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The cortical responses to language are spatially organized. To predict such findings, we built a topographic language model - TopoLM - by introducing a smoothness constraint to its training process. More details in Neil Rathi's thread below.

Interested in the future of #NeuroAI? Join us at the NIH BRAIN Initiative workshop on Nov 12-13 to explore the intersection of neuroscience and AI. Learn more and register now for virtual attendance: n4solutionsllc.com/brainneuroai/ #BRAINInitiative #studyBRAIN

Applications now open for the Summer@EPFL program summer.epfl.ch -- 3-month fellowship for Bachelor/Master students to immerse yourself in research

🚨 New Paper!! How can we train LLMs using 100M words? In our babyLM paper, we introduce a new self-synthesis training recipe to tackle this question! 🍼💻 This was a fun project co-led by me, Yingtian Tang, Abdulkadir Gokce, w/ Hannes Mehrer & Martin Schrimpf 🧵⬇️

Excited to share our latest preprint on scaling laws in primate vision modeling! We trained and analyzed 600+ neural networks to understand how bigger models & more data affect brain predictivity. Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2411.05712… By me & Martin Schrimpf @ICLR2025 at EPFL EPFL Computer and Communication Sciences

For a while, gains in AI have translated into gains in modeling the brain. We test if that will continue to be the case with recent advances in scaling. Surprisingly we get mixed results: while increased scale advances model alignment to human behavior, neural alignment saturates

A few people asked why my slides looked jumbled up at the NIH workshop -- I promise they were fine when I sent them in last week 😄 Copy of them here for reference: mschrimpf.altervista.org/wp-content/upl… #NeuroAI

One month left to apply to this faculty position in neuromodulation: epfl.ch/about/working/… The EPFL NeuroX institute is a truly unique environment combining neuro-technology, -science, and -computation with the ultimate goal of applications in medicine. Come be our colleague!

🚨 New Paper! Can neuroscience localizers uncover brain-like functional specializations in LLMs? 🧠🤖 Yes! We analyzed 18 LLMs and found units mirroring the brain's language, theory of mind, and multiple demand networks! w/ Greta Tuckute, Antoine Bosselut, & Martin Schrimpf 🧵👇

🚀 Applications are OPEN for the CAJAL NeuroAI course! Learn how AI & deep learning help us model brain activity & behavior. Work with experts, get hands-on training & join a global network! 📅 Apply by March 7 🔗 loom.ly/xg_uRKE #NeuroAI #DeepLearning #Neuroscience

Excited to share that our paper, 'The LLM Language Network,' has been accepted to NAACL 2025! Looking forward to presenting it in Albuquerque—see you there! 🏜️ #NAACL2025

(NAACL) Badr AlKhamissi showed that neuroscience localizers uncover brain-like functional specializations in #LLMs. Across 18 LLMs, he discovered neuron groups that mirror the brain’s language, theory of mind, and multiple demand networks! Work w/ Martin Schrimpf Greta Tuckute

🚨 New Preprint!! LLMs trained on next-word prediction (NWP) show high alignment with brain recordings. But what drives this alignment—linguistic structure or world knowledge? And how does this alignment evolve during training? Our new paper explores these questions. 👇🧵

AI vision is insanely good nowadays—but is it really like human vision or something else entirely? In our new pre-print, we pinpoint a fundamental visual mechanism that's trivial for humans yet causes most models to fail spectacularly. Let's dive in👇🧠 [arxiv.org/abs/2504.05253]

✨Researchers led by Martin Schrimpf have developed the first #AI model of #language in the #brain 🧠 that captures both how neurons are arranged and how they function. Neuro-X Institute EPFL Computer and Communication Sciences EPFL actu.epfl.ch/news/a-new-ai-…

🔄✨ Come join us at the Second edition of the Re-Align workshop ICLR 2025! 🚀🧠 The workshop explores the fascinating question of how artificial and biological systems align in their representations of the world. #ReAlign #ICLR2025

Excited to be at #NAACL2025 in Albuquerque! I’ll be presenting our paper “The LLM Language Network” as an Oral tomorrow at 2:00 PM in Ballroom C, hope to see you there! Grateful to my co-authors Greta Tuckute, Antoine Bosselut, Martin Schrimpf — looking forward to the discussions!🧠