A Unified, Scalable Framework for Neural Population Decoding — mentioned by rkp8000

Sat, 15 Mar 2025 17:32:24 GMT

There are a few folks working on this in neuroscience, e.g. training transformers to "decode" neural activity (https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.16046). It's still pretty new and a bit unclear what the most promising path forward is, but will be interesting to see where things go. One challenge that gets brought up a lot is that neuroscience data is often high-dimensional and with limited samples (since it's traditionally been quite expensive to record neurons for extended periods), which is a fairly different regime from the very large data sets typically used to train LLMs, etc.

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A Unified, Scalable Framework for Neural Population Decoding — mentioned by rkp8000