arXiv:2511. 08436v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: How complex collective behavior emerges from individual interactions is a fundamental scientific question, but experimental cost and difficulty of simultaneous multi-brain recordings limit direct study in animals.
arXiv:2603.28200v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Guiding collective motion in biological groups is a fundamental challenge in understanding social interaction rules. In this study, we propos...
arXiv:2607. 29347v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Modern neuroscience relies on integrating multi-scale, multimodal datasets to uncover the neural principles underlying intelligence.
arXiv:2607. 19548v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Understanding animal behavior at an algorithmic level -- what animals attend to, how they form internal models and plans, and how this maps to action -- remains a central challenge in neuroscience and ethology.
arXiv:2608.28046v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Collective behaviour in living systems is usually modelled as the outcome of a \emph{direct} social drive: agents are rewarded, or hard-wired, to ali...
arXiv:2607. 14086v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robust and accurate neural decoders are integral to neurotechnologies such as brain-computer interfaces and closed-loop experiments.
The paper introduces SCAMPER, a system that trains a virtual rat model to exhibit realistic movements during both goal-directed tasks and random exploration. SCAMPER employs a variational architecture with two priors—a motion prior for control and a behavior prior for exploration—to generate natural behavior and effectively exploit task structure. The system can learn from sparse rewards, enabling realistic modeling of sparse-reward tasks used in experimental neuroscience.
BrainWideBench is a benchmark that evaluates across‑animal transfer on multi‑region neural recordings from 139 mice, covering 276 brain regions. It comprises three task suites—behavior decoding, neural activity prediction, and anatomical organization recovery—to test whether learned representations support diverse downstream objectives. The benchmark shows that while pretraining improves performance over single‑session baselines, current methods vary in transfer ability and none perform uniformly well across all suites, highlighting the challenge of developing general‑purpose neural representations.
Robust and accurate neural decoders are integral to neurotechnologies such as brain-computer interfaces and closed-loop experiments. Recent work has shown that tokenizing neural data at the spike level facilitates multi-session pretraining and delivers state-of-the-art decoding performance.
arXiv:2610.14449v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Experiments with remote decision-making agents depend on more than the policy: the world may change during inference, the simulator determines which...
The study investigates how intrinsic motivation drives autonomous behavior in fruit flies by combining whole-brain recordings with a neuromechanical digital twin. It shows that a hierarchical policy selecting from low‑level motor primitives, trained with 20 intrinsic motivation algorithms, can reproduce fly locomotor statistics and internal representations of future actions. The DIAYN algorithm, which maximizes behavioral entropy and sensory separability, best matches fly behavior and neural coding, capturing individual variability and interhemispheric kinematic encoding.
Animals have a remarkable capacity for autonomy---driven by intrinsic motivation---without external sensory cues or extrinsic objectives, yet the computational mechanisms behind this ability largely r...
SpikeMoE introduces a spike-based k‑WTA router that uses lateral inhibition and refractory periods to select the top‑K experts based on discrete spike counts, inspired by hippocampal CA1 competition. The framework combines spiking neural network dynamics with mixture‑of‑experts conditional computation and adds a two‑stage missing‑modality module for robust multimodal processing. Experiments on vision, language, and multimodal tasks show that SpikeMoE matches or surpasses ANN baselines while offering energy‑efficient performance.