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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!

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"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!

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"Cortical oscillations support sampling-based computations in spiking neural networks" - Publication

Swiss Computational Neuroscience Retreat 2022 - Mar. 2-4 - Info
Two Talks:

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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:

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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

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Our group leader speaks his mind!

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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)!

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"Latent Equilibrium: A unified learning theory for arbitrarily fast computation with arbitrarily slow neurons" - Publication - Press Release

New Article in eLife: Evolving to Learn!

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"Evolving interpretable plasticity for spiking network" - Publication -
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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

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Special symposium on theoretical neuroscience and neuromorphic computation dedicated to our generous benefactor Manfred Stärk and his foundation.

Bernstein Conference - Sep. 13 - 16 - Info

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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

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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!

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"Memory semantization through perturbed and adversarial dreaming" - See Publications

GECCO 2021 - The Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference July 12 - Info

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Henrik Mettler presented the Poster
"Evolving Neuronal Plasticity Rules using Cartesian Genetic Programming"

Read our Succes Story on using the Fenix Supercomputing Infrastructure!

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"HPC Simulations Support Fast and Energy Efficient Deep Neuromorphic Learning" - See Article

CNS*2021 - Computational Neuroscience Meeting - July 4 - Info

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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!
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Mila Neural-AI Reading Group - May 21 - Info

New Preprint! Single neurons perform bayes-optimal cue integration.

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"Learning Bayes-optimal dendritic opinion pooling" -
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On Apr. 15, Elena Kreutzer defending successfully her PhD thesis!

NEUROTECH Education Programme: day 6 - Apr. 13 - Info

New contribution to an Article! How predictive plasticity encodes olfactory learning in fruit flies.

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"Predictive olfactory learning in Drosophila" - See Publications


New Preprint! How cortical oscillations shape spike-based probabilistic inference in the brain.

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"Cortical oscillations implement a backbone for sampling-based computation in spiking neural networks" - See Publications