M- Lab of Adaptive Intelligence @EPFL

Merging artificial and natural intelligence to study adaptive mechanisms | CV, ML, Neuro | PI: @trackingactions

[M- Lab of Adaptive Intelligence @EPFL @MLabofAI]

🦓🦓🦓 #CEBRA is out 🎉🎉🎉

Check out the @Nature paper ⬇️ & the gorgeous code & resources built by current members @stes_io @BenquetCelia @TrackingActions

@EPFL_en @epflSV

📚 how to use: https://t.co/Hihxng6lzh
💻 install: https://t.co/sQ681FrdZa
📖https://t.co/GqvIxgWL44

[Mackenzie Weygandt Mathis, PhD @TrackingActions]

🦓 Self-supervised multimodal ML is promising the next AI breakthrough - in our new work published in @Nature, we debut @CEBRAai: for self-supervised hypothesis- and discovery-driven science.

📝 https://t.co/VmrRfy5V9B
💻https://t.co/RsnRWqkbGs
🦓 https://t.co/zgxSGtOpav
🧵⬇️

[Mackenzie Weygandt Mathis, PhD @TrackingActions]

🥳 New work from my lab (@MLabofAI) just dropped on @arxiv! Measuring the shape of an animal can be highly useful for biomedical applications and for avatars 😎

We introduce *PRIMA*:🔥SOTA 2D➡️3D animal shape by @xiaoyu912huang, @TiwangCS & I!

📝 https://t.co/s7sA0Lup2S

[Mackenzie Weygandt Mathis, PhD @TrackingActions]

And now, accepted to #CVPR2026! 🙌🔥 @CVPR ⬇️

[Mackenzie Weygandt Mathis, PhD @TrackingActions]

🚨 ✨ New 3D pose estimation method from @mwmathislab! #FMPose3D allows for monocular (i.e. single camera) 2D ➡️ 3D 🔥

Led by @TiwangCS & w/@xiaoyu912huang #FMPose3D is SOTA on human & animal 3D benchmarks, & will be integrated into @DeepLabCut ⬇️👀

📝 https://t.co/wZ0sBNsgqL

[Mackenzie Weygandt Mathis, PhD @TrackingActions]

💉 Finding clinical trials & knowing which are useful is an overwhelming task, even if you know where to start!

I worked on a simple @Gradio app for parsing clinical trials+ adding a #DeepSeek model to rank trials + user Q&A. I hope its useful to many:

https://t.co/SKWSXFCwVw

[Mackenzie Weygandt Mathis, PhD @TrackingActions]

🐻 reID of unmarked Grizzly's in Alaskan wilderness from single images is a daunting task, but in our new work out in @CurrentBiology that is exactly what Beth Rosenberg & Mu Zhou & @TrackingPlumes! 🔥 Check out the work - many years in the making...

https://t.co/YJvqPf0Kuf

[Mackenzie Weygandt Mathis, PhD @TrackingActions]

🔥🍾 massive congratulations to @shaokaiyeah and Haozhe Qi for #LLaVAction to be accepted to #ICLR2026!

TL;DR the first MMLLM for action understanding, + a new benchmark, + methods to train your MMLLMs for such tasks 🕺🏻💃🏼

💻 https://t.co/xicoUP0dst
💙 https://t.co/4a8MbuWF9C

[Mackenzie Weygandt Mathis, PhD @TrackingActions]

🚨 Looking for a primer on the latest advances in joint neural-behavioral modeling?

🤩 Check out our new Nature Reviews Neuroscience piece! It was really an honor to write this 🫶

https://t.co/iqeXgAOA2r

[CLaE @leafs_s]

Nature Neuroscience

Leveraging insights from neuroscience to build adaptive artificial intelligence

https://t.co/VqH48bn3XO

[Mackenzie Weygandt Mathis, PhD @TrackingActions]

👀 How can we use new neuroscience insights to build *adaptive* AI agents and leverage the many foundation models ( which are much like different brain areas)?

