Presentation
Exploration and goal-directed navigation are essential behaviours for an agent operating in an environment. Animals have evolved the ability to construct rich representations of their surroundings, forming personalized cognitive maps. In the brain, this process takes place in the hippocampus, where spatially tuned neurons encode patterns of internal states and external observations. Notably, this occurs dynamically and in real time, unlike standard deep learning and reinforcement learning models, which require large amounts of data and extensive training.
In this work, we develop a bio-inspired neural network relying on synaptic plasticity and neuromodulation. The model is able to form online an internal spatial map, enabling an agent equipped with a simple decision policy to explore new environments and navigate to previously visited locations.
Speaker
Krubeal Danieli is a PhD Candidate at the Centre for Integrative Neuroplasticity (CINPLA), Department of Biosciences. Academically, his ambition is to model intelligence and its underlying dynamics, at the boundary between computational neuroscience and AI.
Program
11:30 – Doors open and lunch is served
12:00 – "Bio-Inspired AI: Flexible Navigation with Neuromodulated Cognitive Maps" by Krubeal Danieli (PhD Candidate, Department of Biosciences)
This event is open for all students, PhD candidates, postdocs, and everyone else who is interested in the topic. No registration needed.
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