Bio-inspired artificial neural networks

Foundation for Polish Science (FNP)
TEAM-NET programme

Our Project

The artificial neural network model was created based on analogies to biological counterparts, such as a simplified model of the neuron or a system of retinal neurons. Due to the increasing complexity of tasks and problems with the development of effective methods for learning deep neural networks, solutions based on algebraic structures dominate Today, advanced approaches in machine learning such as deep learning show a number of undesirable features, such as forgetfulness, susceptibility to adversarial examples, the requirement for a large training set, and slow learning. Most of these features do not occur in biological systems, thus it would be beneficial to take an inspiration from them to help training artificial systems. The aim of the project is to analyze high-level behaviors of biological neural systems and to build innovative artificial models by proposing new paradigms of learning and new architectures of computational models.

The execution of the project occurred under the TEAM-NET program of the Foundation for Polish Science, with co-financing from the European Union through the European Regional Development Fund. The project received funding amounting to PLN 19,701,875.

Job offers

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The Jagiellonian University will run six research groups: Cognitive group (leader Tadeusz Marek), Physics group (leader Maciej A. Nowak), Machine-learning group, Neuro group, BioDataScience group, InfoTech group.

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Cognitive group:

Physics group:

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Neuro group:

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InfoTech group:

are open.

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Business contacts

Through our expertise, we support Ardigen SA in providing innovative solutions using our experience in medical image analysis, drug design, and cheminformatics. As a result, we published many research papers at top conferences (NeurIPS, IJCAI, MIDL, MEDINFO) and journals (Journal of Cheminformatics, PloS one). We plan to further strengthen the collaboration with Ardigen by submitting grant proposals to apply the results of our research in the business.

As part of our collaboration with Tooploox, we run several research projects focused on 3D point representations, continuous flow architectures of neural networks and visual reasoning. The results of these works are submitted and published at top-tier conferences (NeurIPS, ICML, IJCAI). Together with Tooploox, as our industrial partner, we plan to deepen our collaboration by submitting future grant proposals and turning research results into commercially viable solutions.

Our team collaborates with Sages, an IT company established in 2007, offering comprehensive IT support, specialist IT education, and AI-driven solutions for process automation in organizations. Through our Team-Net project, we share the knowledge we've gained to contribute to the growth of the economy. Sages' impressive client portfolio includes companies like Alior Bank, OLX Group, Bank Zachodni WBK, Orange Polska, Lufthansa, among many others.

The principle of equal opportunities

We apply the principle of equal opportunities and implement standards of equality in project management. The project participants underwent 8-hour anti-discrimination training. The anti-discrimination guide for project participants is available here.

We offer: specialized IT education and solutions based on artificial intelligence

In collaboration with Sages, we provide the following specialized courses:

For detailed pricing and registration information, please visit the Sages website, where the course names above are hyperlinked. You can also access comprehensive course descriptions and guidelines on the same page (regulations for these courses are here).

Events

MLSS^S 2023

MLSS^S 2023 is a summer school providing a didactic introduction to a range of modern topics in Machine Learning and their applications in other disciplines of Science, primarily intended for research-oriented graduate students. The school features a line-up of internationally recognized researchers who will talk with enthusiasm about their subjects. Our goal is to provide a unique opportunity to learn from and connect with the leading experts in the scenic setting of the historic city of Kraków, Poland. This school is the next edtion of MLSS^N 2022.

BNNI 2022

The BNNI 2022 is interdisciplinary and covers modeling at different levels of the organization of the brain. The course combines lectures, tutorials, and computer exercises for computational modeling and analysis of brain functions at multiple physiological and anatomical scales. The summer school will follow the series of the Baltic-Nordic Courses on Neuroinformatics (BNNI 2013 in Kaunas, BNNI 2014 in Tampere, BNNI 2015 in Tartu, BNNI 2016 in Warsaw, BNNI 2017 in Kaunas, BNNI 2018 in Ventspils, BNNI 2019 in Frankfurt, BNNI 2021 online).

