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MSc. @mila-quebec.bsky.social and @mcgill.ca in the LiNC lab Fixating on multi-agent RL, Neuro-AI and decisions Ēka ē-akimiht https://danemalenfant.com/
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On March 10, 2025, the Helmholtz HIDA AI Lecture Series will feature HBHL-funded researcher @tyrellturing.bsky.social for a talk on new techniques for training neural decoding models across diverse datasets. 🧠🧪 💻 Register for this online event now: events.hifis.net/event/2023/ #neuroskyence #AI

Student Job Alert ⚠️ HBHL is looking to hire two @mcgill.ca grad students this term as Administrative & Communications Assistants to help the HBHL Trainee Committee with the organization of the annual HBHL Symposium and with various administrative tasks. 🙌 Apply by Feb 25: mcgill.ca/x/iZr

Check out our new report on multi-agent security led by Lewis Hammond and the Cooperative AI Foundation! With the deployment of increasingly agentic AI systems across domains, this research area becomes more crucial.

NEW: Trump actions on science may affect a generation as pauses + cuts in graduate admissions begin. “We had just flown them out, we told them we love you, we want to admit you, and then everything just stopped." "It's freezing everybody into inaction." www.statnews.com/2025/02/19/t...

‘Never underestimate the power of quiet determination. It changes the most severe circumstances and holds the line against impossible odds.’ - Tatanga Mani (George McLean), Stoney-Nakoda, at age 92 as seen by photojournalist Rosemary Gilliat at Morley, Alberta in 1962.

Do I like this so much because it's a fantastic bit of science or because it's a fantastic job of doing science communication?!? Probably both. Regardless, awesome work that is worth checking out:)

Position open for Director of Research Innovation & Operations at Concordia as part of the Abundant Intelligences (www.indigenous-ai.net/abundant/) project, which seeks to reshape AI with indigenous insights: www.kbrs.ca/Career/17387... Please share!!! 🧪 #MLSky

We've built a simulated driving agent that we trained on 1.6 billion km of driving with no human data. It is SOTA on every planning benchmark we tried. In self-play, it goes 20 years between collisions.

Can AI agents adapt zero-shot, to complex multi-step language instructions in open-ended environments? We present MaestroMotif, a method for skill design that produces highly capable and steerable hierarchical agents. Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2412.08542 Code: github.com/mklissa/maestromotif

@theguardian.com has produced an excellent recap of some of the key points of the International AI Safety Report. Full article below: www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Hi! Looking for an undergrad volunteer who's interested in working with SSMs + transformers for neural decoding/BCIs at Mila! Strong coding + Pytorch skills are a must. Please DM/email me your CV + interests (priority given to those based in Montréal). Thanks! 🧠🤖

🔔 Last Call! Join the 2025 Cohort of Indigenous Pathfinders in AI! A unique opportunity to collaborate with Mila and Indspire, explore the world of artificial intelligence, and help shape a more inclusive future. Application Deadline: January 31 mila.quebec/en/ai4humani...

@cosynemeeting.bsky.social workshops are posted and they’re 🔥🔥🔥, as always. www.cosyne.org/workshops-pr... #cosyne #cosyne2025 #neuroskyence

lmao no, TikTok users are not moving to Bluesky. They would literally rather learn Mandarin than learn how to read a feed of text posts. This is a millennial retirement home.

I find learning curves very beautiful

The Algonauts Project Challenge is back! 🧠🤖 This year's iteration invites people to bridge the gap between neuroscience and AI by tackling the brain-inspired challenge of understanding how the brain processes multimodal movies! algonautsproject.com/challenge.html #Neuroscience #AI

Gathering at Buffalo Child Stone (Mistaseni), a 400-tonne glacial boulder and sacred site, in 1966. Elder Wilfred Tootoosis in background with headdress. In December, 1966 it was dynamited by the Russ Thatcher-led Saskatchewan government, prior to the damming of the South…

Being able to reason out the tensor causing the OOM error is a good feeling

How can we model the complexity of agents interacting with their worlds? How can we represent individual autonomy in mathematical terms? Here's a classic paper by Randall Beer with a dynamical systems perspective core.ac.uk/download/pdf...

Finally made a website danemalenfant.com

Our COSYNE abstracts on real-time BCI decoding (w/ @averyryoo.bsky.social, Ximeng Mao, @mattperich.bsky.social, @glajoie.bsky.social) and motor learning (w/ @oliviercodol.bsky.social, @glajoie.bsky.social, @mattperich.bsky.social) were accepted! Couldn’t have asked for a better Xmas gift 🎄

My favorite data structures - Hana Dusíková - Keynote Meeting C++ 2024 www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAIF... #cpp #cplusplus

Vocal cats get head pats

Bounded optimality of time investments in rats, mice, and humans https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.12.09.627552v1

Me at 19 trying to leave Saskatchewan:

Fun fact related to this thread: Do you know what brought the ReLU activation function back into vogue in AI? It was this paper from Yoshua's group, which was motivated by the observation that ReLU is a better match to real neurons' IO-functions! proceedings.mlr.press/v15/glorot11a 🧠📈 #NeuroAI

Study computer science to avoid writing essays -> Need to write good grant essays to continue studying computer science

1/ Okay, one thing that has been revealed to me from the replies to this is that many people don't know (or refuse to recognize) the following fact: The unts in ANN are actually not a terrible approximation of how real neurons work! A tiny 🧵. 🧠📈 #NeuroAI #MLSky

The problem with current SSL? It's hungry. Very hungry. 🤖 Training time: Weeks Dataset size: Millions of images Compute costs: 💸💸💸 Our #NeurIPS2024 poster makes SSL pipelines 2x faster and achieves similar accuracy at 50% pretraining cost! 💪🏼✨ 🧵 1/8

Now you can generate equilibrium conformations for your small molecule in 3 lines of code with ET-Flow! Awesome effort put in by @fntwin.bsky.social!

I will be at #Neurips2024 next week and speaking at the Indigenous in AI/ML event Thursday: neurips.cc/virtual/2024...

Mila has a booth at @neuripsconf.bsky.social! Come chat with us if you want to join our research institute or to meet with some of our researchers at #104, West Exhibition Hall A.

Next semester, I’m kicking off my NeuroAI course for the first time… IN FRENCH! 🇨🇦🥖 "IA en psychologie et neuroscience" 🤖🧠 It will cover the basics of AI and its application in neuroscience & psychology I’ll be sharing updates as we go, but here’s slide #2 from the first session.

Je fréquentais un peu trop de Français récemment. L’agent de YUL m’a demandé si j’ai des “bottes d’hiver”. J’ai seule entendu “pots de verre” là 💀

AI skepticism / criticism would hit a lot harder if the field wasn't full of prominent folks repeatedly claiming AI doesn't work / has no value. Hard to engage with something when it can seemingly support such a weird conclusion

We’re excited to present ET-Flow at #NeurIPS 2024—an Equivariant Flow Matching model that combines simplicity, efficiency, and precision to set a new standard for 3D molecular conformer generation. 🔖Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2410.22388 🔗Github: github.com/shenoynikhil...

I will be at #Neurips2024 next week and speaking at the Indigenous in AI/ML event Thursday: neurips.cc/virtual/2024...

This will facilitate moving RL from gridworld