Check out my pitch in @NatureNeuro in the Jan 2026 issue 💚 ⬇️

https://t.co/NzVXUZxJri

#AIagents #neuroscience #AGI

[Mackenzie Weygandt Mathis, PhD @TrackingActions]

Delighted to have my perspective on how we can leverage the latest insights from neuroscience to build adaptive AI agents out in @NatureNeuro 🖤💙

🔗 https://t.co/NzVXUZxJri

[Mackenzie Weygandt Mathis, PhD @TrackingActions]

Interested in the latest advances in neuroscience (neural dynamics and internal models) and how they can be leveraged to build smarter, adaptive AI?

➡️ My first real solo piece 🖤🫶 @NatureNeuro

https://t.co/oa0Ky1qDZN

[Mackenzie Weygandt Mathis, PhD @TrackingActions]

The 2025 lab swag / holiday kit! 🍫🍷🧖‍♀️- happy holidays everyone!

[EPFL @EPFL_en]

The Swiss Laboratory Animal Science Association awarded on Wednesday its 2025 Prize to neuroscientist Mackenzie Mathis, Professor at EPFL, “for her outstanding contribution to the refinement of animal research.” 

https://t.co/JGk0reFZzK

[Nature Rev Neurosci @NatRevNeurosci]

Joint modelling of brain and behaviour dynamics with artificial intelligence — a Review by Mackenzie Weygandt Mathis & Alexander Mathis

@TrackingActions @TrackingPlumes

https://t.co/cP3K2yTi0g

[Francis Engelmann ☀️ @CVPR'26 @FrancisEngelman]

The next OpenSUN3D workshop takes place at @ICCVConference -- we are excited to announce a fantastic line-up of speakers:
👩‍💼 @TrackingActions @sainingxie @jstraub6 @angelxchang @ir0armeni
⏱️Date/time: Oct. 19, 1:30pm--6pm (1st day, afternoon)
🏡Details: https://t.co/XqA2dyAp2Q

[M- Lab of Adaptive Intelligence @EPFL @MLabofAI]

The lab hit it out of the park with the 8 year lab anniversary celebration today!!

Extra thanks to @g_roodle for the excellent snacks and science 🔥💪

[Mackenzie Weygandt Mathis, PhD @TrackingActions]

My lab has been pushing into explainable, robust, & theoretically-tractable AI models for science 💪

🚨At #ICCV2025 we introduce #DISTIL - led by amazing PhD student @hsirm96 - we propose a trigger-inversion method for DNNs that reconstructs malicious backdoor triggers 1/4

[Sabrina Benas @Sabrineiitor]

Este año llega la DLC AI Residency a CABA! 🎉 @DeepLabCut

Durante dos días vamos a aprender y analizar datos de comportamiento 🐭🐒🦥

Anotate en 👇
https://t.co/2iGrjUg9ff

📆 Aplicaciones abiertas hasta el 25/7
🚨 Cupos limitados

¡Te esperamos!

[Mackenzie Weygandt Mathis, PhD @TrackingActions]

🥰 Self-supervised, label-free 3D cell imaging is here https://t.co/mbU5TvLy2g #epfl #elife

Congrats to @AChRD4 on this very cool first, first author publication 🏆! This started when he was a bachelor's student (and he's now completing his masters!).

And many thanks to my other awesome co-authors: @TheVetFuturist @vmaxmc2 @CYHSM Yves Paychere Colin Hofmann @itsasimiqbal @SebHausmann and @stephane_pages! 🙏

https://t.co/PyUnTGFJHh

[Mackenzie Weygandt Mathis, PhD @TrackingActions]

🥳New @CellCellPress paper, where I was delighted to play a small part in their big discovery:

🚨They found *specific* neuropeptides that can determine AND *change* the cast of ants 🐜🍃👀 (and has a global similar role in naked mole rats 🐀)

https://t.co/cN3vol8HgJ

👩‍🔬My masters student (at the time, now awesome @Apple Eng) @NasFilippova and my part was to analyze their behavior with #DeepLabCut 🐜& segmentation 🍃 after the peptide was injected and viola ➡️ leaf cutting! (Code here: https://t.co/XDYUhv86oJ)

Thanks to Shelley Berger https://t.co/yF3w8AqYuV for inviting us to collaborative on this amazing work 💜

👀 And yes, this is the real graphical abstract #scienceisfun ⬇️