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Evo 2′s Perception of Single Nucleotide Substitutions in the Genes of Two Plant Model Organisms

Although DNA Large Language Models (DNA-LLMs) offer a path to decoding genetic complexity, our ability to evaluate these models is constrained by our incomplete understanding of the very same genetic ...

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Hello #sleeppeeps, our latest work on AI for dream report analysis is finally out (with attached pre-trained models). In the work, we show how small generative LLMs can be easily trained to efficiently annotate dream reports in a more dynamic manner. link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

PreDA: Prefix-Based Dream Reports Annotation with Generative Language Models

Dream reports are recollections of our experiences while asleep, and have strong research and clinical value. Since their analysis can be extremely time-consuming, researchers have adopted multiple ty...

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💤𝗛𝗼𝘁 𝗼𝗳𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗽𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘀💤 Our findings indicate that 𝘀𝘂𝗯𝗷𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝘀𝗹𝗲𝗲𝗽 𝗱𝗲𝗽𝘁𝗵 is not solely determined by reduced brain activity. 𝗜𝗺𝗺𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗱𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗺 𝗲𝘅𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲𝘀 appear to maintain the 𝘀𝘂𝗯𝗷𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝘀𝗲𝗻𝘀𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗱𝗲𝗲𝗽 𝘀𝗹𝗲𝗲𝗽 as 𝗵𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗼𝘀𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗰 𝘀𝗹𝗲𝗲𝗽 𝗽𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘀𝘂𝗿𝗲 naturally declines across the night. dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...

Immersive NREM2 dreaming preserves subjective sleep depth against declining sleep pressure

Perceived sleep depth is generally thought to reflect reduced brain activity. This study shows that this relationship weakens during dreaming, suggesting that dreaming helps sustain the subjective exp...

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👋 #sleeppeeps, this weekend I’ll be at the DxE simposyum at MIT to present some preliminary work at the intersection of AI and neuroscience to trace #dream event in event #EEG signal. Come say hi at the event, or drop a line if you’re in the Boston area and wanna chat 😀 dxe.framer.website

Dream x Engineering Symposium

A gathering of world leaders in sleep and dream science exploring how we can influence dreaming with precision to improve well-being, accelerate learning, and treat clinical conditions.

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All the models are back online, and the full paper should be out soon too 😃 huggingface.co/collections/... #sleeppees #dream

Lorenzo Bertolini@lorenzoscottb.bsky.social · last yr.

Introducing PreDA (prefix-based dream annotation), a set of generative LLMs tuned to annotate dream reports for 6 Hall & Van De Castle features! The paper will be presented at LOD 25 conference later this year as a long contribution. Models available here huggingface.co/jrc-ai #sleeppeeps #dream

Unserious post: Now that (some) #AI researchers and engineers have rockstars-level salaries and notoriety, will they also have stage (or, better, paper) names?

Made it alive and well to the last day of #ACL2025NLP? Hats off you to you (well…us…)!!! Time to collect the last energy and pass by our poster this afternoon 😀

Lorenzo Bertolini@lorenzoscottb.bsky.social · last yr.

I’ll be at #ACL2025NLP next week, with a paper for the #GeBNLP workshop! In this work, we tested the ability of a task-level explainability method to trace biological-sex biases in medical image classification, using general and biomedical VLMs. @aclmeeting.bsky.social @genderbiasnlp.bsky.social

Not pressing _this_ work at #ACL2025NLP, but always happy to chat NLP/AI for dream analysis 😴🤖

Lorenzo Bertolini@lorenzoscottb.bsky.social · last yr.

👋 #sleeppeeps In this new work, we show how multiple LLMs appear to easily process #dreams, and reflect previously observed differences in reports (e.g., male-female, blind-sighted). We also argue for caution linking dreams and bizarreness when using #LLMs www.frontiersin.org/journals/sle...

I’ll be at #ACL2025NLP next week, with a paper for the #GeBNLP workshop! In this work, we tested the ability of a task-level explainability method to trace biological-sex biases in medical image classification, using general and biomedical VLMs. @aclmeeting.bsky.social @genderbiasnlp.bsky.social

👋 #sleeppeeps In this new work, we show how multiple LLMs appear to easily process #dreams, and reflect previously observed differences in reports (e.g., male-female, blind-sighted). We also argue for caution linking dreams and bizarreness when using #LLMs www.frontiersin.org/journals/sle...

Frontiers | Dreams are more “predictable” than you think

IntroductionA growing body of work has used machine learning and AI tools to analyse dream reports, and compare them to other textual content. Since these to...

