Thrilled to start 2026 as faculty in Psych & CS
@ualberta.bsky.social + Amii.ca Fellow! 🥳 Recruiting students to develop theories of cognition in natural & artificial systems 🤖💭🧠. Find me at #NeurIPS2025 workshops (speaking coginterp.github.io/neurips2025 & organising @dataonbrainmind.bsky.social)
@ualberta.bsky.social + Amii.ca Fellow! 🥳 Recruiting students to develop theories of cognition in natural & artificial systems 🤖💭🧠. Find me at #NeurIPS2025 workshops (speaking coginterp.github.io/neurips2025 & organising @dataonbrainmind.bsky.social)
December 6, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Thrilled to start 2026 as faculty in Psych & CS
@ualberta.bsky.social + Amii.ca Fellow! 🥳 Recruiting students to develop theories of cognition in natural & artificial systems 🤖💭🧠. Find me at #NeurIPS2025 workshops (speaking coginterp.github.io/neurips2025 & organising @dataonbrainmind.bsky.social)
@ualberta.bsky.social + Amii.ca Fellow! 🥳 Recruiting students to develop theories of cognition in natural & artificial systems 🤖💭🧠. Find me at #NeurIPS2025 workshops (speaking coginterp.github.io/neurips2025 & organising @dataonbrainmind.bsky.social)
⚠️ Important for #NeurIPS2025 authors: remember that second-order optimization papers CANNOT be submitted under the CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license.
It requires "no derivatives."
It requires "no derivatives."
May 12, 2025 at 3:27 AM
⚠️ Important for #NeurIPS2025 authors: remember that second-order optimization papers CANNOT be submitted under the CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license.
It requires "no derivatives."
It requires "no derivatives."
Now accepted at #NeurIPS2025 :)
📣 New preprint 📣
**Differentiable Generalized Sliced Wasserstein Plans**
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L. Chapel
@rtavenar.bsky.social
We propose a Generalized Sliced Wasserstein method that provides an approximated transport plan and which admits a differentiable approximation.
arxiv.org/abs/2505.22049 1/5
**Differentiable Generalized Sliced Wasserstein Plans**
w/
L. Chapel
@rtavenar.bsky.social
We propose a Generalized Sliced Wasserstein method that provides an approximated transport plan and which admits a differentiable approximation.
arxiv.org/abs/2505.22049 1/5
September 29, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Now accepted at #NeurIPS2025 :)
Small idiosyncratic language errors in otherwise clear technical papers are now a plus; assurance that I'm not wasting my time trying to read GPT spam. #neurips2025
July 5, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Small idiosyncratic language errors in otherwise clear technical papers are now a plus; assurance that I'm not wasting my time trying to read GPT spam. #neurips2025
Well played, #NeurIPS2025 video recording software (SlideLive)
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November 3, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Well played, #NeurIPS2025 video recording software (SlideLive)
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looking forward to speaking at #NeurIPS2025 !
🚨 Excited to announce our #NeurIPS2025 Workshop: Data on the Brain & Mind
📣 Call for: Findings (4- or 8-page) + Tutorials tracks
🎙️ Speakers include @dyamins.bsky.social @lauragwilliams.bsky.social @cpehlevan.bsky.social
🌐 Learn more: data-brain-mind.github.io
📣 Call for: Findings (4- or 8-page) + Tutorials tracks
🎙️ Speakers include @dyamins.bsky.social @lauragwilliams.bsky.social @cpehlevan.bsky.social
🌐 Learn more: data-brain-mind.github.io
August 4, 2025 at 4:42 PM
looking forward to speaking at #NeurIPS2025 !
#NeurIPS2025 results are out.
Our single submission got accepted 🥳
Will be on arxiv soon. It's a new sequence model and memory for robotics.
Our single submission got accepted 🥳
Will be on arxiv soon. It's a new sequence model and memory for robotics.
September 18, 2025 at 1:28 PM
#NeurIPS2025 results are out.
Our single submission got accepted 🥳
Will be on arxiv soon. It's a new sequence model and memory for robotics.
Our single submission got accepted 🥳
Will be on arxiv soon. It's a new sequence model and memory for robotics.
This year #NeurIPS2025 @neuripsconf.bsky.social is set to be held in the US.
Given how hostile the current government is towards people from other countries, not sure I will be attending.
Given how hostile the current government is towards people from other countries, not sure I will be attending.
March 24, 2025 at 9:06 PM
This year #NeurIPS2025 @neuripsconf.bsky.social is set to be held in the US.
Given how hostile the current government is towards people from other countries, not sure I will be attending.
Given how hostile the current government is towards people from other countries, not sure I will be attending.
📍Excited to share that our paper was selected as a Spotlight at #NeurIPS2025!
arxiv.org/pdf/2410.03972
It started from a question I kept running into:
When do RNNs trained on the same task converge/diverge in their solutions?
