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Algorithmic insights on continual learning from fruit flies
Yang Shen, Sanjoy Dasgupta, Saket Navlakha
Continual learning in computational systems is challenging due to catastrophic forgetting. We discovered a two layer neural circuit in the fruit fly olfactory system that addresses…
Can a Fruit Fly Learn Word Embeddings?
Yuchen Liang, Chaitanya K. Ryali, Benjamin Hoover +4
The mushroom body of the fruit fly brain is one of the best studied systems in neuroscience. At its core it consists of a population of Kenyon cells, which receive inputs from mult…
Improving Similarity Search with High-dimensional Locality-sensitive Hashing
Jaiyam Sharma, Saket Navlakha
We propose a new class of data-independent locality-sensitive hashing (LSH) algorithms based on the fruit fly olfactory circuit. The fundamental difference of this approach is that…
Using inspiration from synaptic plasticity rules to optimize traffic flow in distributed engineered networks
Jonathan Y. Suen, Saket Navlakha
Controlling the flow and routing of data is a fundamental problem in many distributed networks, including transportation systems, integrated circuits, and the Internet. In the brai…
Distributed Gradient Descent in Bacterial Food Search
Shashank Singh, Sabrina Rashid, Zhicheng Long +4
Communication and coordination play a major role in the ability of bacterial cells to adapt to ever changing environments and conditions. Recent work has shown that such coordinati…
Network Archaeology: Uncovering Ancient Networks from Present-day Interactions
Saket Navlakha, Carl Kingsford
Often questions arise about old or extinct networks. What proteins interacted in a long-extinct ancestor species of yeast? Who were the central players in the Last.fm social networ…