[Computer Vision Talks] Mar 28, Artificial Kuramoto Oscillatory Neurons (AKOrN) with Takeru Miyato | ICLR 2025 Oral
Shambhavi Mishra
Hi everyone,
Our next Computer Vision Talks session features Takeru Miyato presenting Artificial Kuramoto Oscillatory Neurons (AKOrN), accepted as an Oral at ICLR 2025.
When: Saturday, March 28, 2026 at 11:00 AM ET
What to expect: AKOrN introduces a fundamentally different kind of neuron, one that evolves over time through synchronization dynamics inspired by the Kuramoto model, rather than relying on static threshold activations. The framework is architecture-agnostic (works with CNNs, MLPs, and attention) and shows strong results across a surprisingly diverse set of tasks: unsupervised object discovery (beating slot-based models on PascalVOC), OOD Sudoku reasoning (89.5% via test-time compute scaling), adversarial robustness, and uncertainty calibration with ECE as low as 1.3 on CIFAR-10 corruptions without any explicit calibration loss.
About the speaker: Takeru is a PhD student at the Autonomous Vision Group, University of Tübingen, supervised by Andreas Geiger and Max Welling. He is also a part-time researcher at Preferred Networks and previously interned at Google Brain with Ian Goodfellow and Andrew Dai.
Sign Up: https://uqz.zoom.us/meeting/register/ksStuWM6SKecGFeizqyGTg
Links:
- Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.13821
- Project page: https://takerum.github.io/akorn_project_page/
- Code: https://github.com/autonomousvision/akorn
- Past talks: https://shambhavicodes.github.io/reading-group/
See you there!
Shambhavi Mishra
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