Guillaume Lajoie

Biographie

Guillaume Lajoie est professeur agrégé au Département de mathématiques et de statistiques (DMS) de l'Université de Montréal et membre académique principal de Mila – Institut québécois d’intelligence artificielle. Il est titulaire d'une chaire CIFAR (CCAI Canada) ainsi que d'une chaire de recherche du Canada (CRC) en calcul et interfaçage neuronaux.

Ses recherches sont positionnées à l'intersection de l'IA et des neurosciences où il développe des outils pour mieux comprendre les mécanismes d'intelligence communs aux systèmes biologiques et artificiels. Les contributions de son groupe de recherche vont des progrès des paradigmes d'apprentissage à plusieurs échelles pour les grands systèmes artificiels aux applications en neurotechnologie. Dr. Lajoie participe activement aux efforts de développement responsables de l'IA, cherchant à identifier les lignes directrices et les meilleures pratiques pour l'utilisation de l'IA dans la recherche et au-delà.

Étudiants actuels

Federico Arangath Joseph

Collaborateur·rice de recherche - ETH Zurich

Stefan Bauer

Visiteur de recherche indépendant

Superviseur⋅e principal⋅e :

Yoshua Bengio

Sangnie Bhardwaj

Doctorat - UdeM

Co-superviseur⋅e :

Hugo Larochelle

Colin Bredenberg

Postdoctorat - UdeM

Co-superviseur⋅e :

Blake Richards

Leo Choiniere

Doctorat - UdeM

Olivier Codol

Postdoctorat - UdeM

Co-superviseur⋅e :

Doctorat - UdeM

Superviseur⋅e principal⋅e :

Doctorat - UdeM

Superviseur⋅e principal⋅e :

Leo Gagnon

Doctorat - UdeM

Juan Guerra

Maîtrise recherche - Polytechnique

Superviseur⋅e principal⋅e :

Marco Bonizzato

Site web

Nanda Harishankar Krishna

Doctorat - UdeM

Collaborateur·rice de recherche - Western Washington University (faculty; assistant prof))

Superviseur⋅e principal⋅e :

Maîtrise recherche - UdeM

Co-superviseur⋅e :

Dhanya Sridhar

tejaskasetty@gmail.com

Collaborateur·rice de recherche - UdeM

Ximeng Mao

Doctorat - UdeM

Co-superviseur⋅e :

Joelle Pineau

Abdel Mfougouon Njupoun

Doctorat - UdeM

Co-superviseur⋅e :

Doctorat - UdeM

Co-superviseur⋅e :

Amine Natik

Doctorat - UdeM

Co-superviseur⋅e :

Guy Wolf

François Paugam

Doctorat - UdeM

Superviseur⋅e principal⋅e :

Lune Bellec

Alexandre Payeur

Collaborateur·rice de recherche - UdeM

Mohammad Pezeshki

Collaborateur·rice de recherche

Superviseur⋅e principal⋅e :

Postdoctorat - McGill

Superviseur⋅e principal⋅e :

Param Raval

Collaborateur·rice alumni - UdeM

Avery Ryoo

Maîtrise recherche - UdeM

Superviseur⋅e principal⋅e :

Doctorat - UdeM

Co-superviseur⋅e :

Lune Bellec

Laura Suarez

Doctorat - McGill

Ryan Vogt

Postdoctorat - UdeM

Que nous apprennent les distributions des coefficients synaptiques au sujet de l’apprentissage dans le cerveau ?

Vivian White

Stagiaire de recherche - Western Washington University

Co-superviseur⋅e :

Doctorat - UdeM

Billets de blogue

13 juin 2024

par

Roman Pogodin

Jonathan Cornford

Arna Ghosh

Gauthier Gidel

Guillaume Lajoie

Blake Richards

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Publications

Online Bayesian Optimization of Nerve Stimulation

Lorenz Wernisch

Tristan Edwards

Antonin Berthon

Olivier Tessier-Lariviere

Elvijs Sarkans

Myrta Stoukidi

Pascal Fortier-Poisson

Max Pinkney

Michael Thornton

Catherine Hanley

Susannah Lee

Joel Jennings

Ben Appleton

Philip Garsed

Bret Patterson

Buttinger Will

Samuel Gonshaw

Matjaž Jakopec

Sudhakaran Shunmugam

Jorin Mamen … (voir 4 de plus)

