The Sensorium 2023 competition is over. Here are the winning teams: 🥇IRomul 🥈YuZhu 🥉dunedin All winners used custom architectures. To learn more about their approaches, join our in-person workshop at NeurIPS on Friday, Dec 15, 2023. 🗓️ 1/4

NeurIPS Sensorium Competition workshop is happening on Friday from 1:30–4:30 in room 357. Explore with us the state of the art and future of predictive models of neural responses. Keynotes by @dyamins, Colin Conwell and @s_y_chung

To be a presenter - please send your abstract (max. 250 words, plus names and affiliations) to [email protected]  as pdf before Nov 23, 23:59, Anywhere on Earth. Abstracts will be reviewed by workshop organizers for topic relevancy 3/3

Topics include (but not limited to): - Architectures for 🧠 modelling - Increasing interpretability of neural predictive models -💡Strategies for extracting biological insights from DL - Metric 📏 & test set design for evaluation 2/3

⏰Just a week⏰  left to present your neuroscience poster as a part of NeurIPS Sensorium Competition workshop. Join the brilliant 💎 talks and show your finding to the neuroscience community on Dec 15th  1/3

❗To present a poster please send your abstract (max. 250 words, plus names and afiliations) to [email protected]  as pdf before Nov 23, 23:59, Anywhere on Earth. Abstracts will be reviewed by workshop organizers for topic relevancy. 4/4

You can contribute to the workshop with a poster. Topics include (but not limited to): - Architectures for 🧠modelling - Increasing interpretability of neural predictive models -💡Strategies for extracting biological insights from DL - Metric📏& test set design for evaluation 3/4

The workshop includes three keynote speakers and a poster session. Meet our brilliant 💎 keynotes speakers: 🎓 SueYeon Chung 🧑‍🏫 Daniel L. K. Yamins 🧠 Colin Conwell We are excited to meet the computational neuroscience community and discuss how to improve brain modelling. 2/4

We had some issues with the competition website, which ar e now all fixed. If you had trouble submitting in the past, please try again!

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📢 Deadline extension for our Sensorium competition to Oct. 15! One more month to join us in finding the best predictive model for neural activity in the mouse primary visual cortex! sensorium-competition.net

@patrickmineault @KordingLab @kendmil @xaqlab @JamesJDiCarlo @dyamins @jpillowtime @BernsteinNeuro @TimKietzmann @jakhmack @CellTypist @bethgelab @KonstantinWille

Thanks to funding from @ERC_Research, @dfg_public, @NIH, @BMBF_Bund, @IARPAnews, who supported this work. 7/7

Joint organization with labs of @AToliasLab/@AndreasTolias, @sinzlab and @alxecker. Also including technical support from deeplake @activeloop, @gwdg, @uniGoettingen. 6/7

Participating is easy: We provide the raw data as well as ready to use PyTorch dataloaders and code for baseline models in our starting kit here: github.com/ecker-lab/sensori… 5/7

The competition is already underway — join to find the best performing model to predict mouse V1 responses to dynamic stimuli! For more information about #Sensorium2023, check our website sensorium-competition.net and follow @SensoriumComp 4/7

In addition to the main track for predicting responses to natural videos, this year we test how well models generalize in a bonus track with out-of-domain videos.  3/7

This year’s competition includes a brand new, large-scale dataset with responses of over >38,000 neurons in mouse V1 to hundreds of videos 📽️, replacing the static images from 2022. How you handle the new temporal dimension ⌛️ will be a major part of this year’s challenge! 2/7

Do you want to understand how the brain 🧠 dynamically processes visual stimuli? Join #Sensorium2023 at #NeurIPS2023, where your dynamic model competes 🏆 to predict tens of thousands of neurons in early mouse visual system! 🐭 1/7