Adaptive learning

…applications, including continual and adaptive learning, forgetting mitigation, representation learning, explainability, neuromorphic computation, computational neuroscience and multimodal models. Research papers connect theoretical methods with applications across science and engineering. Review is double-blind. Standard submissions use six IEEE-format pages; up to four extra pages incur fees. Accepted authors must submit final papers and pay the corresponding registration fees by 12 April 2027, 23:59 AoE. Remote authors may supply prer

Animals make beneficial decisions for survival by evaluating positive or negative experiences induced by environmental stimuli. Aversive experiences play an important role in helping animals avoid dangerous environments and reduce harm. For instance, the aversive valence led the animals to concede defeat during fights, minimizing harm to individuals and increasing their chances for survival. The ventral habenula-raphe circuit has been demonstrated to be involved in the evaluation of aversive valence in active avoidance test. Both the neural activity in the ventral habenula (vHb) and raphe incr

We never stop learning when we suffer, but we all learn in unique ways. Adaptive learning helps us cope with adversities, whereas maladaptive learning could hinder coping and lead to more suffering. Indeed, maladaptive aversive learning is thought to be associated with both mental health disorders and chronic pain. However, we currently lack tools to quantify aversive learning at scale. We have developed a suite of game-like cognitive tests which helps us tease apart individual differences in aversive learning, which can be performed by anyone, in the comfort of their home, using a touch based

…from memory-modification and adaptive learning to attentional shift and exploration. However, different studies refer to different definitions of ‘surprise’, and it remains unclear how these different definitions relate (1) to each other and (2) to different phenomena attributed to surprise. To address the 1st issue, we identify 10 mathematical definitions of surprise in a unifying framework and show how they relate to each other. Importantly, we classify these definitions into four main categories: (i) ‘prediction s