Aleksi Tukiainen

Oliver Armitage

Emil Hewage

2023-09-01

bioRxiv (prépublication)

Neural networks with optimized single-neuron adaptation uncover biologically plausible regularization

Victor Geadah

Stefan Horoi

Giancarlo Kerg

Guy Wolf

Neurons in the brain have rich and adaptive input-output properties. Features such as heterogeneous f-I curves and spike frequency adaptatio… (voir plus)n are known to place single neurons in optimal coding regimes when facing changing stimuli. Yet, it is still unclear how brain circuits exploit single-neuron flexibility, and how network-level requirements may have shaped such cellular function. To answer this question, a multi-scaled approach is needed where the computations of single neurons and neural circuits must be considered as a complete system. In this work, we use artificial neural networks to systematically investigate single-neuron input-output adaptive mechanisms, optimized in an end-to-end fashion. Throughout the optimization process, each neuron has the liberty to modify its nonlinear activation function, parametrized to mimic f-I curves of biological neurons, and to learn adaptation strategies to modify activation functions in real-time during a task. We find that such networks show much-improved robustness to noise and changes in input statistics. Importantly, we find that this procedure recovers precise coding strategies found in biological neurons, such as gain scaling and fractional order differentiation/integration. Using tools from dynamical systems theory, we analyze the role of these emergent single-neuron properties and argue that neural diversity and adaptation play an active regularization role, enabling neural circuits to optimally propagate information across time.

2023-07-19

bioRxiv (prépublication)

Flexible Phase Dynamics for Bio-Plausible Contrastive Learning

Ezekiel Williams

Colin Bredenberg

2023-07-03

Proceedings of the 40th International Conference on Machine Learning (publié)

Exploring Exchangeable Dataset Amortization for Bayesian Posterior Inference

Sarthak Mittal

Niels Leif Bracher

Priyank Jaini

Marcus A Brubaker

Bayesian inference provides a natural way of incorporating uncertainties and different underlying theories when making predictions or analyz… (voir plus)ing complex systems. However, it requires computationally expensive routines for approximation, which have to be re-run when new data is observed and are thus infeasible to efficiently scale and reuse. In this work, we look at the problem from the perspective of amortized inference to obtain posterior parameter distributions for known probabilistic models. We propose a neural network-based approach that can handle exchangeable observations and amortize over datasets to convert the problem of Bayesian posterior inference into a single forward pass of a network. Our empirical analyses explore various design choices for amortized inference by comparing: (a) our proposed variational objective with forward KL minimization, (b) permutation-invariant architectures like Transformers and DeepSets, and (c) parameterizations of posterior families like diagonal Gaussian and Normalizing Flows. Through our experiments, we successfully apply amortization techniques to estimate the posterior distributions for different domains solely through inference.

2023-06-19

ICML.cc/2023/Workshop/SPIGM (poster)

Learning to Optimize with Recurrent Hierarchical Transformers

Abhinav Moudgil

Boris Knyazev

Eugene Belilovsky

2023-06-19

ICML.cc/2023/Workshop/Frontiers4LCD (publié)

conn2res: A toolbox for connectome-based reservoir computing

Laura E. Suárez

Agoston Mihalik

Filip Milisav

Kenji Marshall

Mingze Li

Petra E. Vértes

Bratislav Mišić

2023-06-04

bioRxiv (prépublication)

Autonomous optimization of neuroprosthetic stimulation parameters that drive the motor cortex and spinal cord outputs in rats and monkeys

Marco Bonizzato

Rose Guay Hottin

Sandrine L. Côté

Elena Massai

Léo Choinière

Uzay Macar

Samuel Laferrière

Parikshat Sirpal

Stephan Quessy

Marina Martinez

Numa Dancause

2023-04-11

Cell Reports Medicine (publié)