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arxiv.org/pdf/2410.03972
It started from a question I kept running into:
When do RNNs trained on the same task converge/diverge in their solutions?
🧵⬇️
November 24, 2025 at 4:43 PM
📍Excited to share that our paper was selected as a Spotlight at #NeurIPS2025!
arxiv.org/pdf/2410.03972
It started from a question I kept running into:
When do RNNs trained on the same task converge/diverge in their solutions?
🧵⬇️
arxiv.org/pdf/2410.03972
It started from a question I kept running into:
When do RNNs trained on the same task converge/diverge in their solutions?
🧵⬇️
Excited to be selected as a Top Reviewer for NeurIPS 2025! 🎉
#neurips2025
#neurips2025
October 17, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Excited to be selected as a Top Reviewer for NeurIPS 2025! 🎉
#neurips2025
#neurips2025
🎉 "High-dimensional neuronal activity from low-dimensional latent dynamics: a solvable model" will be presented as an oral at #NeurIPS2025 🎉
Feeling very grateful that reviewers and chairs appreciated concise mathematical explanations, in this age of big models.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Feeling very grateful that reviewers and chairs appreciated concise mathematical explanations, in this age of big models.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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September 19, 2025 at 8:01 AM
🎉 "High-dimensional neuronal activity from low-dimensional latent dynamics: a solvable model" will be presented as an oral at #NeurIPS2025 🎉
Feeling very grateful that reviewers and chairs appreciated concise mathematical explanations, in this age of big models.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Feeling very grateful that reviewers and chairs appreciated concise mathematical explanations, in this age of big models.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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🥳 Super happy to have our work on multi-concept feature descriptions accepted at #NeurIPS2025!
Happy to share that our PRISM paper has been accepted at #NeurIPS2025 🎉
In this work, we introduce a multi-concept feature description framework that can identify and score polysemantic features.
📄 Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2506.15538
#NeurIPS #MechInterp #XAI
In this work, we introduce a multi-concept feature description framework that can identify and score polysemantic features.
📄 Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2506.15538
#NeurIPS #MechInterp #XAI
September 19, 2025 at 12:43 PM
🥳 Super happy to have our work on multi-concept feature descriptions accepted at #NeurIPS2025!
As #NeurIPS2025 submission deadline approaches, I’m expecting lots of posts of papers that be like…
May 14, 2025 at 10:58 PM
As #NeurIPS2025 submission deadline approaches, I’m expecting lots of posts of papers that be like…
🚨 Excited to announce our #NeurIPS2025 Workshop: Data on the Brain & Mind
📣 Call for: Findings (4- or 8-page) + Tutorials tracks
🎙️ Speakers include @dyamins.bsky.social @lauragwilliams.bsky.social @cpehlevan.bsky.social
🌐 Learn more: data-brain-mind.github.io
📣 Call for: Findings (4- or 8-page) + Tutorials tracks
🎙️ Speakers include @dyamins.bsky.social @lauragwilliams.bsky.social @cpehlevan.bsky.social
🌐 Learn more: data-brain-mind.github.io
August 4, 2025 at 3:28 PM
🚨 Excited to announce our #NeurIPS2025 Workshop: Data on the Brain & Mind
📣 Call for: Findings (4- or 8-page) + Tutorials tracks
🎙️ Speakers include @dyamins.bsky.social @lauragwilliams.bsky.social @cpehlevan.bsky.social
🌐 Learn more: data-brain-mind.github.io
📣 Call for: Findings (4- or 8-page) + Tutorials tracks
🎙️ Speakers include @dyamins.bsky.social @lauragwilliams.bsky.social @cpehlevan.bsky.social
🌐 Learn more: data-brain-mind.github.io
The number of people arguing, following the #NeurIPS2025 case, that a bit of systematically bad scholarship and borderline academic misconduct is OK because doing things the right way is tedious and time-consuming is concerning.
Yes, doing things well might be boring. But doing them badly is... bad
Yes, doing things well might be boring. But doing them badly is... bad
January 24, 2026 at 10:25 PM
The number of people arguing, following the #NeurIPS2025 case, that a bit of systematically bad scholarship and borderline academic misconduct is OK because doing things the right way is tedious and time-consuming is concerning.
Yes, doing things well might be boring. But doing them badly is... bad
Yes, doing things well might be boring. But doing them badly is... bad
Excited to announce the first workshop on CogInterp: Interpreting Cognition in Deep Learning Models @ NeurIPS 2025! 📣
How can we interpret the algorithms and representations underlying complex behavior in deep learning models?
🌐 coginterp.github.io/neurips2025/
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How can we interpret the algorithms and representations underlying complex behavior in deep learning models?
🌐 coginterp.github.io/neurips2025/
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Home
First Workshop on Interpreting Cognition in Deep Learning Models (NeurIPS 2025)
coginterp.github.io
July 16, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Excited to announce the first workshop on CogInterp: Interpreting Cognition in Deep Learning Models @ NeurIPS 2025! 📣
How can we interpret the algorithms and representations underlying complex behavior in deep learning models?