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Happy to share that our work on #conformalprediction for pulmonary nodule detection has been accepted for presentation at COPA 25 conference!

arxiv cs.CV@arxiv-cs-cv.bsky.social · 2y ago

Roel Hulsman, Valentin Comte, Lorenzo Bertolini, Tobias Wiesenthal, Antonio Puertas Gallardo, Mario Ceresa Conformal Risk Control for Pulmonary Nodule Detection https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.20167

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An epidemiological knowledge graph extracted from the World Health Organization’s Disease Outbreak News - Scientific Data

Scientific Data - An epidemiological knowledge graph extracted from the World Health Organization’s Disease Outbreak News

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Introducing PreDA (prefix-based dream annotation), a set of generative LLMs tuned to annotate dream reports for 6 Hall & Van De Castle features! The paper will be presented at LOD 25 conference later this year as a long contribution. Models available here huggingface.co/jrc-ai #sleeppeeps #dream

Roel Hulsman, Valentin Comte, Lorenzo Bertolini, Tobias Wiesenthal, Antonio Puertas Gallardo, Mario Ceresa Conformal Risk Control for Pulmonary Nodule Detection https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.20167

💤 As I approach the end of my PostDoc at IMT Lucca, I’m looking for a new job! 🧠 Ideally: Research roles related to sleep/dream/consciousness/cognitive science. 🤖 Open to scientific writing & data analysis, too. 📍 Milan, nearby areas, or Switzerland. DMs open 💃🏼

Contribute to our Research Topic "Understanding conscious experiences during sleep"! 💤 🧠 💤 Deadlines: Manuscript Summary Submission: 20.12.24 Manuscript Submission: 28.02.25 www.frontiersin.org/research-top... #consciousexperiences #sleep #REMdreams #NREMdreams #DreamEngineering #Hypnagogia

Understanding conscious experiences during sleep

Emerging research suggests that elements of awareness persist throughout various sleep stages, challenging conventional notions of unconsciousness during sleep. This dynamic and enigmatic interplay of...

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thinking of calling this "The Illusion Illusion" (more examples below)

My deep learning course at the University of Geneva is available on-line. 1000+ slides, ~20h of screen-casts. Full of examples in PyTorch. fleuret.org/dlc/ And my "Little Book of Deep Learning" is available as a phone-formatted pdf (nearing 700k downloads!) fleuret.org/lbdl/

It's Sunday morning so taking a minute for a nerdy thread (on math, tokenizers and LLMs) of the work of our intern Garreth By adding a few lines of code to the base Llama 3 tokenizer, he got a free boost in arithmetic performance 😮 [thread]

Reproducing my thread from the Other Place on our Lancet paper 'Long COVID - a clinical update'. Coauthors Manoj Sivan, Alice Perlowski, Janko Nikolich. 1/ www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...?

Long COVID: a clinical update

Post-COVID-19 condition (also known as long COVID) is generally defined as symptoms persisting for 3 months or more after acute COVID-19. Long COVID can affect multiple organ systems and lead to sever...

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E quindi come si sta da queste parti?

Work in progress -- suggestions for NLP-ers based in the EU/Europe & already on Bluesky very welcome! go.bsky.app/NZDc31B

Hi alI quick dataset question: I’m looking for a collection of histopathological images (no specific requirements wrt organ/disease/task) which includes metadata on participants’ (approximate) age. Any suggestion?

As a computational social scientist I could not miss to follow this beautiful creature: the BlueSky social network during its growth in the last hours! In this video I show just a snapshot for about 210k users and their 500k-ish connections #academicsky Zoom in the next post youtu.be/JcmYZtWGnjQ

The “great Xodus” and the growth of BlueSky

YouTube video by Manlio De Domenico

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Nice to see so many new #sleeppeeps on #SleepSky! I’m just gonna leave this here again 😅 (btw the paper and DReAMy abstract have now been published!)

Lorenzo Bertolini@lorenzoscottb.bsky.social · 3y ago

Hello, #SleepSky, #SleepPeeps, and #dream researchers. It's nice to see many of you here, and reciprocating the interest of a curious #NLP/#AI researcher. So I thought to do a quick thread about my interested dreams and sleep, and what I've done so far!

Papers at #EMNLP2024 #1 Statistical Uncertainty in Word Embeddings: GloVe-V Neural models, from word vectors through transformers, use point estimate representations. They can have large variances, which often loom large in CSS applications. Tue Nov 12 15:15-15:30 Flagler

New here? Interested in AI/ML? Check out these great starter packs! AI: go.bsky.app/SipA7it RL: go.bsky.app/3WPHcHg Women in AI: go.bsky.app/LaGDpqg NLP: go.bsky.app/SngwGeS AI and news: go.bsky.app/5sFqVNS You can also search all starter packs here: blueskydirectory.com/starter-pack...

How do language models organize concepts and their properties? Do they use taxonomies to infer new properties, or infer based on concept similarities? Apparently, both! 🌟 New paper with my fantastic collaborators @amuuueller.bsky.social and @kanishka.bsky.social

Sad to miss the #neuroscience of #dreaming summers school and the opportunity to chat about #NLP and #LLMs for #dream research. If you're interested, check out dreamy's tutorials on the Git page (also available on Google Colab) 😀 github.com/lorenzoscott...

GitHub - lorenzoscottb/DReAMy: DReAMy: a library for dream-reports annotation methods with python, NLP, and LLMs

DReAMy: a library for dream-reports annotation methods with python, NLP, and LLMs - lorenzoscottb/DReAMy

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👋 #SleepPeeps, happy to share DReAMy's new feature! Do you need to anonymise #dream reports? We've got you covered, with anonymized, a 1-line solution to find and replace entities. Try it out in our tutorial section, or online colab.research.google.com/drive/14hHRRC3…