Multi-view manifold learning of human brain state trajectories

Erica Lindsey Busch

Je-chun Huang

Andrew Benz

Tom Wallenstein

Guy Wolf

Smita Krishnaswamy

Nicholas Turk-Browne

2023-03-27

Nature Computational Science (publié)

Transfer Entropy Bottleneck: Learning Sequence to Sequence Information Transfer

Damjan Kalajdzievski

Ximeng Mao

Pascal Fortier-Poisson

Blake Richards

When presented with a data stream of two statistically dependent variables, predicting the future of one of the variables (the target stream… (voir plus)) can benefit from information about both its history and the history of the other variable (the source stream). For example, fluctuations in temperature at a weather station can be predicted using both temperatures and barometric readings. However, a challenge when modelling such data is that it is easy for a neural network to rely on the greatest joint correlations within the target stream, which may ignore a crucial but small information transfer from the source to the target stream. As well, there are often situations where the target stream may have previously been modelled independently and it would be useful to use that model to inform a new joint model. Here, we develop an information bottleneck approach for conditional learning on two dependent streams of data. Our method, which we call Transfer Entropy Bottleneck (TEB), allows one to learn a model that bottlenecks the directed information transferred from the source variable to the target variable, while quantifying this information transfer within the model. As such, TEB provides a useful new information bottleneck approach for modelling two statistically dependent streams of data in order to make predictions about one of them.

2023-03-08

TMLR (accepté)

Use of Invasive Brain-Computer Interfaces in Pediatric Neurosurgery: Technical and Ethical Considerations

David Bergeron

Christian Iorio-Morin

Marco Bonizzato

Nathalie Orr Gaucher

Éric Racine

Alexander G. Weil

2023-03-01

Journal of Child Neurology (publié)

Steerable Equivariant Representation Learning

Sangnie Bhardwaj

Willie McClinton

Tongzhou Wang

Chen Sun

Phillip Isola

Dilip Krishnan

Pre-trained deep image representations are useful for post-training tasks such as classification through transfer learning, image retrieval,… (voir plus) and object detection. Data augmentations are a crucial aspect of pre-training robust representations in both supervised and self-supervised settings. Data augmentations explicitly or implicitly promote invariance in the embedding space to the input image transformations. This invariance reduces generalization to those downstream tasks which rely on sensitivity to these particular data augmentations. In this paper, we propose a method of learning representations that are instead equivariant to data augmentations. We achieve this equivariance through the use of steerable representations. Our representations can be manipulated directly in embedding space via learned linear maps. We demonstrate that our resulting steerable and equivariant representations lead to better performance on transfer learning and robustness: e.g. we improve linear probe top-1 accuracy by between 1% to 3% for transfer; and ImageNet-C accuracy by upto 3.4%. We further show that the steerability of our representations provides significant speedup (nearly 50x) for test-time augmentations; by applying a large number of augmentations for out-of-distribution detection, we significantly improve OOD AUC on the ImageNet-C dataset over an invariant representation.

2023-02-22

ArXiv (preprint)

Sources of richness and ineffability for phenomenally conscious states

Xu Ji

Eric Elmoznino

George Deane

Axel Constant

Guillaume Dumas

Jonathan Simon

Yoshua Bengio

Abstract Conscious states—state that there is something it is like to be in—seem both rich or full of detail and ineffable or hard to fu… (voir plus)lly describe or recall. The problem of ineffability, in particular, is a longstanding issue in philosophy that partly motivates the explanatory gap: the belief that consciousness cannot be reduced to underlying physical processes. Here, we provide an information theoretic dynamical systems perspective on the richness and ineffability of consciousness. In our framework, the richness of conscious experience corresponds to the amount of information in a conscious state and ineffability corresponds to the amount of information lost at different stages of processing. We describe how attractor dynamics in working memory would induce impoverished recollections of our original experiences, how the discrete symbolic nature of language is insufficient for describing the rich and high-dimensional structure of experiences, and how similarity in the cognitive function of two individuals relates to improved communicability of their experiences to each other. While our model may not settle all questions relating to the explanatory gap, it makes progress toward a fully physicalist explanation of the richness and ineffability of conscious experience—two important aspects that seem to be part of what makes qualitative character so puzzling.

2023-02-13

ArXiv (prépublication)