Devon Jarvis

Our paper, “Make Haste Slowly: A Theory of Emergent Structured Mixed Selectivity in Feature Learning ReLU Networks” will be presented at ICLR 2025 this week (openreview.net/forum?id=27SSn…)! We derive closed-form dynamics for some, remarkably linear, feature learning ReLU networks (1/9)

CAandL Lab is at #Cosyne2026! 🧠 If you are interested in complementary learning systems and multisensory integration, check out our work by @liamculligan tomorrow! Our gratitude to the MIND Institute @WitsUniversity for generously sponsoring the conference travel expenses.

Hiring 2 Postdocs to work on Theoretical Foundations of AI Safety @chalmersuniv If you have a background in Physics, Math, or ML and want to tackle AI alignment at a fundamental level alongside UCL, apply below! 🔗Apply: chalmers.se/en/about-chalm… 🔬Lab: stefsmlab.github.io

We would like to congratulate and wish the Faculty of Science well on the launch of the AMPLIFY Unit lead by Abdul Hamid Carrim! Mathematics is at the heart of Computer Science and we are excited to see this step towards promoting excellence in 1st Year Mathematics.

🎉 Congratulations to Jess Rees and Tristan Bester on being awarded the highly competitive Google PhD Fellowship for 2025 . 💙🏛️ This prestigious fellowship recognises exceptional PhD candidates from the School of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics (CSAM) at Wits whose research shows outstanding potential for groundbreaking scientific contributions and meaningful societal impact. Read More: ow.ly/JcFH50XZZsP #WitsForGood #WitsResearch #InnovationForGood

I'm beyond honoured to be included on @TIME's list of the TIME100 AI of 2025! #TIME100AI time.com/collections/ti…

It’s been a real pleasure visiting @devonjarvi5 lab @caandl_lab at @WitsUniversity this week and giving a talk – great discussions and inspiring work happening here! 🇿🇦

The cherry on top is that it was awarded in the category of Artificial Intelligence. The future is looking bright for South African AI and neuroscience and I am gratified to be recognised as one of many young voices ensuring that we contribute globally to these impactful fields

I am excited to share that I have been named in the @mailandguardian 200 Young South Africans for 2025! This is a great honour and demonstrates the impact of the work we are doing at @WitsUniversity in Computer Science. lnkd.in/eyasKJB8 #MG200 #MG200Young

Great news! This work has also been accepted into RLC for the Journal to Conference Track. Congrats @geraudnt and teams for the great result 🦾

Looking forward to presenting Tree-WSV for fast unsupervised ground metric learning at @iclr_conf 2025 tomorrow at 3 pm! Come find me at poster #197 🌳

Had so much fun presenting our two posters at ICLR with @devonjarvi5 and @nico_anguita ! Thanks to everyone who came by and chatted!

CAandL Lab is at ICLR this week with 3 poster presentations. Come by and chat if you are interested! Congrats to all of the authors🥳 @frnc_mori @stefsmlab @framigna @devonjarvi5 @kleinric @BenjaminRosman @SaxeLab @sebalexlee @ClementineDomi6

A huge thanks to my supervisors @kleinric, @BenjaminRosman and @SaxeLab for their constant assistance and guidance. Looking forward to chatting more on Thursday at 3pm, Poster #349! 👋 (9/9)

Finally, we provide an initial hidden layer clustering algorithm which is able to identify a ReLN for a given ReLU network, with the goal of enabling future work with our paradigm. (8/9)

Our paper, “Make Haste Slowly: A Theory of Emergent Structured Mixed Selectivity in Feature Learning ReLU Networks” will be presented at ICLR 2025 this week (openreview.net/forum?id=27SSn…)! We derive closed-form dynamics for some, remarkably linear, feature learning ReLU networks (1/9)