Charlotte Volk
charlottevolk.bsky.social
Charlotte Volk
@charlottevolk.bsky.social
MSc Student in NeuroAI @ McGill & Mila
w/ Blake Richards & Shahab Bakhtiari
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🚨 New preprint alert!

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We propose a theory of how learning curriculum affects generalization through neural population dimensionality. Learning curriculum is a determining factor of neural dimensionality - where you start from determines where you end up.
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The curriculum effect in visual learning: the role of readout dimensionality
Generalization of visual perceptual learning (VPL) to unseen conditions varies across tasks. Previous work suggests that training curriculum may be integral to generalization, yet a theoretical explan...
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I have open positions for graduate students in my lab. If you’re interested in joining, please apply through the Mila form.

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Mila's annual supervision request process is now open to receive MSc and PhD applications for Fall 2026 admission! For more information, visit mila.quebec/en/prospecti...
October 15, 2025 at 1:27 PM
🚨 New preprint alert!

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We propose a theory of how learning curriculum affects generalization through neural population dimensionality. Learning curriculum is a determining factor of neural dimensionality - where you start from determines where you end up.
🧠📈

A 🧵:

tinyurl.com/yr8tawj3
The curriculum effect in visual learning: the role of readout dimensionality
Generalization of visual perceptual learning (VPL) to unseen conditions varies across tasks. Previous work suggests that training curriculum may be integral to generalization, yet a theoretical explan...
tinyurl.com
September 30, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Reposted by Charlotte Volk
Excited to share that seq-JEPA has been accepted to NeurIPS 2025!
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Can we simultaneously learn transformation-invariant and transformation-equivariant representations with self-supervised learning?

TL;DR Yes! This is possible via simple predictive learning & architectural inductive biases – without extra loss terms and predictors!

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September 19, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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New preprint! 🧠🤖

How do we build neural decoders that are:
⚡️ fast enough for real-time use
🎯 accurate across diverse tasks
🌍 generalizable to new sessions, subjects, and even species?

We present POSSM, a hybrid SSM architecture that optimizes for all three of these axes!

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June 6, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Excited to be at #Cosyne2025 for the first time! I'll be presenting my poster [2-104] during the Friday session. E-poster here: www.world-wide.org/cosyne-25/se...
March 27, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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📢 We have a new #NeuroAI postdoctoral position in the lab!

If you have a strong background in #NeuroAI or computational neuroscience, I’d love to hear from you.

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March 14, 2025 at 1:02 PM