Fadelli of Tech Xplore reached out to us.
The resulting interview includes a short overview of our study.
- ACAIN 2021 - 1st International Advanced Course & Symposium on Artificial Intelligence & Neuroscience - Oct. 5-8 - Info
- Four oral presentations:
- Jakob Jordan "Learning Bayes-optimal dendritic opinion pooling".
- Julian Göltz and Laura Kriener "Fast and energy-efficient neuromorphic deep learning with first-spike times".
- Henrik Mettler "Evolving to Learn: Automating the search for interpretable, biologically plausible synaptic plasticity rules".
- Agnes Korcsak-Gorzo "Cortical oscillations support sampling-based computations in spiking neural network".
- New Preprint! Approximating the ground states of quantum spin models.
-
"Variational learning of quantum ground states on spiking neuromorphic hardware".
See Publications - Blog post
- Manfred-Stärk-Symposium 2021 - Sep. 26-28
Special symposium on theoretical neuroscience and neuromorphic computation dedicated to our generous benefactor Manfred Stärk and his foundation.
- Bernstein Conference - Sep. 22 - Info
- Nicolas Deperrois
presented the Poster
"Creative memory semantization through adversarial dreaming". For more details, read the related preprint on arXiv.
- Now in Nature Machine Intelligence!
"Fast and energy-efficient neuromorphic deep learning with first-spike times".
See Publication - free-access link - Press Release
- And read the News & Views written by Charlotte Frenkel that accompanies the article!
"Sparsity provides a competitive advantage"
- free-access link
- 2nd PhD and Postdoc Retreat of the Department of Physiology - Sep. 10 - Info
- Congrats to Henrik and Jakob for winning two of the Idorsia prizes for academic excellence for best presentations, respectively, for best Long talk - Early PhDs and Popular Vote!
- New Preprint! Learning across three different global brain states.
- MESEC - MEditerranean SEminar For Consciousness - Sep. 9 - Info
- As an invited speaker, Mihai Petrovici
talked about "Aspects of cortical computation".
- New lab member (September)
- Welcome to our new Master Student: Mohammed Sinan
- GECCO 2021 - The Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference
July 12 - Info
- Henrik Mettler
presented the Poster
"Evolving Neuronal Plasticity Rules using Cartesian Genetic Programming".
- Read our Success Story on using the Fenix Supercomputing Infrastructure!
- Our work was selected for the Frontiers Research Topic
"Neuromorphic Engineering Editors' Pick 2021" !
- Read the two selected articles on neuromorphic experiments with BrainScaleS systems:
-> First generation
Accelerated Physical Emulation of Bayesian Inference in Spiking Neural Networks
-> Second generation
Demonstrating Advantages of Neuromorphic Computation: A Pilot Study
- CNS*2021 - Computational Neuroscience Meeting - July 4 - Info
- Andreas Baumbach
presented the Featured Oral
"Cortical oscillations support sampling-based computations in spiking neural networks" -> Recording
(first talk of the video)
- NeuroFrance 2021 Satellite Workshop - May 18 - Info
- Julian Göltz
talked about "Fast and deep: energy-efficient neuromorphic learning with first-spike times" at the NeuroFrance 2021 satellite workshop "Neuroscience and Artificial Intelligence" -> Abstract
- New Preprint! Single neurons perform bayes-optimal cue integration.
- On Apr. 15, Elena Kreutzer
defending successfully her PhD thesis!
- NEUROTECH Education Programme: day 6 - Apr. 13 - Info
To answer this question, Laura Kriener presented her work on "Fast and deep: energy-efficient neuromorphic learning with first-spike times" -> Recording
- ERCIM News featured our work in their last issue!
We contributed three articles to the special issue "Brain-inspired Computing" of the European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics Magazine (ERCIM).
