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Alessandro Marin Vargas

4 accepted papers

2025

Anatomically inspired digital twins capture hierarchical object representations in visual cortex

NeurIPS 2025poster

Invariant object recognition-the ability to identify objects despite changes in appearance-is a hallmark of visual processing in the brain, yet its understanding remains a central challenge in systems neuroscience. Artificial neural networks trained to predict neural responses to visual stimuli (“di…

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2025

Beyond single neurons: population response geometry in digital twins of mouse visual cortex

ICLR 2025poster

Hierarchical visual processing is essential for cognitive functions like object recognition and spatial localization. Traditional studies of the neural basis of these computations have focused on single-neuron activity, but recent advances in large-scale neural recordings emphasize the growing need…

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2023

Latent exploration for Reinforcement Learning

NeurIPS 2023poster

In Reinforcement Learning, agents learn policies by exploring and interacting with the environment. Due to the curse of dimensionality, learning policies that map high-dimensional sensory input to motor output is particularly challenging. During training, state of the art methods (SAC, PPO, etc.) ex…

2022

DMAP: a Distributed Morphological Attention Policy for learning to locomote with a changing body

NeurIPS 2022accept

Biological and artificial agents need to deal with constant changes in the real world. We study this problem in four classical continuous control environments, augmented with morphological perturbations. Learning to locomote when the length and the thickness of different body parts vary is challengi…