Kanishka Misra

kanishka.bsky.social

09 September 2026 20:47

Understanding how learners conclude “X laughed Y” is incorrect is an age-old question, with several hypotheses, some of which have been ~impossible to disentangle! @tomyxw.bsky.social, @fredashi.bsky.social, and I use controlled rearing to shed light on this in our new EMNLP paper: 1/n

Athena Akrami

athenaakrami.bsky.social

07 September 2026 21:06

Another bittersweet moment; another PhD student graduated. Huge congratulations to Dr. Quentin Pajot-Moric, who just passed his viva! 🥳🎉 And big thanks to the examiners @kerrywalker.bsky.social and @adilgkhan.bsky.social! 🙏 ❤️

Laura Driscoll

lndriscoll.bsky.social

09 August 2026 09:02

Confused about all this talk of compositionality in neuroscience? Read our new perspective www.nature.com/articles/s41... with authors Reidar Riveland and Alex Pouget.

Reza Shadmehr

rezashadmehr.bsky.social

28 July 2026 18:41

If an action results in error, each neuron requires an individualized teaching signal that guides change in its output. This is the credit assignment problem of learning. Are there neurons in the brain that can compute such a sophisticated teaching signal? Yes. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Samuel Lippl

sflippl.bsky.social

08 July 2026 21:04

Pretraining + fine-tuning powers modern ML, but we lack a theoretical understanding of how pretraining actually shapes downstream learning. In our new @icmlconf.bsky.social paper, we address this gap! 📅 July 9th, Poster #4502 Session 8! 🧵 arxiv.org/pdf/2602.20062