MLSS^N 2022

MLSS^N 2022 is a summer school providing a didactic introduction to a range of modern topics in Machine Learning, Computer Vision and Computational Neuroscience, primarily intended for research-oriented graduate students. The school features a line-up of internationally recognised researchers who will talk with enthusiasm about their subjects. Our goal is to provide a unique opportunity to learn from and connect with the leading experts in the scenic setting of the historical city of Krakow.

Seminars Schedule

17th December

Maria Lewandowska, "Głębokie konwolucyjne sieci neuronowe do analizy skanów MRI"

10th December

Dyskusja na temat danych pochodzących od grupy kongnitywistycznej

3rd December

Anna Ceglarek i Bartosz Bohaterewicz, "Zastosowanie teorii grafów w analizach fMRI"

5th November

Group Workshop

11:00 - 12:00	Machine-learning group
12:10 - 13:10	Physics group
13:10 - 14:00	Lunch
14:00 - 15:00	Neuro group
15:10 - 16:10	Cognitive group
16:10 - 16:40	Coffee Break
16:40 - 18:40	Group Discussion

Localization: Room 1146 (first floor). Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, Łojasiewicza 6, 30-348 Kraków.

24th September

Maciej Wołczyk, Jacek Tabor, Marek Śmieja, "Biologically-Inspired Spatial Neural Networks"

10th September

Romuald Janik, "Explaining the Human Visual Brain 2019 competition and workshop"
Additional information: Paper you can find here.

30th July

Magda Gawłowska, "EEG 101"

9th July

Igor Podolak, "BioNN machine learning"

8th December

11:15 - 12:45

Rafał Bogacz: Propagacja wsteczna w mózgu

Localization: online meeting

24th November

12:00 - 14:00

Łukasz Kuśmierz: Heavy tails in machine learning and neuroscience

Localization: online meeting

10th November

13:00 - 15:00

Aylen de Florian: What you need to know about optogenetics

Localization: online meeting

27th October

11:00 - 13:00

Friedemann Zenke: Toward functional spiking neural networks through surrogate gradients

Localization: online meeting

13th October

11:00 - 13:00

Sławomir Tadeja: Applications of AR/VR Interfaces in Biology and Medicine: A Short Review

Localization: online meeting

29th September

11:00 - 13:00

Sebastian Szymański: Etyka AI: podstawowe problemy

Localization: online meeting

15th September

11:00 - 13:00

Piotr Miłoś, Łukasz Kuciński: Reinforcement learning adventures

Localization: online meeting

7th July

11:00 - 13:00

Gabriela Mochol: Prefrontal cortex represents heuristics that shape choice bias and its integration into future behavior

Localization: online meeting

23th June

11:00 - 13:00

Bartosz Bohaterewicz: Machine learning based identification of suicidal risk in patients diagnosed with schizophrenia, bases on multi-level resting state fmri features, semantic development, and cognitive control

Localization: online meeting

9th June

11:00 - 13:00

Andrew Saxe: Deep learning theories of perceptual learning, semantic development, and cognitive control

Localization: online meeting

26th May

11:00 - 13:00

Aleksandra Nowak: Neural Networks on Random Graphs

Localization: online meeting

12th May

14:00 - 15:00

Daniel Martin: Inferring interactions from all-optical interrogation of neural circuits

Localization: online meeting

28th April

11:15 - 12:00	Maciej Wołczyk, Marek Śmieja, Jacek Tabor: Wstęp do "conditional computations"
12:00 - 12:45	Jacek Grela “Uczenie sieci neuronowych jako przejście fazowe”

Localization: online meeting

31th March

Group Workshop

10:00 - 11:00	Jacek Rogala: “Sztuczne sieci neuronowe z perspektywy biologa”
11:00 - 12:00	Daniel Wójcik “Równania Hodgkina-Huxleya - mechanizmy generacji iglicy”
12:00 - 13:30	Lunch
13:30 - 14:30	Tomasz Trzciński "Przegląd propozycji mini-projektów w grupie InfoTech"
14:30 - 15:30	Magda Gawłowska "Aktualne trendy w analizie danych EEG"
15:30 - 16:00	Jacek Tabor: dyskusja

Localization: online meeting

3rd March

Marek Śmieja, "Direct Feedback Alignment"

18th February

Group Workshop

11:00 - 12:00	Przemysław Spurek: Independent Component Analysis
12:00 - 13:00	Lunch
13:00 - 14:30	Paweł Hottowy: Perspektywy budowy zaawansowanego implantu dla niewidomych
14:30 - 15:30	Coffee Break: Room 1103
15:30 - 17:00	Daniel Wójcik: Wstęp do neurobiologii obliczeniowej, cz. 1: Równanie kabla - dendryty bierne

Localization: Room 1016 (first floor). Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, Łojasiewicza 6, 30-348 Kraków.