🌐 coginterp.github.io/neurips2025/
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How can we interpret the algorithms and representations underlying complex behavior in deep learning models?
🌐 coginterp.github.io/neurips2025/
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Attending #Neurips2025? Get your personalized Scholar Inbox conference program now to easily navigate the poster sessions and find what you are looking for:
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December 2, 2025 at 6:37 AM
Attending #Neurips2025? Get your personalized Scholar Inbox conference program now to easily navigate the poster sessions and find what you are looking for:
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Excited to announce the Foundation Models for the Brain and Body workshop at #NeurIPS2025! 🧠📈 🧪
We invite short papers or interactive demos on AI for neural, physiological or behavioral data.
Submit by Aug 22 👉 brainbodyfm-workshop.github.io
We invite short papers or interactive demos on AI for neural, physiological or behavioral data.
Submit by Aug 22 👉 brainbodyfm-workshop.github.io
July 11, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Excited to announce the Foundation Models for the Brain and Body workshop at #NeurIPS2025! 🧠📈 🧪
We invite short papers or interactive demos on AI for neural, physiological or behavioral data.
Submit by Aug 22 👉 brainbodyfm-workshop.github.io
We invite short papers or interactive demos on AI for neural, physiological or behavioral data.
Submit by Aug 22 👉 brainbodyfm-workshop.github.io
Excited to share that POSSM has been accepted to #NeurIPS2025! See you in San Diego 🏖️
New preprint! 🧠🤖
How do we build neural decoders that are:
⚡️ fast enough for real-time use
🎯 accurate across diverse tasks
🌍 generalizable to new sessions, subjects, and even species?
We present POSSM, a hybrid SSM architecture that optimizes for all three of these axes!
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How do we build neural decoders that are:
⚡️ fast enough for real-time use
🎯 accurate across diverse tasks
🌍 generalizable to new sessions, subjects, and even species?
We present POSSM, a hybrid SSM architecture that optimizes for all three of these axes!
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September 20, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Excited to share that POSSM has been accepted to #NeurIPS2025! See you in San Diego 🏖️
Our #NeurIPS2025 paper shows that even comparable monolingual tokenizers have different compression rates across languages. But by getting rid of whitespace tokenization and using a custom vocab size for each language, we can reduce token premiums. Preprint out now!
October 28, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Our #NeurIPS2025 paper shows that even comparable monolingual tokenizers have different compression rates across languages. But by getting rid of whitespace tokenization and using a custom vocab size for each language, we can reduce token premiums. Preprint out now!
Want to generate point clouds? Our (w/ Ernst Röell) #NeurIPS2025 paper shows a topology-driven method that is fast, simple, and high-quality. 🔥
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October 29, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Want to generate point clouds? Our (w/ Ernst Röell) #NeurIPS2025 paper shows a topology-driven method that is fast, simple, and high-quality. 🔥
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Now accepted to #NeurIPS2025, congrats to @fareselkhoury.bsky.social for his first ML paper!
📣 New preprint 📣
Learning Theory for Kernel Bilevel Optimization
w/ @fareselkhoury.bsky.social E. Pauwels @michael-arbel.bsky.social
We provide generalization error bounds for bilevel optimization problems where the inner objective is minimized over a RKHS.
arxiv.org/abs/2502.08457
Learning Theory for Kernel Bilevel Optimization
w/ @fareselkhoury.bsky.social E. Pauwels @michael-arbel.bsky.social
We provide generalization error bounds for bilevel optimization problems where the inner objective is minimized over a RKHS.
arxiv.org/abs/2502.08457
October 2, 2025 at 7:43 AM
Now accepted to #NeurIPS2025, congrats to @fareselkhoury.bsky.social for his first ML paper!
Connectome suggests brain’s synaptic weights follow heavy-tailed distributions, yet most analyses of RNNs assume Gaussian connectivity.
🧵⬇️ Our @alleninstitute.org #NeurIPS2025 paper shows heavy-tailed weights can strongly affect dynamics, trade off robustness + attractor dimension.
🧵⬇️ Our @alleninstitute.org #NeurIPS2025 paper shows heavy-tailed weights can strongly affect dynamics, trade off robustness + attractor dimension.
October 30, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Connectome suggests brain’s synaptic weights follow heavy-tailed distributions, yet most analyses of RNNs assume Gaussian connectivity.
🧵⬇️ Our @alleninstitute.org #NeurIPS2025 paper shows heavy-tailed weights can strongly affect dynamics, trade off robustness + attractor dimension.
🧵⬇️ Our @alleninstitute.org #NeurIPS2025 paper shows heavy-tailed weights can strongly affect dynamics, trade off robustness + attractor dimension.
Peer review? Going great. #NeurIPS2025
July 26, 2025 at 7:09 AM
Peer review? Going great. #NeurIPS2025
September 18, 2025 at 5:59 PM