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Fabio Cumbo, Kabir Dhillon, M. Hassan Najafi, Sercan Aygun + 1 more
The exponential growth of genomic databases necessitates alignment-free methods for comparing genomes. While MinHash-based tools have revolutionized this field by efficiently estimating the Average Nucleotide Identity based on k-mer sets, they inherently discard structural genomic information. We introduce HyperSketch…
Namasi G Sankar, Georgios Miliotis, Simon Caton
Genome assembly is important in infectious disease surveillance, antimicrobial resistance monitoring, and cancer genomics. The task of reconstructing full genomic sequences from fragmented reads, can be framed as a large scale combinatorial optimisation problem. Recent advances in quantum computing have introduced new…
Hao Ding, Nannan Wu, Tianyi Qiu
DNA foundation models such as Evo2 7B adopt hybrid Hyena/attention architectures (Striped-Hyena2) whose single-stream autoregressive decoding is bounded by weight bandwidth at ∼45 tok/s. Speculative decoding on such hybrids faces a systems problem that prior SSM work solves only partially: after a draft is verified…
Matteo Farina, Pietro Zamberlan, Arno Onken, Ulisse Ferrari
For datasets with thousands of neurons and images, vision transformers have proven successful at predicting neural responses to stimuli. However, they are expected to underperform in low-data regimes, where CNNs and Gaussian processes are considered more effective. We ask whether transformers can be made competitive…
Eliezer Masliah
How transient neural representations become integrated and stable enough to function as internal neural models remains incompletely understood. Grounded in efficient coding, Bayesian and predictive frameworks, recurrent and attractor dynamics, neural state-space models, and systems neuroscience, the Principle of…
Alyssa B. Price, Dimitri L. Brunelle, Collin R. Park, Andrea S. Lowe + 2 more
Tinnitus is one of the most common hearing disorders affecting one-third of Americans and is defined as the buzzing or ringing sound one perceives in one or both ears in the absence of an acoustic stimulus. One objective method for tinnitus screening in rodents is gap prepulse inhibition of the acoustic startle reflex…
Yi Ren, Zimei Chen, Hayden Deans, Ying Nian Wu + 1 more
Extensive studies suggest the brain performs Bayesian inference to infer the latent world states. It is a fundamental neuroscience question that how canonical recurrent neural circuits in the brain implement Bayesian inference. Many existing theoretical studies focused on how the recurrent circuits compute the…
ChenTianyi Yang, Andrew Thwaites, Cai Wingfield, Chao Zhang + 1 more
The brain builds meaning from speech in stages, transforming acoustic input into linguistic comprehension. Yet where comprehension separates from general acoustic processing has been difficult to localize, because the two are tightly entangled in continuous speech. Here we align the activity of 145,000 individual…