News Archive
2022
New Preprint: (PAL), a bio-plausible method to learn efficient feedback weights!
"Learning efficient backprojections across cortical hierarchies in real time" - See Publication
Our group leader is the newly elected member of the EBRAINS STC!
The Science and Technology Committeeof the EBRAINS Research Infrastructurewill provide guidance and advice to the EBRAINS Board of Directors and Management Board on matters related to brain science, technology, and digital research tools and services.
Workshop: Energetics of computation in artificial & natural networks - Dec. 15/16 - Info
- Julian Göltzwas invited to give the talk "From biology to silicon substrates: neural computation with physics".
Parisian Tour - Nov. 21-23
- Mihaiwas invited to give the talk "Computing With Physics: Intelligence In Carbon And Silicon" in Paris-Saclay University and the University of Paris to foster new collaborations.
Bernstein Conference - Sep. 13-16 - Info
Two talks
- Paul Haider presented "Latent Equilibrium: A unified learning theory for arbitrarily fast computation with arbitrarily slow neurons".For more details, read the related article.
- Katharina Wilmes presented "Uncertainty-modulated prediction errors in cortical microcircuits".
And a poster
EPFL: NeuroSpin school - Aug. 22-26 - Info
Mihaiwas invited to give the lecture "Introduction and state-of-the-art technologies used for neuromorphic computing".
Manfred-Stärk-Symposium 2022 - Lavaux - Sep. 11-12
Special symposium on theoretical neuroscience and neuromorphic computation dedicated to our generous benefactor Manfred Stärk and his foundation.
Nacht der Forschung 2022 - Info
We were delighted to be among the 750 researchers from the University of Bern who presented their research to tens of thousands of people.
Visitors to our stand got an insight into learning in neural networks and neuromorphic engineering by experiencing the dynamics of real biological neurons using our in-house Lu.ielectronic neuron circuits. The public could also compete against an AI by playing the puzzle game Tic Tac Toe, also known as Noughts and Crosses.
Cellular and Molecular Neurobiology of Mental disease 2022 Meeting - Aug. 24-26
- Jakob Jordanwas invited to give the talk "Dendritic integration as Bayes-optimal opinion pooling".
New Article in iScience! Approximating the ground states of quantum spin models.
"Variational learning of quantum ground states on spiking neuromorphic hardware".
See Publication- Blog post
CNS*2022 - Computational Neuroscience Meeting - July 16-20 - Info
Paul Haidergave two presentations: one at the main conference and the other at the workshop "Bio-inspired active AI workshop:"
New lab member (July)
Welcome to our new Research Assistant (Intership) Bennet Breier!
NEST Conference - June 23-24 - Info
Laura Krienerand Julian Göltzgave the talk:
Lab Retreat in Kandersteg - 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 in NICE Proceedings: An alternative to classic deep learning datasets!
"The Yin-Yang dataset". See Publication
New article in eLife: how natural-gradient descent enable efficient synaptic plasticity!
"Natural-gradient learning for spiking neurons".
See Publication
DEEP MINDS Podcast (in German) - Info
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"
Publication- More on GANs
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."
NICE Conference - Mar 29-Apr 1 - Info
Three talks from Team NeuroTMA! Respectively, on March 29, 31 and April 1
Andreas Baumbach presented "Quantum many-body states: A novel neuromorphic application"and received the Best Early Researcher Presentation Award from NEUROTECH!!
Now in PCB: How cortical oscillations shape spike-based probabilistic inference in the brain!
"Cortical oscillations support sampling-based computations in spiking neural networks" - Publication
COSYNE Conference & Workshop - Mar 17-22 - Info
Happy to have contributed to shaping the vision of neuroscience in a HBP position paper! - Info
Swiss Computational Neuroscience Retreat 2022 - Mar. 2-4 - Info
Two Talks:
Jakob Jordan"Cortical representation learning & Bayes-optimal cue integration"
Paul Haider"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
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 Publication
New Article in SciPost Physics: our first demonstration of representing entangled quantum states on BrainScaleS!
"Spiking neuromorphic chip learns entangled quantum states" - See Publication