Fernando Rosas 🦋
@_fernando_rosas
All posts on the blue sky | Emergence, synergy, brains, AI safety, and mental health
Preprint time: “Software in the natural world: A computational approach to emergence in complex multi-level systems” arxiv.org/abs/2402.09090 A rigorous framework that not only identifies *when* emergence takes place, but explains *how* this happens computationally
📺 More Singapore Alignment Workshop talks are live! Learn from @furongh @tzhang1989 @jiaming_pku @Animesh43061078 @shi_weiyan @dongyp13 @cassidy_laidlaw @pinyuchenTW @BaoyuanWu_ + Robin Staes-Polet, Huiqi Deng & Xiaoyuan Yi 🔗👇
Since we can view higher-order interactions as homotopies, can we track coherent relationships (invariance under continuous morphisms) via generalised 'cycles' of functorial constructions (operads, simplicital c, homtop coherent nerves) for detecting patterns and hole bounds?
Finally published: “Explosive neural networks via higher-order interactions in curved statistical manifolds” nature.com/articles/s4146… Enhancing the capabilities of recurrent neural networks by deforming their geometry!
Finally published: “Explosive neural networks via higher-order interactions in curved statistical manifolds” nature.com/articles/s4146… Enhancing the capabilities of recurrent neural networks by deforming their geometry!
At #ALIFE2025 we are proud to be hosting 14 different workshops this year, covering a range of ALIFE topics & initiatives, & thank the organizers for choosing to bring their workshop ideas to the conference. Details: 2025.alife.org/program Let's dive into them.
One for Journal Club maybe 👇
Finally published: “Explosive neural networks via higher-order interactions in curved statistical manifolds” nature.com/articles/s4146… Enhancing the capabilities of recurrent neural networks by deforming their geometry!
Main point of this paper: High-order interactions in curved manifolds. This is closer to Deep Manifold theory than any of the 1,000+ papers I’ve reviewed. I’ve collected a list of related “high order” concepts: High-order Regularization High-order Feature Interaction High-order…
I’m building a new team at @GoogleDeepMind to work on Open-Ended Discovery! We’re looking for strong Research Scientists and Research Engineers to help us push the frontier of autonomously discovering novel artifacts such as new knowledge, capabilities, or algorithms, in an…
𝗧𝗼𝗽-𝗱𝗼𝘄𝗻 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗯𝗼𝘁𝘁𝗼𝗺-𝘂𝗽 𝗻𝗲𝘂𝗿𝗼𝘀𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲: 𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗹𝗮𝘀𝗵 𝗼𝗳 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝗰𝘂𝗹𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲𝘀 nature.com/articles/s4158… Small contribution in piece by @_fernando_rosas and colleagues on how we need both types of research culture
Top-down and bottom-up neuroscience: "Recognizing the validity of both approaches dispels misunderstandings and unnecessary tension and promotes constructive interactions." 👌🏼 nature.com/articles/s4158…
Finally published: “Top-down and bottom-up neuroscience: overcoming the clash of research cultures” nature.com/articles/s41... Looking for ways to better understand different neuroscientific perspectives and enable productive collaborations
Really love those visualisations! Analytic construction vs iterative refinement
Finally published: “Top-down and bottom-up neuroscience: overcoming the clash of research cultures” nature.com/articles/s41... Looking for ways to better understand different neuroscientific perspectives and enable productive collaborations
Hi all, if you're attending ICML (Vancouver) or UAI (Rio de Janeiro), I'm happy to share some news from the lab! Please check it out -- and feel free to drop by or shoot me a line if any of it sounds intriguing. 1/5 "Counterfactual Graphical Models: Constraints and Inference"…
Wow 🤯
very importantly: "We can confirm that Google DeepMind has reached the much-desired milestone, earning 35 out of a possible 42 points — a gold medal score. Their solutions were astonishing in many respects. IMO graders found them to be clear, precise and most of them easy to…
New 2 year position as an Imaging Data Infrastructure Specialist Located a the Hunter Medical Research Institute (HMRI) & the University of Newcastle (UoN), in partnership with the National Imaging Facility (NIF), Apply here: seek.com.au/job/85537666
Does a hive of bees constitute a unified agent in its own right? 🐝+🐝+... =🐝? 🤔 Using a 2D cellular automata model of bee movement dynamics, recent PhD graduate Dr @Ivan_Shpurov revealed time series signatures that support this collective integration. arxiv.org/abs/2507.11592
This review looks awesome! 👇🏽
🌀 Universality in Computable Dynamical Systems: Old and New Can dynamical systems compute? From Turing-complete fluids to Topological Kleene Field Theories, we explore how dynamics encodes computation—past, present, and future. arxiv.org/abs/2507.10725