Postdoc opening!
Come work with us on deep learning theory relevant to AI safety
Deadline: 7 Apr 2026
Details and application: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
Very excited by this year's Analytical Connectionism Summer School!
A dream lineup of speakers on the topic of language acquisition in minds and machines
Bursaries available to cover costs
Aug 17 – Aug 28, 2026 Gothenburg
Details: www.analytical-connectionism.net//school/2026/
Come chat about this @iclr-conf.bsky.social!
Friday 3:15 PM, Pavilion 4, Poster #4216
Andrew Saxe
We’ve got an exciting new thing to share! We have causal evidence (using TMR) that memory reactivation during sleep promotes abstract understanding of underlying structure, allowing transfer learning in a new domain with zero superficial feature overlap with the learned one.
A great entry into the proposals available for physiologically plausible gradient descent!
I think the way they use dendrite targeting inhibition in this model is particularly elegant.
Time to start testing these ideas folks!!!
#neuroscience 🧪 #NeuroAI
The First 1,000 Days (1kD) Project - Collecting and Analyzing an Ultra-Dense Naturalistic Dataset of Human Baby Development https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03.19.712982v1
New preprint! 🧠
How do RNNs learn abstract rules from sequences, independent of specific stimuli?
By Vezha Boboeva, with Alberto Pezzotta & George Dimitriadis
"From sequences to schemas: low-rank recurrent dynamics underlie abstract relational representations"
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...