From Neuroscience to Artificially Intelligent Systems
September 28 - October 2, 2024

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Program information: An electronic version of the program abstract book will be sent three working days prior to the first day of the meeting, and hard copies will be available for collection upon your arrival at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. First night and keynote speakers are informed of their session date and time, otherwise program information is only available upon release of the electronic version of the abstract book. The reason we do this is to try and maximize interactions by encouraging participants to stay for the duration of the meeting.

Please check your email for talk length, poster instructions, and how to have your poster printed at CSHL for collection upon arrival. 

Abstract Status

Presenting Author

Abstract Title

Talk/Poster

Abdelhedi, Hamza

Temporal dynamics of face recognition—Insights from combining MEG and Artificial Neural Networks

poster

Alemi, Alireza

Lyapunov-based learning enables efficient generalization in spike-coding networks

poster

Amelchenko, Evgeny

Conflictome—Understanding the circuitry of social conflict via large-scale modeling of behavioral and neural data

poster

Aquino, Tomas

Top-down language signaling dynamically mediates flexible behavior in human single neurons

poster

Bell, David G

Discovering plasticity rules that organize and maintain neural circuits

poster

Benjamin, Ari

Interpreting networks as mixtures of experts yields an update preserving Dale’s law

poster

Bennett, Max

Why NeuroAI needs evolutionary neuroscience

talk

Bhattasali, Nikhil

Neural circuit architectural priors for quadruped locomotion

talk

Biton, Dionessa

Characterizing the intrinsic dimension of cryptochrome protein using autoencoders

poster

Brinkman, Braden

Sensory encoding in the auditory system

poster

Chandra, Sarthak

A biologically plausible mechanism for the self-organization of modularity, hierarchy, and mirror reversals of cortical sensory processing pathways

poster

Chen, Chenggang

Neural embedding ranks—Aligning 3D latent dynamics with movement for longitudinal decoding

poster

Chen, Jianhui

Biologically plausible training of deep neural networks using a top-down credit assignment network

talk

Chen, Sixuan

RTify—Aligning deep neural networks with human behavioral decisions

poster

Chen, Yusi

Unveiling the latent dynamics in social cognition with multi-agent inverse reinforcement learning

talk

Cheng, Yu-Ang

Divisive normalization plasticity—A key mechanism in perceptual learning for mitigating perceptual costs

poster

Cheon, Jeonghwan

Random noise enables reliable learning without weight transport

poster

Chindemi, Giuseppe

Unveiling the social brain—Self-supervised transformers align with VTA activity patterns

poster

Chou, Chi-Ning

Task-relevant geometry explains coding efficiency in neural representations

poster

Chou, Ya-Hui

The stochastic wiring of olfactory local interneurons

poster

Choudhary, Shubham

Implicit generative models using kernel similarity matching

poster

Chua, Raymond

Unraveling successor features—A simple method for robust learning from pixels, and embracing continual learning

poster

Cleland, Thomas

Brain-inspired neuromorphic algorithm for rapid odor learning and recognition in the wild

poster

Codol, Olivier

Biologically plausible neural dynamics for reaching emerge in reinforcement—not supervised—learning

poster

Cone, Ian

Credit assignment in hippocampus via behavioral timescale plasticity

poster

Corbo, Julien

Comparing information usage in biological and artificial systems performing orientation discrimination

poster

Daruwalla, Kyle

Generative modeling of trained networks as an analogy for neuronal development

poster

Dimitrova, Nevenka

Neurally inspired hybrid architecture for spatial biology

poster

Donati, Elisa

Neuromorphic hardware in healthcare

talk

Dumitras, Tudor A

Slowdown—A new tool for understanding large language models

talk

Effenberger, Felix

The functional role of oscillatory dynamics in neocortical circuits—A computational perspective

poster

Eschbach, Claire

Drosophila larva as a biological model for the study of reinforcement learning

poster

Fan, Xinhao

Contribute to balance, wire in accordance—Emergence of backpropagation from a simple, bio-plausible neuroplasticity rule

poster

Fang, Ruogu

Aversive association and generalization in brain-inspired deep neural network

poster

Farrell, Kathryn

Dynamical similarity analysis of primate cortical networks under targeted optogenetic stimulation

poster

Feather, Jenelle

Spectral theory of neural alignment and prediction

poster

Feitosa Tome, Douglas

Distributed engrams underlie flexible and versatile neural representations

poster

Ferreira Castro, André

Invariant synaptic density normalizes neuronal responses across species

poster

Friedman, Yoni

Tracking under extreme uncertainty with probabilistic programs

poster

Fyshe, Alona

What's the opposite of a face?  Finding shared decodable concepts and their negations in the brain

talk

Galloni, Alessandro

Biologically-plausible deep learning in recurrent E/I networks with dendritic gating of plasticity

