Week of Events
Monday, July 13, 2026
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Virtual EventJuly 13, 2026Scott, J. (CSE) – Mechanistic Specialization Does Not Guarantee Performance: Evidence from Dual AttentionTransformers
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Hybrid EventJuly 13, 2026Kembay, A. (ECE) – Sparse and Continual Foundations for Adaptive General Intelligence
Scott, J. (CSE) – Mechanistic Specialization Does Not Guarantee Performance: Evidence from Dual AttentionTransformers
Dual Attention Transformers (DATs) extend decoder-only Transformers with a dedicated relational-attention stream, making them a natural architecture for abstract identity rules such asABA and ABB. Surprisingly, we find that comparably sized GPT-2 models outperform DATs on these tasks. We investigate this gap with two complementary mechanistic analyses. First, causal mediation analysis shows that DATs exhibit […]
Kembay, A. (ECE) – Sparse and Continual Foundations for Adaptive General Intelligence
While the human brain learns continually, mastering new tasks without forgetting the old and adapting to unfamiliar ones from context alone, modern neural networks still lack both. To bridge the gap between biological adaptivity and modern AI, we have established foundational work on sparsity as a computational principle at three levels of neural computation, through […]
Tuesday, July 14, 2026
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Wednesday, July 15, 2026
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Thursday, July 16, 2026
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Friday, July 17, 2026
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Hybrid EventJuly 17, 2026Calicchio, A. (BMEB) – Comparison of long-read sequencing and analysis methods for transcriptome analysis
Calicchio, A. (BMEB) – Comparison of long-read sequencing and analysis methods for transcriptome analysis
Alternative splicing, the process generating different RNA isoforms from a single gene, is considered one of the main factors driving increased organism complexity in eukaryotes. Variations in isoform and gene […]
Saturday, July 18, 2026
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Sunday, July 19, 2026
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