Il Memming Park

Computational / Theoretical / Statistical Neuroscientist.
Also @memming.bsky.social
Group leader @Neuro_CF
(formerly Associate professor @SBUNeurobiology)

[Il Memming Park @memming]

A new preprint that revives the theory of continous attractors that may be surprising to you! Despite their mathematical fragility, we show that they are functionally *robust*. No wonder we see approximate continuous attractors in neuroscience often. https://t.co/H37rUSpUoE

[catid @MrCatid]

GB300 optimized training code for "Memory By Design" Bayesian layer that outperforms Mamba-3 in some early 100M scale tests in speed and loss by a wide margin. Using it for H-nets soon if it continues to work well. https://t.co/AJSHpcMSsQ

[Yanan Sui @YananSui]

Human Self Model for Embodied Intelligence.
Open-source Project-Papers-Code:
https://t.co/tNhOd6BljH
MS-Human-700: Whole-body Human Musculoskeletal Modeling and Control.

[Jon Barron @jon_barron]

Hi all, I have a new result I'm excited to share. It turns out that *all existing implementations* of softmax and cross-entropy (that's JAX, PyTorch, textbooks, etc) have a subtle bug --- two bugs, actually. A simple rewrite fixes both, and eliminates "slingshots" when grokking:

[Eero Simoncelli @EeroSimoncelli]

Looking for a PhD program where you can study vision from different perspectives (computer vision, visual neuroscience, visual perception, image processing)? Consider applying to NYU!

https://t.co/z2ipuNqnFP

[Il Memming Park @memming]

@andrewgwils @plazined maybe it's psychologically addictive and ego-boosting to the extent that they can't stop despite the negative impacts on their career?

[Stony Brook Department of Neurobiology & Behavior @SBUNeurobiology]

Congratulations to @lab_plotkin on the great paper in Neuron! In it, they investigate the connectivity between the amygdala and dorsolateral striatum in a mouse model of OCD. Read more about the work in this @sbunewsdesk feature: https://t.co/lB7x30rTSk

[H.SHIMAZAKI @h_shimazaki]

1/14 🧠 Our paper is out in Science Advances!

S. Amin Moosavi, Sai Sumedh R. Hindupur, Hideaki Shimazaki
Population coding under the scale invariance of high-dimensional noise
Science Advances 12, eadz9632, 2026

https://t.co/qlsxNWHVqy

🎨 Robin Hoshino

[Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit @GatsbyUCL]

Interested in a #PhD in machine learning & theoretical neuroscience?

Applications for 2027 entry to the Gatsby Unit PhD programme now open!

💰 Fully-funded 4-year programme
🤝 Close links to Sainsbury Wellcome Centre & the ELLIS Unit @ UCL (@uclcsml)
ℹ️ https://t.co/Im1iRIbQx2

[CogCompNeuro @CogCompNeuro]

Skirball Theater events will again be streamed live 🖥️: https://t.co/cEfC2LD8gd
We aim to provide recordings of all parallel events after the conference.

Full event schedule: https://t.co/M5Vt30hyLt

[CogCompNeuro @CogCompNeuro]

At 3:45pm we introduce this year's parallel GAC Debates:
Is NeuroAI adopting the right methods & frameworks? 🖥️
Representations or Transformations: What Should Models of Neural Population Activity Explain?
Do World Models emerge in networks trained for prediction?

[Friedemann Zenke @hisspikeness]

1/7 Stop by our #ICML2026 spotlight poster next week!
https://t.co/VhEdW65CPz

We unify self-supervised learning (SSL) algorithms: contrastive, VICReg, stopgrad and more, under a single principle: latent distribution matching (LDM).
Paper: https://t.co/9RrpyCJhrx

[Doris Tsao @doristsao]

Astera Neuro is hiring! Come join our effort to decipher how activity across billions of neurons becomes the conscious experience of the world and ourselves.
Senior software engineer: https://t.co/5Q06R12MaB
Senior mechanical engineer:
https://t.co/4G2nJ6bHiy
@JedMcCaleb @seemaychou @AsteraInstitute

[Il Memming Park @memming]

@MaryamShanechi @RaynorProject @yisongyue Congratulations!

[Benyamin Abramovich Krasa @BenyaminAK_BCI]

🧠🗣️ Ever stumbled over your words, realizing only after speaking them outloud? Your brain might not have followed the plan. New preprint on the neural ensemble organization of speech motor plans and what it means for speech BCIs https://t.co/f7zpqNDKSc 1/10

[Il Memming Park @memming]

@KordingLab it may be always 10 years ahead; receding goal post problem will be with us forever.

[Il Memming Park @memming]

I've been a happy customer of @TheBrainTech product since 2015 or before, using the free tier which had basic cloud sync function. I finally upgraded to the PRO version and paid $200+ and I can no longer use the basic sync function... am I doing something wrong?

[Il Memming Park @memming]

If you are at #cosyne2026 come see poster [2-152] Dynamical archetype analysis: Autonomous computation. Ábel Ságodi is presenting how you can compare dynamical systems at behaviorally relevant timescale while keeping the interpretability!

[Il Memming Park @memming]

Are you at #cosyne2026 and looking for a postdoc position? We are hiring! Send me a message or find me! https://t.co/8BAU0IVBSX

[Zeinab Mohammadi @Zeinab___M]

Happy to share that our new paper is out in Nature Communications with Zoe Ashwood, @IntlBrainLab, and @jpillowtime!

We study how animals switch between internal decision-making states in non-stationary environments using a GLM-HMM framework.

https://t.co/gZoqFwgcZx

[Il Memming Park @memming]

@paperpile I'm getting "you're offline" state often these days. What could be going on? If I refresh the paperpile page on Chome, it works again.