poster

Handebagh, Vivek S

Harnessing and modulating chaos to sample from neural generative models

poster

Hanson, Timothy L

Efficient constraint satisfaction with reinforcement learning

talk

Harvey, Sarah

Duality of bures and shape distances with implications for comparing neural representations

poster

Henha Eyono, Roy

Inhibition-mediated normalization provides learned robustness in neural networks

poster

Hermundstad, Ann

Inductive biases for rapid learning

talk

Hiratani, Naoki

Optimal task-order for continual learning of multiple tasks

poster

Histed, Mark H

Active filtering of sequences of neural activity by recurrent circuits of sensory cortex

talk

Hou, Helen

A 3D whole-face movement analysis system to uncover underlying physiology in mice

poster

Hu, Yujia

Quantifying social roles in multi-animal videos using subject-aware deep-learning

poster

Huang, Ann

Stochastic wiring of cell types enhances fitness by generating phenotypic variability

talk

Hurtado, Jose R

An encoding model of place cells using distributed inputs, random connections, and inhibition reproduces diverse features of hippocampal activity

poster

Indiveri, Giacomo

Bridging the design gap—From principles of neural design to neuromorphic intelligence

talk

Jain, Shailee

Deep neural networks reveal context-sensitive speech encoding in single neurons of human cortex

talk

Janik, Romuald A

Aspects of human memory and large language models

poster

Jesusanmi, Oluwaseyi

Investigating visual navigation using spiking neural network, embodied robotics and simulations

poster

Jiang, Chen

Brain Bandit—A biologically grounded neural network for efficient control of exploration

poster

Johnsen, Kyle A

A foundation for causal characterization of latent neural dynamics with limited observational and interventional capacity

poster

Karuvally, Arjun

A unified framework for RNN memory—The role of traveling waves

talk

Keller, T. Anderson

Traveling waves in state space models

talk

Kerstjens, Stan

Growing complex intelligent systems with simple recursive rules

talk

Kim, Anmo

FlyVisNet—An insect vision-inspired artificial neural network for the control of a  nano drone

talk

Kirsanov, Artem

Probing task-dependent representational geometry in language models via manifold capacity

talk

Koulakov, Alexei

Deepnose—An equivariant convolutional neural network predictive of human olfactory percepts

talk

LaFosse, Paul K

Single-cell optogenetics reveals attenuation-by-suppression in visual cortical neurons

poster

Lajoie, Guillaume

Beyond parameters—Linking parametric and context-based learning in neural networks

talk

Lake, Brenden

Learning through the eyes and ears of a child

talk

Lane, Connor

Topographic mixtures of experts

poster

Le Thi Nguyet, Hang

Understanding feature learning in neural networks with manifold capacity and effective geometry

poster

Li, Chenyi

A framework of mapping visual stimulus to neural responses via discrete latent representation

poster

Li, Chenyi

Learning to reinforcement learn via Transformer

poster

Li, Xin

Manifold learning via memory and context

poster

Li, Yichen

Fully-Learnable Assembly Calculus (FLAC)—Orchestrating discrete memory operations with reinforcement learning and a Hebbian neural workspace

talk

Linsley, Drew A

Building better models of biological vision by searching for the principles that shape visual system development

poster

Lipshutz, David

Shaping the distribution of neural population responses with interneurons in a recurrent circuit model

poster

Liu, Qiang

Toward complete biophysical mapping and modeling of the C. elegans nervous system

poster

Liu, Tingkai

Token-level curriculum learning for massively multi-task large language modeling

poster

Llera Montero, Milton

Mechanistic models of growth and development and their integration into AI systems

poster

Mansingh, Siddharth

Scaling energy-based models to complex datasets

poster

McConachie, Grant

Improved odor-receptor interaction predictions via self-supervised learning

poster

Medepalli, Saaketh

Interpreting the role of brain rhythms during language comprehension using large language models

poster

Mitchell, Kevin

The Genomic Code—how the wiring of neural systems is encoded in the genome

talk

Mohedano, Raúl

Artificial neural networks whose neurons emulate backpropagating action potentials and input-dependent dendritic nonlinearities are more robust, more expressive, learn faster and need less training data

poster

Moore, Jasmine

Geometry of a neurodegenerating visual system—An in silico study

poster

Morrill, Todd

Learnable delays in spiking neural networks

poster

Muzellec, Sabine

Tracking objects that change in appearance with phase synchrony

poster

Nagel, Katherine I

Understanding the structure of neural circuits underlying odor-guided navigation

poster

Navlakha, Saket

A neural algorithm for computing bipartite matchings

poster

Nguyen, Bach V

Evaluating topological fitness of human brain functional sub-circuits in echo state networks

poster

Nowak, Maciej A

Non-orthogonal eigenvectors, fluctuation-dissipation relations and entropy production in neural matrix models

