The neuroconnectionist research programme

A Doerig, RP Sommers, K Seeliger… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
Artificial neural networks (ANNs) inspired by biology are beginning to be widely used to
model behavioural and neural data, an approach we call 'neuroconnectionism'. ANNs have …

Robust heterogeneous federated learning under data corruption

X Fang, M Ye, X Yang - Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF …, 2023 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Abstract Model heterogeneous federated learning is a realistic and challenging problem.
However, due to the limitations of data collection, storage, and transmission conditions, as …

Improving deep learning with prior knowledge and cognitive models: A survey on enhancing interpretability, adversarial robustness and zero-shot learning

F Mumuni, A Mumuni - Cognitive Systems Research, 2023 - Elsevier
We review current and emerging knowledge-informed and brain-inspired cognitive systems
for realizing adversarial defenses, eXplainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI), and zero-shot or …

State-dependent pupil dilation rapidly shifts visual feature selectivity

K Franke, KF Willeke, K Ponder, M Galdamez, N Zhou… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
To increase computational flexibility, the processing of sensory inputs changes with
behavioural context. In the visual system, active behavioural states characterized by motor …

The algonauts project 2023 challenge: How the human brain makes sense of natural scenes

AT Gifford, B Lahner, S Saba-Sadiya, MG Vilas… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
The sciences of biological and artificial intelligence are ever more intertwined. Neural
computational principles inspire new intelligent machines, which are in turn used to advance …

The sensorium competition on predicting large-scale mouse primary visual cortex activity

KF Willeke, PG Fahey, M Bashiri, L Pede… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
The neural underpinning of the biological visual system is challenging to study
experimentally, in particular as the neuronal activity becomes increasingly nonlinear with …

Robust deep learning object recognition models rely on low frequency information in natural images

Z Li, J Ortega Caro, E Rusak, W Brendel… - PLOS Computational …, 2023 - journals.plos.org
Machine learning models have difficulty generalizing to data outside of the distribution they
were trained on. In particular, vision models are usually vulnerable to adversarial attacks or …

Aligning model and macaque inferior temporal cortex representations improves model-to-human behavioral alignment and adversarial robustness

J Dapello, K Kar, M Schrimpf, R Geary, M Ferguson… - bioRxiv, 2022 - biorxiv.org
While some state-of-the-art artificial neural network systems in computer vision are strikingly
accurate models of the corresponding primate visual processing, there are still many …

Lcanets: Lateral competition improves robustness against corruption and attack

M Teti, G Kenyon, B Migliori… - … Conference on Machine …, 2022 - proceedings.mlr.press
Abstract Although Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) achieve high accuracy on image
recognition tasks, they lack robustness against realistic corruptions and fail catastrophically …

Deep learning-driven characterization of single cell tuning in primate visual area V4 unveils topological organization

KF Willeke, K Restivo, K Franke, AF Nix, SA Cadena… - bioRxiv, 2023 - biorxiv.org
Deciphering the brain's structure-function relationship is key to understanding the neuronal
mechanisms underlying perception and cognition. The cortical column, a vertical …