Danyal
@DanAkarca
Comp neuro & AI fellow @imperialcollege @schmidtfutures & @cambridge_uni, intelligent artificial & natural systems
New preprint! Why are long-range connectomic interactions in the cortex dominant in shaping dynamics in some experiments but apparently negligible in others? We (w/ Rishi M, @eli_j_muller) address this by studying a new hybrid model of cortical dynamics. arxiv.org/abs/2506.19800
I'm hiring a @ARIA_Research funded position at @imperialcollege @ImperialEEE. Broad in scope + flexible on topics! Exciting projects on intersection of neural networks & new AI accelerators, from a HW/SW co-design perspective. Join us 🚀: imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-jo…
thread on the new paper: The Serial Scaling Hypothesis joint work with: @phizaz, @YutongBAI1002, Kananart
UK stand up tall!
Isambard-AI was turned on by Tech Sec Peter Kyle today, after being built in a year on what was a car park in Bristol and is now being offered up to all UK scientists and some businesses to use its compute power… insiders told me for the first time it had enough training power…
this was a blast — great job @DanAkarca @markdhumphries @neuralreckoning (and yes, london was legitimately hot enough that I wore shorts while giving a talk)
We had an incredible gathering at UK Neural Computation 2025 @imperialcollege last week 🇬🇧 Macron missed out... Some of the UK's very best at the frontier of theoretical and empirical neural computation: The timing really couldn't be better for impact at scale bridging theory to…
Can transformers analyze code efficiently? ✅ Yes. We prove transformers efficiently handle real compiler tasks (AST construction, symbol resolution, type infer) using only log size—while RNNs require linear size (in input length). Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2410.14706 #COLM2025
I’m excited about this: 12 month fellowship for AI engineers to work on some of the biggest challenges in government👇
We want the UK's top AI experts to join us for a 12-month fellowship building cutting-edge AI tools for public services - funded by @Meta's $1m grant to @TuringInst. From national security translation to planning approvals - deliver the Plan for Change with open-source AI.
Excited to share Energy-Based Transformers (EBTs), which allows you to implement system 2 thinking in any modality! EBTs formulate reasoning as an energy optimization problem, allowing models to internally think without complexities like CoT or multiple recurrent latents.
How can we unlock generalized reasoning? ⚡️Introducing Energy-Based Transformers (EBTs), an approach that out-scales (feed-forward) transformers and unlocks generalized reasoning/thinking on any modality/problem without rewards. TLDR: - EBTs are the first model to outscale the…
Microsoft claims their new AI framework diagnoses 4x better than doctors. I'm a medical doctor and I actually read the paper. Here's my perspective on why this is both impressive AND misleading ... 🧵
Tickets for UKNC25 @imperialcollege close tomorrow 5pm BST! Register: neuralcomputation.uk/registration.h…
Incredibly excited for the UK Neural Computation Conference 2025 @ Imperial College London, 9th - 11th July (main event 10th - 11th) 🇬🇧. World leading scientists working in brain computation - from advanced experimental neuroscience to AI and mathematical modelling (and all…
🚨🚨Today we begin the search for @ARIA_research's next CEO It's not often you get to hire for a role that you believe is not only someone's dream job, but genuinely one of the highest impact opportunities in the world... but this is it.. 🧵🧵
Big news: we’re kicking off the search for ARIA’s next CEO. This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to lead one of the most ambitious orgs in science and tech. 1/8
📢 £18m grant opportunity in Safeguarded AI: we're looking to catalyse the creation of a new UK-based non-profit to lead groundbreaking machine learning research for provably safe AI. Learn more and apply by 1 October 2025: link.aria.org.uk/ta2-phase2-x
Incredibly excited for the UK Neural Computation Conference 2025 @ Imperial College London, 9th - 11th July (main event 10th - 11th) 🇬🇧. World leading scientists working in brain computation - from advanced experimental neuroscience to AI and mathematical modelling (and all…
🤖We are hiring a PDRA on soft electronics to work in our @ARIA_research project. If you are interested in commercialising advanced sensor technologies for #dexterous #robots, come work with us! @cambridge_ee @Cambridge_Eng Link: jobs.ac.uk/job/DNK327/res… Deadline: 29 June 2025
We are making future #robots dexterous. Thank you @ARIA_research for funding and @UCamEnterprise for innovation support. We will soon hire a PDRA on soft electronics to take our technology to high TRL levels. Stay tuned for the advert! @Cambridge_Eng @ChurchillCol @rehtaf_doG
Full draft of the SLAM Handbook now released --- available as a free PDF, with a printed version coming soon. Now including Part 3, "From SLAM to Spatial AI" (I knew it would catch on eventually), with contributions from @HideMatsu82 and me. #SpatialAI github.com/SLAM-Handbook-…