Excited to be at #CCN2026 in NYC! I'll be presenting our spotlight poster, Topo-Omni, with @hannesmehrer.bsky.social 🧠 📍 Poster F14 — Session F 🗓️ Thursday, Aug 6 Come by if you're around, we'd love to talk about how our multimodal model can discover functionally selective brain regions!
"So, you have a highly predictive model, now what?" At this #CCN2026 event on Wed, 5 Aug, 4pm at NYU Skirball Theatre I will present work on using ANN brain models for visual prostheses (tinyurl.com/modelguidedm...) and for dyslexia (tinyurl.com/neuroaidysle..., first author: Melika Honarmand).
🚨 NEW PREPRINT Videos strongly shape activity across the visual cortex. But can we design videos that maximally drive specific brain regions? We present NEvo 🧬🧠 — a neural-guided evolutionary framework that synthesizes videos to maximally activate target visual ROIs. (1/10)
🧠 What's the best way to spend compute & neural data to build brain-aligned models? Our new ICML 2026 paper charts the scaling laws across 8 neural datasets & 600+ vision models. 👇 🌐 multimodal-brain-scaling.epfl.ch w/ @davidtyt.bsky.social & @mschrimpf.bsky.social
🚨 New Preprint! 🧠 We gave an AI model one simple rule: rearrange your neurons so that nearby ones respond alike. We never told it what a face, a voice, or a sentence was. It grew brain-like maps for all three anyway. 🧵👇 🌐 Website: topo-omni.epfl.ch
So why build toward a brain-encoding foundation model? → Simulate fMRI responses to sensory stimuli → Insights about the brain → Path toward clinical applications MIRAGE is our first step. 🧠 More on the project site: mirage-brain.epfl.ch w/ @akgokce.bsky.social & @mschrimpf.bsky.social
Badr AlKhamissi@bkhmsi.bsky.social · 2mo ago🧠 When you watch a movie, your brain blends sight, sound, and speech into a single experience. Should models of the brain blend them too, or keep the senses separate until the very end? We built MIRAGE to find out. It sets a new SOTA for predicting whole-brain fMRI from movies. 🧵
+ we've a demo: play a clip and watch MIRAGE's predicted whole-brain activity light up in sync 🧠🍿 📄 Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2605.29850 💻 Code: github.com/epflneuroail... 🤗 Model: huggingface.co/epfl-neuroai... 🌐 Demo: mirage-brain.epfl.ch Joint work w/ @akgokce.bsky.social & @mschrimpf.bsky.social
🧠 When you watch a movie, your brain blends sight, sound, and speech into a single experience. Should models of the brain blend them too, or keep the senses separate until the very end? We built MIRAGE to find out. It sets a new SOTA for predicting whole-brain fMRI from movies. 🧵
🧠 New preprint: we show that model-guided microstimulation can steer monkey visual behavior. Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2510.03684 🧵
🧠 NEW PREPRINT Many-Two-One: Diverse Representations Across Visual Pathways Emerge from A Single Objective www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Many-Two-One: Diverse Representations Across Visual Pathways Emerge from A Single Objective
How the human brain supports diverse behaviours has been debated for decades. The canonical view divides visual processing into distinct "what" and "where/how" streams – however, their origin and inde...
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AI vision is insanely good nowadays—but is it really like human vision or something else entirely? In our new pre-print, we pinpoint a fundamental visual mechanism that's trivial for humans yet causes most models to fail spectacularly. Let's dive in👇🧠 [https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.05253]