28th January

Igor Sieradzki, Maciej Wołczyk: Continual Machine Learning: Scenarios, Current Methods and Evaluation

21st January

Group Workshop

12:00 - 14:00	Igor Podolak, Igor Sieradzki, Maciej Wołczyk: Introduction to continual learning
14:00 - 14:45	Lunch
14:45 - 15:30	Tomasz Trzciński: Learning binary representaiton of images
15:30 - 16:15	Paweł Oświęcimka: Fractal approach to time series analysis
16:15 - 16:45	Coffee break
16:45 - 17:30	Ziemowit Sławiński: Spiking neural networks

Localization: Room 1146 (first floor). Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, Łojasiewicza 6, 30-348 Kraków.

14th January

Igor Podolak: Biological blueprints for next generation AI systems
Dyskusja na temat danych pochodzących od grupy kongnitywistycznej - kontynuacja

14th December

11:00 - 12:30

Ludovico Minati: On nonlinear electronic circuits: some phenomena, experiments and applications

Localization: online.

30th November

11:15 - 12:45

Mike X Cohen: “A deep learning framework for neuroscience": A guided discussion

Localization: online.

16th November

11:15 - 12:45

Lars-Håkan Thorell: Damage to specific hippocampal CA3 neurons prevents the ability to normal orienting to and learning details in the everyday environment and removes our last barrier to take our lives when we are depressed

Localization: online.

6th-8th October

Brain-inspired computing and simulations (Horizon Europe Weeks)

Localization: Turówka Conference Center (Wieliczka) and online.

5th October

11:15 - 12:45	Anna i Tomasz Błasiak: Stajnia Augiasza współczesnej neurobiologii
13:15 - 14:00	Piotr Majka: The network organisation of the marmoset cerebral cortex: large-scale analysis of cortico-cortical connections at single cell resolution

Localization: Room 1146 (first floor). Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, Łojasiewicza 6, 30-348 Kraków.

30th September

15:00 - 16:30

Dante Chialvo: Life at the edge: complexity and criticality in biological function

Localization: Room A-1-13. Faculty of Physics, Astronomy and Applied Computer Science, Łojasiewicza 11, 30-348 Kraków.

21st September

10:15 - 11:00	Henryk Michalewski: Automatyczne dowodzenie twierdzeń
11:15 - 12:00	Piotr Miłoś, Łukasz Kuciński: Uczenie ze wzmocnieniem - perspektywy badań

Localization: Room 1146 (first floor). Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, Łojasiewicza 6, 30-348 Kraków.

22nd June

11:15 - 12:45

Bernhard Geiger: Information-Theoretic Analysis and Design of Neural Networks

15th June

11:15 - 12:45

Dominika Basaj, Witold Oleszkiewicz, Bartosz Zieliński: Explaining Self-Supervised Image Representations with Visual Probing

Localization: Room 1146 (first floor). Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, Łojasiewicza 6, 30-348 Kraków.

25th May

11:15 - 12:45

Andrzej Nowak: Narracje - perspektywa poznawcza i społeczna

11th May

11:15 - 12:45

Elżbieta Pyza: Struktura, aktywność i plastyczność mózgu Drosophila melanogaster - część 2

27th April

11:15 - 12:45

Elżbieta Pyza: Struktura, aktywność i plastyczność mózgu Drosophila melanogaster - część 1

16th March

11:15 - 12:45

Piotr Miłoś, Łukasz Kuciński: Continual World: A Robotic Benchmark for Continual Reinforcement Learning

2nd March

11:15 - 12:45

Johannes Zierenberg: Using modular networks to reliably distinguish temporal input patterns

9th February

11:15 - 12:45

Andrzej Wróbel: Mózg i świadomość

2nd February

11:15 - 12:45

Szymon Szczęsny: Pokonywanie ograniczeń implementacji sprzętowej sieci impulsujących

13th December

11:15 - 12:45

Tomasz Pieciak: Diffusion MRI of the brain

Localization: online

22nd November

11:15 - 12:45

Justyna Sarzyńska-Wawer i Aleksander Wawer: Kłamanie po polsku: analiza języka oraz automatyczne metody wykrywania

Localization: Room 1146 (first floor). Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, Łojasiewicza 6, 30-348 Kraków.