poster

Pal, Asit

Multi-stage hierarchical cortical recurrent circuit implementing normalization

poster

Pan, Yijie

Separating representations for changing tasks—A spiking neuron network inspired by mini brains

poster

Pao, Gerald

Experimentally testable mappings of brain activity manifolds to behavior

poster

Patel, Devdhar

Developing muscle memory using temporally asymmetric actor-critic

poster

Patel, Devdhar

Optimizing attention and cognitive costs with multi-policy reinforcement learning

talk

Patel, Devdhar

Robust control in partially observable environments using self-information and asymmetric actor-critic

poster

Pehle, Christian

A computer architecture for temporally sparse training and inference

poster

Pehle, Christian

Smoothed spike transitions in spiking neural networks

poster

Pogodin, Roman

Learning with non-Euclidean synaptic plasticity

poster

Pospelov, Nikita

Fast gradient-free activation maximization for neurons in spiking neural networks

poster

Qin, Shanshan

The neuron as a rectified dynamical unit (ReDU)

poster

Rajulapati, Lokesh K

What makes a representation interpretable?

poster

Ran, Xuming

Improving continual learning of pre-trained model via neural silent synapses inspired adaptive connection

poster

Ran, Xuming

Memory stability and plasticity via dynamic codebooks for replay-free continual learning in pre-trained models

poster

Rawat, Shivang

Unconditional stability of a recurrent neural circuit implementing divisive normalization

poster

Reyhanian, Elham

Neuroscience of cerebral palsy perceived by AI-driven insights and innovations—A literature review

poster

Robinson, Brian S

Beyond weight transport with optimized generalized feedback networks

poster

Rondoni, Nicholas A

Predicting neuronal firing from calcium imaging using a control theoretic approach

poster

Sarkar, Aakash

A neural circuit model of working memory representations using laplace neural manifolds

poster

Settur, Anantha Sai Jithamanyu

Principles of neuro evolution

poster

Shoji, Lucas

All learning is (natural) gradient descent

poster

Shuvaev, Sergey

Encoding innate ability through a genomic bottleneck

poster

Slatton, Will

Neural population geometry and optimal coding of tasks with shared latent structure

poster

Song, Deying

Neuronal heterogeneity of normalization in a circuit model

poster

Stern, Merav

A reservoir of timescales emerges in recurrent circuits with heterogeneous neural assemblies

talk

Stringer, Carsen

Towards a simplified model of primary visual cortex

talk

Tagmazian, Arina

Data-driven subgrouping of individuals on Alzheimer’s continuum based on amyloid-β brain imaging

poster

Tolooshams, Bahareh

A feedback mechanism in deep generative networks to remove degradation from visual stimuli

talk

Toosi, Tahereh

Generative inference in object recognition models—A unifying framework for discriminative and generative computations in vision

talk

Tran, Khue

Weight transfer in the reinforcement learning model of songbird learning

poster

Tripp, Bryan P

Spatial organization of multisensory convergence in mouse isocortex

poster

Tsodyks, Misha

AI-assisted study of human memory for meaningful narratives

poster

Vafaii, Hadi

Poisson VAEs learn natural image statistics

poster

Virgili, Samuele

A data-driven approach to study time adaptation in the visual system

poster

Vogelstein, Joshua

Prospective learning—Learning for a dynamic future

talk

Wang, Binxu

Dynamic alignment of ventral stream neural tuning and object manifold—Implications for feedback modulation

talk

Wang, Qingyang

From nanoscale connectomes to functional complexity

poster

Wang, Yanchen

Decoding visual experience and mapping semantics through whole-brain analysis

poster

Williams, Alex H

Quantifying decodable information versus representational geometry in neural networks

talk

Wiltschko, Alexander B.

A metabolic theory of scent

talk

Wojcik, Michal J

Learning dynamics in the PFC can be explained by an external controller

poster

Xu, Mingkun

Eliminating catastrophic forgetting in spiking neural networks through neuromodulated homeostasis adaptivity

poster

Xu, Mingkun

Orchestrating spiking dynamics with dendritic activation functionality for bolstering expressivity and learning efficiency

poster

Xu, Yunlong

Applying Abstract rules inspired by cognitive neuroscience for semi-supervised learning on human standard intelligence tests

poster

Yamins, Daniel

Climbing the ladder of causation toward mid-level vision

talk

Yin, Yijie

Connectome interpreter—A toolkit

poster

Yu, Yiyi

Visual information is broadcast among cortical areas in discrete channels

poster

Zeisler, Zachary R

Neural dynamics supporting affective reward learning

poster

Zhang, Charles

STAC-MJX—GPU-accelerated skeletal model registration from motion capture data for embodied simulation applications

poster

Zhang, Yizi

Towards a "universal translator" for neural dynamics at single-cell, single-spike resolution

poster