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2022
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."
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
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"
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
2021
Our group leader speaks his mind!
Read the Interview
that Mihai A. Petrovici
gave on Science and Politics to Uniaktuell - the online magazine of the University of Bern.
New Article in NeurIPS: Learning with slow neurons is not a problem anymore! - Info
And the awesome work of Paul Haider
was selected for oral
presentation at the 35th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2021)!
"Latent Equilibrium: A unified learning theory for arbitrarily fast computation with arbitrarily slow neurons" - Publication - Press Release
New Article in eLife: Evolving to Learn!
"Evolving interpretable plasticity for spiking network" - Publication
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eLife Digest
- Press Release
ACAIN 2021 - 1st International Advanced Course & Symposium on Artificial Intelligence & Neuroscience - Oct. 5-8 - Info
Five presentations:
- Jakob Jordan "Learning Bayes-optimal dendritic opinion pooling."
- 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."
- Julian Göltz and Laura Kriener "Fast and energy-efficient neuromorphic deep learning with first-spike times."
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. 13 - 16 - Info
Nicolas Deperrois
presented the Poster
"Creative memory semantization through adversarial dreaming."
For more details, read the related preprint on arXiv.
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!
"Memory semantization through perturbed and adversarial dreaming" - See Publications
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 Succes Story on using the Fenix Supercomputing Infrastructure!
"HPC Simulations Support Fast and Energy Efficient Deep Neuromorphic Learning" - See Article
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)
New lab members (June)
We are thrilled to have Ben von Hünerbein
continue as a PhD student!
Mila Neural-AI Reading Group - May 21 - Info
- Nicolas Deperrois presented his work on "Creative memory semantization through adversarial dreaming"
NeuroFrance 2021 - May 18-21 - Info
New Preprint! Single neurons perform bayes-optimal cue integration.
"Learning Bayes-optimal dendritic opinion pooling" -
See Publications
On Apr. 15, Elena Kreutzer
defending successfully her PhD thesis!
NEUROTECH Education Programme: day 6 - Apr. 13 - Info
Laura Kriener
presented her work on
"Fast and deep: energy-efficient neuromorphic learning with first-spike times."
New contribution to an Article! How predictive plasticity encodes olfactory learning in fruit flies.
"Predictive olfactory learning in Drosophila" - See Publications
New Preprint! How cortical oscillations shape spike-based probabilistic inference in the brain.
"Cortical oscillations implement a backbone for sampling-based computation in spiking neural networks" - See Publications