3 papers
cs.CL2021
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…
cs.LG2018
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…
q-bio.QM2016
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…