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It was such a lovely time! We were all amazed by what Carnegie Mellon University Africa has achieved (and by how beautiful the campus is)🌺🌳. A big thank you for sponsoring the school and supporting us with the organization🤗

We are pleased to announce our new work, “GameTraversalBenchmark: Evaluating Planning Abilities Of Large Language Models Through Traversing 2D Game Maps” with Prof. Julian Togelius and Dr. Steven James, is accepted to #NeurIPS2024 D&B track. 1/9

The countdown begins for our South African Brainhack!! Watch this space for ways to connect in virtually too! CIFAR IBRO - International Brain Research Organization WitsNeuRL Johannesburg Institute for Advanced Study (JIAS) Wits University g.tec medical engineering GmbH

Lab tours, VR experiments, art museum, street art, and a Center of Origin Tour …And that’s just the first morning in beautiful SA! First impressions from #SABrainhack Samantha Jane Brooks g.tec medical engineering GmbH CIFAR Johannesburg Institute for Advanced Study (JIAS) Sahba Besharati Communications Biology WitsNeuRL NEURAL Oliver Turnbull

And so it begins… our first #SAbrainhack day Wits University and Johannesburg Institute for Advanced Study (JIAS), continuing tomorrow to Wits Rural for the official program to begin! Michel Thiebaut de S Aline Benjamin Rosman RAIL Lab 🇿🇦 CIFAR IBRO - International Brain Research Organization

So grateful to team up with Guillaume Dumas RAIL Lab 🇿🇦 and g.tec medical engineering GmbH to reimagine neuroimaging science that is ecologically valid and accessible at our #SABrainhack with our EEG hyperscanning project! Think Unicorn! CIFAR IBRO - International Brain Research Organization

I am happy that our paper won an Outstanding Paper Award at EMNLP 2025 🎉 Congratulations Hellina Hailu Nigatu Benjamin Rosman thamar | & Monojit Choudhury

2025 @Blavatnikawards UK 🇬🇧 Finalist Andrew Saxe from UCL was featured on the BBC Science Focus Instant Genius Podcast on how AI is helping us understand how our brains🧠 learn: open.spotify.com/episode/6pcv55… and podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/how… Andrew Saxe @UCL

Our paper, “A Theory of Initialization’s Impact on Specialization,” has been accepted to ICLR 2025! openreview.net/forum?id=RQz7s… We shows how neural network can build specialized and shared representation depending on initialization, this has consequences in continual learning. (1/8)

🚀Exciting News! 🚀 Join us for the first UniReps x UCL_NeuroAI (inactive) Meetup at UCL SWC on Sept 8, 2025! 🎉 📍 Register now! 👉docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI… 🔬 Exploring unifying representations in neural models—both artificial & biological. 🎙️ Keynote by Iris Groen (University

I'm excited to announce that I have received the Thuthuka Research Grant from the National Research Foundation of South Africa! I will use this grant to start my own lab focused on comp neuro and ML theory at Wits University: the Cognition, Adaptation and Learning (CAandL) Lab! This is a joint effort with Victoria Williams, Stefano Sarao Mannelli and Geraud Nangue Tasse.

Our paper, “Make Haste Slowly: A Theory of Emergent Structured Mixed Selectivity in Feature Learning ReLU Networks” will be presented at ICLR 2025 this week (openreview.net/forum?id=27SSn…)! We derive closed-form dynamics for some, remarkably linear, feature learning ReLU networks (1/9)

CAandL Lab is at ICLR this week with 3 poster presentations. Come by and chat if you are interested! Congrats to all of the authors🥳 Francesco Mori Stefano Sarao Mannelli Francesca Mignacco Devon Jarvis Richard Klein Benjamin Rosman Andrew Saxe Sebastian Lee Clémentine Dominé 🍊

Talk Announcement: Dr. Steven James will give a lecture this Friday at 15:00 on the use of ML and robotics in the Sterkfontein Caves. This has and continues to be an exciting line of work in the lab and Steve will cover a couple of our recent projects. RSVP while there's space!🦾