š§ Our latest collaborative work, led by Xundong Wu and published in @cp-patterns.bsky.social, shows that adding dendritic nonlinearities to ANNs slashes communication costs. This is a key for the next generation of sustainable AI systems.
Full paper here: š www.cell.com/patterns/ful...
Artificial neural networks typically ignore the complex, active branches found in
biological neurons. This study challenges the assumption that these ādendritic nonlinearitiesā
primarily boost computa...