Biological Learning Without a Brain

Presentations

• Learning in giant, network-shaped but single-celled Physarum

  ORAL · Invited

  March 20, 2025, 2:30 PM – March 20, 2025, 3:06 PM

  Presenters

  • Karen Alim

    Technical University of Munich

  Authors

  • Karen Alim

    Technical University of Munich

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• Supervised learning in DNA neural networks

  ORAL · Invited

  March 20, 2025, 3:06 PM – March 20, 2025, 3:42 PM

  Publication: Kevin M. Cherry and Lulu Qian, Supervised learning in DNA neural networks, under review (2025).

  Presenters

  • Lulu Qian

    Caltech

  Authors

  • Lulu Qian

    Caltech

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• On physical processes that work like learning algorithms

  ORAL · Invited

  March 20, 2025, 3:42 PM – March 20, 2025, 4:18 PM

  Publication: [1] Anisetti, Vidyesh Rao, Benjamin Scellier, and Jennifer M. Schwarz. "Learning by non-interfering feedback chemical signaling in physical networks." Physical Review Research 5.2 (2023): 023024.<br><br>[2] Anisetti, Vidyesh Rao, et al. "Frequency propagation: Multimechanism learning in nonlinear physical networks." Neural Computation 36.4 (2024): 596-620.<br><br>[3] Anisetti, Vidyesh Rao, Ananth Kandala, and J. M. Schwarz. "Emergent learning in physical systems as feedback-based aging in a glassy landscape." arXiv preprint arXiv:2309.04382 (2023).<br><br>[4] Anisetti, Vidyesh Rao, Ananth Kandala, and J. M. Schwarz. "A slime mold inspired local adaptive mechanism for flow networks." arXiv preprint arXiv:2309.16988 (2023).

  Presenters

  • Vidyesh Rao Anisetti

    University of Chicago

  Authors

  • Vidyesh Rao Anisetti

    University of Chicago

  • Ananth Kandala

    University of Florida

  • Benjamin Scellier

    Rain Neuromorphics

  • Joseph D Paulsen

    Syracuse University

  • Nidhi Pashine

    Syracuse University

  • Jennifer M Schwarz

    Syracuse University, Department of Physics, Syracuse University

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• Biological neuromorphic computing using brain organoids

  ORAL · Invited

  March 20, 2025, 4:18 PM – March 20, 2025, 4:54 PM

  Publication: Brain Organoid Reservoir Computing for Artificial Intelligence, Nature Electronics, 2023, 6,1032–1039

  Presenters

  • Feng Guo

    Indian University

  Authors

  • Feng Guo

    Indian University

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• Emergent Learning in an Embedded Spheroid System

  ORAL · Invited

  March 20, 2025, 4:54 PM – March 20, 2025, 5:30 PM

  Presenters

  • Tao Zhang

    Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ, Shanghai Jiao Tong University

  Authors

  • Tao Zhang

    Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ, Shanghai Jiao Tong University

  • Shabeeb Ameen

    Syracuse University

  • Wenjing Guo

    Shanghai Jiao Tong University

  • Liyang Wang

    Shanghai Jiao Tong University

  • Kairui Zhang

    Shanghai Jiao Tong University

  • Jennifer M Schwarz

    Syracuse University, Department of Physics, Syracuse University

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