Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit
@GatsbyUCL
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We study mathematical principles of learning, perception & action in brains & machines. Funded by Gatsby Charitable Foundation. Also on bluesky & mastodon.
London, United Kingdom
Joined September 2019
Interested in a #PhD in machine learning & theoretical neuroscience? Applications for 2026 entry to the Gatsby Unit PhD programme are now open! 💰 Fully-funded 4-year programme 🤝 Close links to @SWC_Neuro & @uclcsml ℹ️ https://t.co/QMeJ5bDxAt
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Online talk on Wednesday - looking forward to it!
How can we tell whether an action really causes a result and not just coincides with it? Don't miss out on this #AIforGood Discovery session with @ArthurGretton (@ucl) and moderator @Conrad__Philipp (@UniJena) to explore how #AI and causal modeling can help reveal the true
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Happy Hump Day! If you love Wednesday, you’ll dig this. Jenna Ortega. Wednesday Addams. Link in Bio ☝🏼
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⏰ Deadline approaching for our PhD programmes! 👋 Apply by 3 Nov to join us and immerse yourself in world-class research and vibrant city life! Gatsby Unit: https://t.co/Im1iRIcomA
@SWC_Neuro: https://t.co/zZwiM05vGg Joint:
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Looking forward to next week's Winter School on Causality and Explainable AI in Paris! https://t.co/eelOGH6fKv I'll be lecturing Friday 24 October on "causal effect estimation with context and confounders."
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Our seminar is back! The next seminar is Wednesday (Oct 22) and starts at 12:30pm UK time! Arthur Gretton from UCL / Google deepmind is going to talk about “Learning to Act in Noisy Contexts Using Deep Proxy Learning”! https://t.co/WIZ32HhI2G
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Applying to the #ELLISPhD Program? If you are selecting a Gatsby Unit faculty member as your main supervisor, don't forget to apply to the Gatsby Unit PhD Programme in parallel. Our deadline is 3 Nov 2025. 👉
ucl.ac.uk
Students study toward a PhD in machine learning or computational/theoretical neuroscience, with minor emphasis in the complementary field.
🎓 Ready to expand your horizons in #AI research? Do your PhD with 2 leading institutions across Europe & build your network with the Academic Track in the #ELLISPhD Program. Apply now via our central recruiting portal until Oct 31. 👉 All info: https://t.co/0Tq58uexHk
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Congratulations to all the new SWC & @GatsbyUCL PhD students for successfully completing Boot Camp! We are delighted to welcome you to the community. Students showcased their robots in our hotly anticipated annual @NoBlackBoxes Robot Competition 🦾⚽💻
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🙋Are you interested in bridging theory & experiments? Applications are now open for 2026 entry to the Gatsby Unit & SWC (@SWC_Neuro) joint PhD programme. Join us and be part of a vibrant research community! 💰 Fully-funded 4-year programme ℹ️ https://t.co/JKsQxrqeZR
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ProbNum 2025 Keynote 2 ``Gradient Flows on the Maximum Mean Discrepancy'' by @ArthurGretton ( @GatsbyUCL & @GoogleDeepMind ). Slides available here: https://t.co/7I2vEF4Pxr
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I’ll be speaking at ENUMATH conference (Sep 1st - Sep 5th) in Heidelberg at the “Approximation Theory meets Statistical Learning” minisymposium organized by Nicola Rares Franco, @nickhnelsen and Simone Brugiapaglia. Let’s grab a coffee if you’re there!
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Aeon is a new platform for continuous brain and behaviour research in naturalistic environments — already used in 15+ projects, including long-term social learning studies. 🔗 https://t.co/Cn6lufeU3n 📄 Preprint: https://t.co/gnFBvSa8vf
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🚀 Exciting Update! 🧠🎙️ The very first UniReps x @UCL_Neuro_AI Meetup will also be livestreamed! 📍 Join us in person at @UCL @SWC_Neuro or online on September 8, 2025. 🔗 Register now to attend in person or to receive the Zoom link: https://t.co/5vX6fGuGGP 📚 Learn more
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Sequential kernel embedding for mediated and time-varying dose response curves Appearing in Bernoulli: https://t.co/CVy0WlBrOy with preprint here: https://t.co/XKKeBg0lVN ...along with code! https://t.co/Shz8pHZIfA Rahul Singh, @ly9988
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📢 Job alert We are looking for a Postdoctoral Fellow to work with @ArthurGretton on creating statistically efficient causal and interaction models with the aim of elucidating cellular interactions. ⏰Deadline 27-Aug-2025 ℹ️
ucl.ac.uk
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New from @SWC_Neuro, @GatsbyUCL, @NeuroGEARS & @DataJoint: Aeon - an open-source platform combining long-term neural recording with naturalistic behavioural tracking in enriched habitats. 📑Preprint: https://t.co/gnFBvSa8vf 📄 Story behind the platform:
biorxiv.org
Ethological behaviours are a powerful tool for neuroscience since they leverage the robust neural computations shaped by the species’ evolution to study the neural basis of cognitive functions....
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🎓Thrilled to share I’ve officially defended my PhD!🥳 At @GatsbyUCL, my research explored how prior knowledge shapes neural representations. I’m deeply grateful to my mentors, @SaxeLab and Caswell Barry, my incredible collaborators, and everyone who supported me! Stay tuned!
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Representation learning for two-sample testing, at UAI 2025!
I am attending #UAI2025 in Rio with one poster on hypothesis testing. Please come and discuss with us if you also attend the conference! @xunyet @ArthurGretton 📍 Foyer, Room Copacabana A, Room Mar Azul (Wed 23rd Jul 16:00 pm — 18:30 pm) @UncertaintyInAI 📑 A Unified Data
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🥳 Congratulations to Rodrigo Carrasco-Davison on passing his PhD viva with minor corrections! 🎉 📜 Principles of Optimal Learning Control in Biological and Artificial Agents.
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Come chat about this at the poster @icmlconf, 11:00-13:30 on Wednesday in the West Exhibition Hall #W-902!
How does in-context learning emerge in attention models during gradient descent training? Sharing our new Spotlight paper @icmlconf: Training Dynamics of In-Context Learning in Linear Attention https://t.co/rr8T8ww5Kt Led by Yedi Zhang with @Aaditya6284 and Peter Latham
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Excited to share new work @icmlconf by Loek van Rossem exploring the development of computational algorithms in recurrent neural networks. Hear it live tomorrow, Oral 1D, Tues 14 Jul West Exhibition Hall C: https://t.co/zsnSlJ0rrc Paper: https://t.co/aZs7VZuFNg (1/11)
openreview.net
Even when massively overparameterized, deep neural networks show a remarkable ability to generalize. Research on this phenomenon has focused on generalization within distribution, via smooth...
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