(UK only) #PhD studentships available at Royal Holloway, University of London Social Purpose Centre for Doctoral Training!

Get in touch with me if you're interested in working on developing bio-inspired efficient ML methods (#neuromorphic ML) to improve energy efficiency and make large AI models more widely accessible!

More info here: https://www.royalholloway.ac.uk/studying-here/fees-and-funding/research-degrees/sources-of-funding/university-studentships/

#newpaper in the next issue of "Neural Networks" !

"A robust event-driven approach to always-on object recognition"

by @antoine_grimaldi , Victor Boutin, Sio-Hoi Ieng, Ryad Benosman and myself - available #opensource at https://laurentperrinet.github.io/publication/grimaldi-24/

Main contributions:

• Builds an adaptive, back to back event-based #neuromorphic pattern recognition architecture, inspired by neuroscience and capable of always-on decision, that is, that the decision can be taken it can be needed - just like most living systems!

Low power #neuromorphic processors for #edge computing require low-power #asynchronous circuits. Areally amazing work by Zhe Su and an amazing team of colleagues is finally out, after years of development!

"An Ultra-Low Cost and Multicast-Enabled Asynchronous NoC for Neuromorphic Edge Computing"
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10609786

SPIKING NEURAL NETWORKS!

If you love them, join us at SNUFA24. Free, online workshop, Nov 5-6 (2-6pm CET). Usually ~700 participants.

Invited speakers: Chiara Bartolozzi, David Kappel, Anna Levina, Christian Machens

Posters + 8 contributed talks selected by participant vote.

Abstract submission is quick and easy (300 word max), and now open until the deadline Sept 27.

Registration is free, but mandatory.

Hope to see you there!

https://snufa.net/2024/

#neuromorphic computing is promising to drive artificial intelligence much further. Here's a benchmark of SNN libraries, so you know where to start
Join the open-source crowd on Discord discord.gg/C9bzWgNmqk

https://open-neuromorphic.org/blog/spiking-neural-network-framework-benchmarking/

" #Supercomputer that simulates entire #human #brain will switch on in #2024

A #neuromorphic supercomputer called #DeepSouth will be capable of 228 trillion synaptic operations per second, which is on par with the estimated number of operations in the human brain"

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2408015-supercomputer-that-simulates-entire-human-brain-will-switch-on-in-2024/

Curious about the zoo of #spike-based #learning mechanisms and interested in their #neuromorphic #analog circuit implementation?
Our survey on local synaptic plasticity models and circuits is finally officially published!
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/2634-4386/ad05da

Yesterday we finished a fantastic 3-day workshop with our friends from Ottawa. This was the 2023 annual meeting of the Max Planck - uOttawa Centre for Extreme and Quantum Photonics, at the @MPI_ScienceOfLight .

We heard about #topological #photonics, #metasurfaces, #entanglement, #ultrafast laser pulses, solar #lasers, #neuromorphic computing, #Artificialntelligence for optics and many more exciting topics at the cutting edge of photonics.

Dancing Magnons: Team @HZDR advances to next step toward #neuromorphic computing
Scientists of EU funded project #NIMFEIA demonstrate that their approach can be seamlessly integrated into conventional chip manufacturing, as they report:
https://www.hzdr.de/presse/magnonen

Image: HZDR / H.Schultheiß

Really interesting modelling work building short-term #plasticity into #neural #networks by Hector Garcia Rodriguez, Qinghai Guo and Timoleon Moraitis.

They show better performance in both supervised and RL tasks + the potential for energy savings on #neuromorphic chips!

https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.14048

I wish I had seen this paper before writing my review on brain mechanisms of domain-general cognition in ANNs as this would have made a great addition (https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.13651).

The videos of the talks from the Midnight Sun Workshop on Vector Symbolic Architectures and Hyperdimensional Computing are now online at:

https://sites.google.com/ltu.se/midnightvsa/abstracts?authuser=0

:TipHat: Bonjour and have a happy #JoinMastodonDay!

I didn't do a proper #introduction on this instance, so here it is :

I'm a #ComputationalNeuroscience researcher trying to understand how (if?) our #perception reflects reality.

My focus is mainly on #time to understand the role of #spikes, the universal currency in neural information processing...

we hope to introduce novel #neuromorphic tools based on #sparsecoding #prediction #homeostasis to be more :success: and less -hungry.

More than any other metaverse, I live in the #fediverse. I love art. #Tesla was a tad weird, but what a scientist!