2 papers
q-bio.NC2026
Discovering Functionally Selective Brain Regions with a Deep Topographic Multimodal Model
Badr AlKhamissi, Johannes Mehrer, Lara Marinov +3
Nearby neurons in cortex share similar response profiles, producing systematic spatial organization across sensory and cognitive systems. Recent topographic models reproduce aspect…
cs.CL2026
Not-Just-Scaling Laws: Towards a Better Understanding of the Downstream Impact of Language Model Design Decisions
Emmy Liu, Amanda Bertsch, Lintang Sutawika +9
Improvements in language model capabilities are often attributed to increasing model size or training data, but in some cases smaller models trained on curated data or with differe…