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20182023
most citedOn the Opportunities and Risks of Foundation Models

2.3k citations · 2.5k across the 9 of their papers we have counts for

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11 papers

cs.LG2023★ 157 cited

HyenaDNA: Long-Range Genomic Sequence Modeling at Single Nucleotide Resolution

Eric Nguyen, Michael Poli, Marjan Faizi +10

Genomic (DNA) sequences encode an enormous amount of information for gene regulation and protein synthesis. Similar to natural language models, researchers have proposed foundation…

cs.LG2023★ 6 cited

Simple Hardware-Efficient Long Convolutions for Sequence Modeling

Daniel Y. Fu, Elliot L. Epstein, Eric Nguyen +5

State space models (SSMs) have high performance on long sequence modeling but require sophisticated initialization techniques and specialized implementations for high quality and r…

cs.RO2022★ 5 cited

Leveraging Large (Visual) Language Models for Robot 3D Scene Understanding

William Chen, Siyi Hu, Rajat Talak +1

Abstract semantic 3D scene understanding is a problem of critical importance in robotics. As robots still lack the common-sense knowledge about household objects and locations of a…

q-bio.NC2022★ 19 cited

Self-Supervised Learning of Brain Dynamics from Broad Neuroimaging Data

Armin W. Thomas, Christopher Ré, Russell A. Poldrack

Self-supervised learning techniques are celebrating immense success in natural language processing (NLP) by enabling models to learn from broad language data at unprecedented scale…

q-bio.NC2022★ 1 cited

Differentiable programming for functional connectomics

Rastko Ciric, Armin W. Thomas, Oscar Esteban +1

Mapping the functional connectome has the potential to uncover key insights into brain organisation. However, existing workflows for functional connectomics are limited in their ad…

q-bio.NC2022★ 1 cited

Comparing interpretation methods in mental state decoding analyses with deep learning models

Armin W. Thomas, Christopher Ré, Russell A. Poldrack

Deep learning (DL) models find increasing application in mental state decoding, where researchers seek to understand the mapping between mental states (e.g., perceiving fear or joy…

q-bio.NC2021★ 3 cited

Evaluating deep transfer learning for whole-brain cognitive decoding

Armin W. Thomas, Ulman Lindenberger, Wojciech Samek +1

Research in many fields has shown that transfer learning (TL) is well-suited to improve the performance of deep learning (DL) models in datasets with small numbers of samples. This…

cs.LG2021★ 4 cited

Challenges for cognitive decoding using deep learning methods

Armin W. Thomas, Christopher Ré, Russell A. Poldrack

In cognitive decoding, researchers aim to characterize a brain region's representations by identifying the cognitive states (e.g., accepting/rejecting a gamble) that can be identif…

cs.LG2021★ 2.3k cited

On the Opportunities and Risks of Foundation Models

Rishi Bommasani, Drew A. Hudson, Ehsan Adeli +111

AI is undergoing a paradigm shift with the rise of models (e.g., BERT, DALL-E, GPT-3) that are trained on broad data at scale and are adaptable to a wide range of downstream tasks.…

eess.IV2019

Deep Transfer Learning For Whole-Brain fMRI Analyses

Armin W. Thomas, Klaus-Robert Müller, Wojciech Samek

The application of deep learning (DL) models to the decoding of cognitive states from whole-brain functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) data is often hindered by the small s…

cs.LG2018

Analyzing Neuroimaging Data Through Recurrent Deep Learning Models

Armin W. Thomas, Hauke R. Heekeren, Klaus-Robert Müller +1

The application of deep learning (DL) models to neuroimaging data poses several challenges, due to the high dimensionality, low sample size and complex temporo-spatial dependency s…