Physics of Learning and Adaptation I

Presentations

• High variance weight updates and sampling dynamics strongly affect how diffusion generative models generalize: a path-integral view

  ORAL

  March 18, 2025, 6:00 PM – March 18, 2025, 6:12 PM

  Publication: Generalization through variance: how noise shapes inductive biases in diffusion models (ICLR 2025 submission)

  Presenters

  • John Joseph Vastola

    Harvard Medical School

  Authors

  • John Joseph Vastola

    Harvard Medical School

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• Parameter Symmetry and Noise Equilibrium of Stochastic Gradient Descent

  ORAL

  March 18, 2025, 6:12 PM – March 18, 2025, 6:24 PM

  Presenters

  • Liu Ziyin

    Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  Authors

  • Liu Ziyin

    Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Mingze Wang

    Peking University

  • Hongchao Li

    University of Tokyo

  • Lei Wu

    Peking University

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• Understanding and Optimizing Gradients of Neural Networks Using Dynamical Systems Theory

  ORAL

  March 18, 2025, 6:24 PM – March 18, 2025, 6:36 PM

  Presenters

  • Rainer Engelken

    Columbia University

  Authors

  • Rainer Engelken

    Columbia University

  • Larry F Abbott

    Columbia University

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• Tracing a naturalistic artificial neural network's adaptation through memory and prediction

  ORAL

  March 18, 2025, 6:36 PM – March 18, 2025, 6:48 PM

  Presenters

  • Abigail M Minin

    Scripps College

  Authors

  • Sarah Marzen

    Scripps, Pitzer & Claremont McKenna College

  • Nicol Harper

    University of Oxford

  • Abigail M Minin

    Scripps College

  • Kate Rabinowitz

    Claremont McKenna College

  • Devon Xiong

    Pitzer College

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• Resource-rational reinforcement learning and sensorimotor causal states, \\ and resource-rational maximiners

  ORAL

  March 18, 2025, 6:48 PM – March 18, 2025, 7:00 PM

  Presenters

  • Sarah Marzen

    Scripps, Pitzer & Claremont McKenna College

  Authors

  • Sarah Marzen

    Scripps, Pitzer & Claremont McKenna College

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• Recurrent neural networks balance sensory- and memory-guided policies for spatial foraging.

  ORAL

  March 18, 2025, 7:00 PM – March 18, 2025, 7:12 PM

  Presenters

  • Scott Sterrett

    University of Washington

  Authors

  • Scott Sterrett

    University of Washington

  • David H Gire

    University of Washington

  • Adrienne Fairhall

    University of Washington

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• 'Interacting' parametric models of learning: insights into the adaptation to data

  ORAL · Invited

  March 18, 2025, 7:12 PM – March 18, 2025, 7:48 PM

  Presenters

  • Yasaman Bahri

    Google DeepMind

  Authors

  • Yasaman Bahri

    Google DeepMind

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• Emergent discreteness in optimal behavior

  ORAL

  March 18, 2025, 7:48 PM – March 18, 2025, 8:00 PM

  Presenters

  • Michael C Abbott

    Yale University

  Authors

  • Michael C Abbott

    Yale University

  • Benjamin B Machta

    Yale University

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• Phase transitions induced by resource limitations in biological information processing

  ORAL

  March 18, 2025, 8:00 PM – March 18, 2025, 8:12 PM

  Publication: Takehiro Tottori and Tetsuya J. Kobayashi, "Resource Limitations induce Phase Transitions in Biological Information Processing", arXiv:2409.14002 (2024)<br>Takehiro Tottori and Tetsuya J. Kobayashi, "Theory for Optimal Estimation and Control under Resource Limitations and Its Applications to Biological Information Processing and Decision-Making", arXiv:2409.14003 (2024)

  Presenters

  • Takehiro Tottori

    RIKEN Center for Brain Science

  Authors

  • Takehiro Tottori

    RIKEN Center for Brain Science

  • Tetsuya J Kobayashi

    The University of Tokyo

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• Fixational eye movements and retinal adaptation: optimizing motion to maximize information acquisition.

  ORAL

  March 18, 2025, 8:12 PM – March 18, 2025, 8:24 PM

  Publication: Fixational Eye Movements and Detection Thresholds, Alexander J.H. Houston, David H. Brainard, Hannah E. Smithson, Daniel J. Read (in preparation)

  Presenters

  • Daniel J Read

    University of Leeds

  Authors

  • Daniel J Read

    University of Leeds

  • Alexander J Houston

    University of Glasgow

  • David H Brainard

    University of Pennsylvania

  • Fabian Coupette

    University of Leeds

  • Hannah E Smithson

    University of Oxford

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• Analyzing an organism's sensors using Maximum Entropy models with bias, variance, and confusion matrices

  ORAL

  March 18, 2025, 8:24 PM – March 18, 2025, 8:36 PM

  Presenters

  • Christopher Wang

    Pomona College

  Authors

  • Sarah Marzen

    Scripps, Pitzer & Claremont McKenna College

  • Christopher Wang

    Pomona College

  • Elianna Schimke

    Scripps College

  • Martina Lamberti

    University of Twente

  • Joost le Feber

    University of Twente

  • Tristan Kako

    Pioneer Research Program

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