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The LDS model is built on the state-space model and assumes latent factors evolvewith linear dynamics. Ontheother hand, GPFAmodels thelatent vectors by non-parametric Gaussian processes.

Additionally,bGPFA uses automatic relevance determination to infer the dimensionality of neural activity directly from the training data during optimization.

OpenAI Staffer Quits, Alleging Company's Economic Research Is Drifting Into AI Advocacy Four sources close to the situation claim OpenAI has become hesitant to publish research on the negative impact of AI. The company says it has only expanded the economic research team's scope. OpenAI has allegedly become more guarded about publishing research that highlights the potentially negative impact that AI could have on the economy, four people familiar with the matter tell WIRED. The perceived pullback has contributed to the departure of at least two employees on OpenAI's economic research team in recent months, according to the same four people, who spoke to WIRED on the condition of anonymity. One of these employees, Tom Cunningham, left the company entirely in September after concluding it had become difficult to publish high-quality research, WIRED has learned.

Latent factor models have been widely used to analyze simultaneous recordings of spike trains from large, heterogeneous neural populations. These models assume the signal of interest in the population is a low-dimensional latent intensity that evolves over time, which is observed in high dimension via noisy point-process observations. These techniques have been well used to capture neural correlations across a population and to provide a smooth, denoised, and concise representation of high-dimensional spiking data. One limitation of many current models is that the observation model is assumed to be Poisson, which lacks the flexibility to capture under-and over-dispersion that is common in recorded neural data, thereby introducing bias into estimates of covariance. Here we develop the generalized count linear dynamical system, which relaxes the Poisson assumption by using a more general exponential family for count data. In addition to containing Poisson, Bernoulli, negative binomial, and other common count distributions as special cases, we show that this model can be tractably learned by extending recent advances in variational inference techniques. We apply our model to data from primate motor cortex and demonstrate performance improvements over state-of-the-art methods, both in capturing the variance structure of the data and in held-out prediction.

In this work, we introduce LangevinFlow, a sequential Varia-tional Auto-Encoder where the time evolution of latent variables is governed by the underdamped Langevin equation. Our approach incorporates physical priors -- such as inertia, damping, a learned potential function, and stochastic forces -- to represent both autonomous and non-autonomous processes in neural systems. Crucially, the potential function is parameterized as a network of locally coupled oscillators, biasing the model toward oscillatory and flow-like behaviors observed in biological neural populations. Our model features a recurrent encoder, a one-layer Transformer decoder, and Langevin dynamics in the latent space. Empirically, our method outperforms state-of-the-art baselines on synthetic neural populations generated by a Lorenz attractor, closely matching ground-truth firing rates. On the Neural Latents Benchmark (NLB), the model achieves superior held-out neuron likelihoods (bits per spike) and forward prediction accuracy across four challenging datasets. It also matches or surpasses alternative methods in decoding behavioral metrics such as hand velocity. Overall, this work introduces a flexible, physics-inspired, high-performing framework for modeling complex neural population dynamics and their unobserved influences.

Australian authors say they are "livid" and feel violated that their work was included in an allegedly pirated dataset of books Meta used to train its AI. In court filings in January it was alleged chief executive Mark Zuckerberg approved the use of the LibGen dataset – an online archive of books – to train the company's artificial intelligence models despite warnings from his AI executive team that it is a dataset "we know to be pirated". The Atlantic has published a searchable database where authors can type in their name to see what of their work is included in LibGen dataset. It includes books published by many Australian authors, including some by former prime ministers Malcolm Turnbull, Kevin Rudd, Julia Gillard and John Howard. Holden Sheppard, the author of Invisible Boys, a hit young adult novel that has been adapted into a series on Stan, said two of his books and two short stories were included.

While elephants have the reputation as animals who never forget, they may have some competition from some primates. Lemurs use their long-term memory in combination with smell and social cues to find hidden fruit. This technique may have deep evolutionary roots, according to a study published in the International Journal of Primatology. "Our study provides evidence that lemurs can integrate sensory information with ecological and social knowledge, which demonstrates their ability to consider multiple aspects of a problem," study co-author and New York University anthropologist Elena Cunningham said in a statement. Cunningham is a clinical professor of molecular pathobiology at NYU College of Dentistry.