11th October

11:15 - 12:45

Iwona Grabska-Gradzińska: TBA

Localization: Room 1146 (first floor). Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, Łojasiewicza 6, 30-348 Kraków.

20th September

11:15 - 12:45

Sabina Podlewska: Assistance of computational methods at different stages of drug design pipelines

Localization: Room 1146 (first floor). Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, Łojasiewicza 6, 30-348 Kraków.

13th September

11:15 - 12:45

Krzysztof Geras: Characterizing and overcoming the greedy nature of learning in multi-modal deep neural networks

Localization: Room 1146 (first floor). Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, Łojasiewicza 6, 30-348 Kraków.

7th June

11:15 - 12:45

Paweł Morawiecki: Hebbian Continual Representation Learning

Localization: Room 1146 (first floor). Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, Łojasiewicza 6, 30-348 Kraków.

24th May

11:15 - 12:45

Przemysław Spurek: Continual Learning with Guarantees via Weight Interval Constraints

Localization: online

10th May

11:15 - 12:45

Jan Rodriguez Parkitna: Neuronalne mechanizmy uczenia ze wzmocnieniem

Localization: Room 1146 (first floor). Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, Łojasiewicza 6, 30-348 Kraków.

26th April

11:15 - 12:45

Dariusz Zapała: Różnice w aktywności mózgu podczas tworzenia kinestetycznych i wizualnych wyobrażeń ruchowych

Localization: online

12th April

11:15 - 12:45

Piotr Durka: Brain-computer interfaces

Localization: Room 1146 (first floor). Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, Łojasiewicza 6, 30-348 Kraków.

8th March

11:15 - 12:45

Carlosa Riquelme: Scaling Vision with Sparse Mixture of Experts

Localization: online.

8th February

11:15 - 12:45

Marcin Leszczyński: Neurobiology of active vision

Localization: online.

25th January

11:15 - 12:45

Wojciech B. Solecki: Locus coeruleus noradrenergic projections into the ventral tegmental area regulate cocaine seeking

Localization: online.

11th January

11:15 - 12:45

Wojciech Samek: Explainable AI: Concepts, Methods and Recent Developments

Localization: online.

20th June

12:30 - 14:00

Maciej Jaworski: Modele kompresji sieci neuronowych

Localization: Room 1146 (first floor). Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, Łojasiewicza 6, 30-348 Kraków.

16th May

11:15 - 12:10	Marek Binder: Wykorzystanie słuchowych potencjałów stanu ustalonego do oceny funkcjonowania mózgowia w zaburzeniach świadomości
12:30 - 13:15	Michał Lenarczyk: Wybrane wyniki badań grupy Neuro

Localization: Room 1146 (first floor). Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, Łojasiewicza 6, 30-348 Kraków.

18th April

11:15 - 12:12	Zhaoping Li: V1 Saliency Hypothesis and Central-Peripheral Dichotomy (CPD)
12:15 - 13:00	Klaudia Bałazy: Revisiting Offline Compression: Going Beyond Factorization-based Methods for Transformer Language Models

Localization: Room 1146 (first floor). Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, Łojasiewicza 6, 30-348 Kraków.

21th March

11:15 - 12:45

Adam Pawłowski: Jak opatentować programy komputerowe

Localization: online.

14th March

11:15 - 12:12

Mateusz Kierepka: Sztuczna inteligencja, rozszerzona rzeczywistość w medycynie - relacja z własnych startupów

Localization: Room 1146 (first floor). Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, Łojasiewicza 6, 30-348 Kraków.

31th January

11:15 - 12:45

Michał Zając: Exploring continual learning of diffusion models