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 …

Reconstructing computational system dynamics from neural data with recurrent neural networks

D Durstewitz, G Koppe, MI Thurm - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2023 - nature.com
Computational models in neuroscience usually take the form of systems of differential
equations. The behaviour of such systems is the subject of dynamical systems theory …

Transformers learn to implement preconditioned gradient descent for in-context learning

K Ahn, X Cheng, H Daneshmand… - Advances in Neural …, 2023 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Several recent works demonstrate that transformers can implement algorithms like gradient
descent. By a careful construction of weights, these works show that multiple layers of …

[HTML][HTML] Modern language models refute Chomsky's approach to language

ST Piantadosi - From fieldwork to linguistic theory: A tribute to …, 2023 - books.google.com
Modern machine learning has subverted and bypassed the theoretical framework of
Chomsky's generative approach to linguistics, including its core claims to particular insights …

Graph neural networks: foundation, frontiers and applications

L Wu, P Cui, J Pei, L Zhao, X Guo - … of the 28th ACM SIGKDD conference …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
The field of graph neural networks (GNNs) has seen rapid and incredible strides over the
recent years. Graph neural networks, also known as deep learning on graphs, graph …

Transformers learn shortcuts to automata

B Liu, JT Ash, S Goel, A Krishnamurthy… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
Algorithmic reasoning requires capabilities which are most naturally understood through
recurrent models of computation, like the Turing machine. However, Transformer models …

Modular deep learning

J Pfeiffer, S Ruder, I Vulić, EM Ponti - arxiv preprint arxiv:2302.11529, 2023 - arxiv.org
Transfer learning has recently become the dominant paradigm of machine learning. Pre-
trained models fine-tuned for downstream tasks achieve better performance with fewer …

How do transformers learn topic structure: Towards a mechanistic understanding

Y Li, Y Li, A Risteski - International Conference on Machine …, 2023 - proceedings.mlr.press
While the successes of transformers across many domains are indisputable, accurate
understanding of the learning mechanics is still largely lacking. Their capabilities have been …

All you need to know about model predictive control for buildings

J Drgoňa, J Arroyo, IC Figueroa, D Blum… - Annual Reviews in …, 2020 - Elsevier
It has been proven that advanced building control, like model predictive control (MPC), can
notably reduce the energy use and mitigate greenhouse gas emissions. However, despite …

Deep learning and process understanding for data-driven Earth system science

M Reichstein, G Camps-Valls, B Stevens, M Jung… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
Abstract Machine learning approaches are increasingly used to extract patterns and insights
from the ever-increasing stream of geospatial data, but current approaches may not be …