Description
Leader of the group Machine Learning: Peter Grünwald.
Our research group focuses on how computer programs can learn from and understand data, and then make useful predictions based on it. These algorithms integrate insights from various fields, including statistics, artificial intelligence and neuroscience.
Machine-learning applications are increasingly part of every aspect of life, from speech recognition on cell phones to illness prediction in healthcare. One common problem is extremely polluted data, for which no single model can provide adequate explanations. At CWI we address this issue with statistical machine learning based on combining predictions from different models and experts in order to achieve reliable conclusions.
We also study how networks of neurons in the brain process information, and how modern deep-learning methods can benefit from neuroscience. We develop novel neural networks, like Deep Adaptive Spiking Neural Networks, and also theoretical models of neural learning and information processing in biology. Applications of our work range from low-energy consumption neural machine learning to neuroprosthetics, to increased insight into the question of how the brain works.
Vacancies
No vacancies currently.
News
CWI and INRIA use AI to better predict harmful solar storms
Extreme solar storms can have destructive effects on communications and electrical power grids. To improve space weather forecasting systems Mandar Chandorkar combined AI and data from space missions. He defends his thesis on 14 November.
The brain as a computer
On Wednesday 6 November 2019 Sander Bohte (CWI and UvA) will hold his inaugural lecture “the Brain as a computer” as a professor by special appointment of Cognitive Neurobiology.
Sander Bohté and Kees Oosterlee awarded with NWO Indo-Dutch funding
Sander Bohté (Machine Learning) and Kees Oosterlee (Scientific Computing) have been awarded with funding from NWO’s Indo-Dutch joint research programme for ICT.
Sander Bohté, professor by special appointment of Cognitive Neurobiology at UvA
Sander Bohté (1974) has been named professor by special appointment of Cognitive Neurobiology, specialising in Computational Neuroscience, at the University of Amsterdam (UvA)'s Faculty of Science. The chair was designated on behalf of the Science Plus Foundation (Stichting Bèta Plus). He will be combining his professorship with his position as senior researcher at CWI's Machine Learning group.
Current events
Symposium on Learning Algorithms for Spiking Neural Networks
- 2022-12-13T10:15:00+01:00
- 2022-12-13T13:00:00+01:00
Symposium on Learning Algorithms for Spiking Neural Networks
Start: 2022-12-13 10:15:00+01:00 End: 2022-12-13 13:00:00+01:00
Program
10:15 - 11:15 Friedemann Zenke (Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, and University of Basel, Switzerland).
Principles of predictive representation learning in biological neural networks.
11:15 - 11:45 Sebastian Otte (Wilhelm Schickard Institute, University of Tübingen, Germany).
Towards more efficient recurrent learning.
11:45 - 12:00 Break
12:00 - 12:30 Aditya Gilra (Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica, Amsterdam, Netherlands).
Local learning of non-linear dynamics in recurrent spiking neural networks.
12:30 - 13:00 Bojian Yin (Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica, Amsterdam, Netherlands).
Efficient Spiking Neural Network: from lab to real-world.
Please register in advance for this symposium to enable room arrangements. Registration closes on 12th December 2022.
Registration form HERE.
- Email: Sander Bohte
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PhD defence Bojian Yin (Machine Learning)
- 2022-12-14T11:00:00+01:00
- 2022-12-14T12:00:00+01:00
PhD defence Bojian Yin (Machine Learning)
Start: 2022-12-14 11:00:00+01:00 End: 2022-12-14 12:00:00+01:00
Everybody is welcome to attend the public lecture of Bojian Yin of his thesis entitled 'Efficient Spiking Neural Networks'.
Promoters: prof. dr. S.M. Bohte and prof.dr. H. Corporaal
Co-promotor: dr. F. Corradi
- Email: Bojian Yin
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PhD defence Lynn Sörensen (Machine Learning)
- 2023-01-17T15:00:00+01:00
- 2023-01-17T16:00:00+01:00
PhD defence Lynn Sörensen (Machine Learning)
Start: 2023-01-17 15:00:00+01:00 End: 2023-01-17 16:00:00+01:00
Everybody is welcome to attend the public defence of Lynn Sörensen of her thesis entitled 'Deep Neural Network Models of Visual Cognition'.
Promotores: H. Steven Scholte (UvA), Heleen A. Slagter (VU)
co-promotor: Sander M. Bohté (CWI, RUG)
- Email: Lynn Sörensen
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Members
Associated Members
Publications
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Yin, B. (2022, December 14). Efficient and accurate spiking neural networks.
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ter Schure, J.A, & Grünwald, P.D. (2022). ALL-IN meta-analysis: Breathing life into living systematic reviews. F1000Research, 11, 549.1–549.24. doi:10.12688/f1000research.74223.1
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Vicol, A.-D, Yin, B, & Bohte, S.M. (2022). Real-time classification of LIDAR data using discrete-time Recurrent Spiking Neural Networks. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Joint Conference on Neural Networks. doi:10.1109/IJCNN55064.2022.9892006
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Martín-Sánchez, G, Bohte, S.M, & Otte, A.S.E. (2022). A taxonomy of recurrent learning rules. In Proceedings of the International Conference of Artificial Neural Networks (pp. 478–490). doi:10.1007/978-3-031-15919-0_40
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Yin, B, Guo, Q, Corporaal, H, Corradi, F, & Bohte, S.M. (2022). Attentive decision-making and dynamic resetting of continual running SRNNs for end-to-end streaming keyword spotting. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Neuromorphic Systems. doi:10.1145/3546790.3546795
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Turner, R.J, Grünwald, P.D, & Härmä, A. (2022). Safe Sequential Conditional Independence Tests for Discrete Variables. In Proceedings of the Online Conference to Unite Philips AI 2022.
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Turner, R.J, Coenen, F, Roelofs, F, Hagoort, K, Härmä, A, Grünwald, P.D, … Scheepers, F.E. (2022). Information extraction from free text for aiding transdiagnostic psychiatry: constructing NLP pipelines tailored to clinicians’ needs. BMC Psychiatry, 22, 407.1–407.11. doi:10.1186/s12888-022-04058-z
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ter Schure, J.A. (2022, April 7). ALL-IN meta-analysis.
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Sörensen, L.K.A, Bohte, S.M, Slagter, H.A, & Scholte, H.S. (2022). Arousal state affects perceptual decision-making by modulating hierarchical sensory processing in a large-scale visual system model. PLoS Computational Biology, 18(4), e1009976.1–e1009976.25. doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1009976
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Agrawal, S, Juneja, S, & Koolen-Wijkstra, W.M. (2021). Regret-minimization in risk-averse bandits. In Proceedings of the Indian Control Conference, ICC (pp. 195–200). doi:10.1109/ICC54714.2021.9703134
Software
Squint: Experimenting in Prediction with Expert Advice problems
Squint provides a codebase to perform numerical proof-of-concept experiments in learning theory, particularly in Prediction with Expert Advice problems, a core problem in learning theory.
Current projects with external funding
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Enabling Personalized Interventions (EPI)
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Human Brain Project - SGA3 (HBP-SGA3)
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Efficient Models of Decision-Making for Asseing Cognitive Processing States (None)
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Increasing Scientific Efficiency with Sequential Methods (pre-proposal) (None)
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Perceptive acting under uncertainty: safety solutions for autonomous systems (None)
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Spiking Neural Networks research program
Related partners
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Katholieke Universiteit Nijmegen
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Philips
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KPMG
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SURFsara B.V.
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Technische Universiteit Eindhoven
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Technische Universiteit Delft
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Universiteit van Amsterdam
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Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam