Niru Maheswaranathan

[AI at Meta @AIatMeta]

We’re thrilled to see our advanced ML models and EMG hardware — that transform neural signals controlling muscles at the wrist into commands that seamlessly drive computer interactions — appearing in the latest edition of @Nature.

Read the story: https://t.co/75UEPCjoi9

Find more details on this work and the models on @github: https://t.co/D6upYyjy0Z

[Niru Maheswaranathan @niru_m]

@aran_nayebi @CarnegieMellon @mldcmu Congrats Aran!! Looking forward to following your lab’s work!

[Patrick Mineault @patrickmineault]

Excited to speak with this fine gang in St Louis next month, including @neurograce @karimjerbineuro @niru_m @martin_schrimpf @chethan @weixx2 @HombreCerebro . Bring on the future of NeuroAI! https://t.co/pFOZwu454B

[Niru Maheswaranathan @niru_m]

@klindt_david @teulerlab @alxecker @CellTypist @MatthiasBethge @EeroSimoncelli @adric_dunn @wielandbr @SussilloDavid @ninamiolane @fredericpoitev1 Congrats, David!! Exciting news

[Niru Maheswaranathan @niru_m]

How long until there is a feature length film that is completely AI generated? I’m guessing ~2028

[Sam Altman @sama]

here is sora, our video generation model:

https://t.co/CDr4DdCrh1

today we are starting red-teaming and offering access to a limited number of creators.

@_tim_brooks @billpeeb @model_mechanic are really incredible; amazing work by them and the team.

remarkable moment.

[Niru Maheswaranathan @niru_m]

@yasamanbb Thanks for sharing! I really enjoyed your talk!

[Niru Maheswaranathan @niru_m]

I'm incredibly saddened today to hear about the passing of Prof. Craig Henriquez, one of my first research advisors when I was an undergrad. Craig was an incredible mentor, scientist, and compassionate human being; he will be deeply missed. https://t.co/0cAeUAGkzV

[Surya Ganguli @SuryaGanguli]

1/Our paper @NeuroCellPress "Interpreting the retinal code for natural scenes" develops explainable AI (#XAI) to derive a SOTA deep network model of the retina and *understand* how this net captures natural scenes plus 8 seminal experiments over >2 decades https://t.co/6rFK5D3Po8

[Niru Maheswaranathan @niru_m]

cc @ItsNeuronal

[dr. ashley juavinett @analog_ashley]

Sometimes I want to be a computational neuroscientist just so that I can make minimalist talks with only keynote drawings and whatever that cool sans serif font is

[Niru Maheswaranathan @niru_m]

@joshuaiglaser @NUFeinbergMed Congrats, Josh and @NUFeinbergMed ! Exciting news!

[Niru Maheswaranathan @niru_m]

@klindt_david @Meta @SussilloDavid Welcome!! Great to have you on the team!

[Niru Maheswaranathan @niru_m]

Heading to Lisbon for #cosyne2022! Looking forward to talking science in person!

[Daniel Wetmore @dzwetmore]

I'll be in Lisbon along with great team of our scientists including @SussilloDavid @niru_m @CLWarriner @diogo_neuro @DiegoGutnisky @najabam. Long overdue to talk science in person!

[Niru Maheswaranathan @niru_m]

@octonion We found that RNNs were capable of discovering some commonly used optimization techniques, but it took some digging to understand how: https://t.co/rc8ciJj3SE

[Niru Maheswaranathan @niru_m]

This gradient might look good in expectation, but what about the variance? 🤔

[Aran Komatsuzaki @arankomatsuzaki]

Gradients without Backpropagation

Presents a method to compute gradients based solely on the directional derivative that one can compute exactly and efficiently via the forward mode, entirely eliminating the need for backpropagation in gradient descent.

https://t.co/2eNaSlGgAi

[Niru Maheswaranathan @niru_m]

Interesting paper making connections between representational drift in biological brains and dropout in ANNs!

[Kyle Aitken @KyleJAitken]

New work out on bioRxiv (https://t.co/h97lUGnkO7) on the geometry of representational drift in natural and artificial neural networks. Work done with Marina Garrett (@matchings), Shawn Olsen, and Stefan Mihalas (@Stefan_Mihalas) at the @AllenInstitute. 🧵

[Niru Maheswaranathan @niru_m]

@klindt_david Congrats, David!! Awesome defense hat!

[Niru Maheswaranathan @niru_m]

@converge_Venky Thanks! And thanks for the great questions. Nice to meet you!

[Niru Maheswaranathan @niru_m]

@EllaBatty @neuromatch Congrats!! Well deserved!

[Niru Maheswaranathan @niru_m]

@josh_kimrey @SussilloDavid Got any tips/ pointers for places to start?

[Niru Maheswaranathan @niru_m]

@josh_kimrey @SussilloDavid I have not come across that before, I will check it out!