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  1. Removing spurious minima for planar features by skip connections

    Oct 1, 2026Jakob Paul Zimmermann, Moritz Grillo, Andrei Balakin +1Flat MinimaSkip

    Freie Universität Berlin · Technische Universität Berlin

  2. How much of fly walking is written in the wiring?

    Sep 29, 2026Isabel Guan, Yuntian Zhao, Dingyuan Zhang +2Neural CircuitsNeurons

    The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology · ZENBOT · Nanyang Technological University +1

  3. Arbitrary-Accuracy Neural Approximation with Optimal Neuron Count and Near-Optimal Bit Complexity

    Sep 28, 2026Zilan Cheng, Li-Lian Wang, Zhongjian WangNeural ApproximationsApproximation

    Division of Mathematical Sciences, School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, 637371, Singapore.

  4. Let the Neurons Die: Exploiting ReLU-Induced Model Degradation

    Sep 28, 2026Kexin Li, Wenjun Qiu, Joshua Abraham +2Rectified Linear Unit NetworksNeurons

    University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

  5. Neuron-Level Architecture Growth: A Controlled Evaluation for EEG Time-Series Decoding

    Sep 27, 2026Adam Mounir, Stella Douka, Arnault H. Caillet +2ElectroencephalographyNeurons

    Inria TAU – LISN, Université Paris-Saclay, France · Yneuro, Paris, France · Imperial College London, UK +1

  6. Hallucination Neurons and Where to Find Them: An Investigation into the existence of Hallucination Neurons

    Sep 24, 2026Huseyin Cavus, Sebin Sabu, Joshua Spear +2Generative HallucinationNeurons

    Trakya University, Edirne, Türkiye · DRIVE, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK

  7. Boolean threshold functions, neuron capacity, and memory retrieval

    Sep 24, 2026Xinyuan XieNeuronsCombinations

  8. Grammatical "grandmother neurons" are rare in LLMs

    Sep 24, 2026Linyang He, Nima MesgaraniLinguisticsNeurons

    Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute, Columbia University

  9. TNLearn: An Open Source Python Package for Task-based Neurons

    Sep 23, 2026Meng Wang, Tieyun Li, Juntong Fan +5NeuronsPytorch

    Shenzhen H&T Intelligent Control Co., Ltd., Shenzhen, China · School of Mathematics, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China · Department of Data Science, The City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon, Hong Kong +1

  10. Topographic Training Concentrates Causal Circuits Without Improving Neuron Monosemanticity

    Sep 21, 2026Gautam Ranka, Shubham Santosh Pandere, Aiden DsouzaMechanistic InterpretabilityNeurons

    IvLabs, VNIT Nagpur, India.

  11. MGRD: Compact morphology-gated residual diffusion for variance-aware cross-domain neurite forecasting

    Sep 21, 2026Tsung Yeh Hsieh, Cosmin Anitescu, Chunghwan Kim +2Spatio-Temporal ForecastingNeurons

    Department of Mechanical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, 5000 Forbes Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA · Department of Biomedical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, 5000 Forbes Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA · Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, 5000 Forbes Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA

  12. Weakening Neurons: An Input-Output Functionality in Transformers with Outsize Influence

    Sep 16, 2026Sebastian Gerstner, Hilal AlQuabeh, Kentaro Inui +1NeuronsTransformer Architectures

    LMU Munich and Munich Center for Machine Learning · MBZUAI · Tohoku University +1

  13. REACT: A Fully Spiking State-Space Model for Real-Time Event-Driven Temporal Perception

    Sep 16, 2026Geoffroy Keime, Nicolas Cuperlier, Benoit R. CottereauReactiveTime-To-First-Spike

    CerCo, CNRS UMR5549 Université de Toulouse Toulouse, France · IPAL, CNRS IRL, Singapore · ETIS, CY Cergy Paris Université CNRS, ENSEA Cergy, France

  14. Symmetry without a manifold: intrinsic dimension on orbits

    Sep 15, 2026Chon-Fai Kam, Miloud Bessafi, Frédéric CadetIntrinsic DimensionalityScaling Laws

    Dipartimento di Fisica e Chimica, Universit`a degli Studi di Palermo, via Archirafi 36, I-90123 Palermo, Italy · EnergyLab, Universit´e de La R´eunion, F-97715 Saint-Denis, France · Universit´e Paris Cit´e and Universit´e de La R´eunion, BIGR, INSERM UMR S1134, F-75014 Paris, France +1

  15. A neural-astrocyte architecture implements a hybrid automaton for evidence accumulation

    Sep 14, 2026Giacomo Vedovati, Ilya E. Monosov, Thomas J. Papouin +1Neural DynamicsNeurons

    Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO 63130, USA · Department of Neuroscience, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218 USA · Department of Neuroscience, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO 63130, USA

  16. Theoretical Guarantees for One-Shot Magnitude Pruning and Compute-Adaptive Early Exit

    Sep 14, 2026Erdem KoyuncuUnstructured PruningDeep Network

    Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois Chicago, IL, USA.

  17. Pneumatic neurons for soft robots enable inflate-and-fire networks for rhythmic motion

    Sep 14, 2026Dongting Li, Michael Tolley, Nick GravishSoft RoboticsSingle Excitation Time History

    MAE Department, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093, US

  18. Distribution-aware Language Neuron Identification in Multilingual Large Language Models

    Sep 11, 2026Minjun Kim, Inho Won, Junghun Yuk +3Multilingual Language ModelsLanguage Modeling

    KAIST · KAIST InnoCORE PRISM-AI Center

  19. Phases in a class of associative memories via hidden neurons

    Sep 11, 2026Toshihiro Ota, Masato TakiHopfield NetworksNeurons

    CyberAgent AI Lab, Shibuya, Tokyo 150–0002, Japan · RIKEN iTHEMS, Wako, Saitama 351–0198, Japan · Graduate School of Artificial Intelligence and Science, Rikkyo University, Toshima, Tokyo 171–8501, Japan

  20. A Bio-Plausible Visual Neural Network for Locust-Inspired Collision Perception

    Sep 9, 2026Qinbing Fu, Jiani Li, Jiajun Huang +1PerceptionNeurons

    School of Mathematics and Information Science, Guangzhou University, China

  21. Axonal delay dispersion decides whether a neuron detects an event or a sequence, and predicts cortical column diameter

    Sep 3, 2026Cheng Bi, Jipeng SunSynaptic PlasticityNeurons

    Independent Researcher · Department of Computer Science, Princeton University

  22. GAPS: Dimension-Level Gates for Conditional Activation Steering

    Sep 1, 2026Moghis Fereidouni, Muhammad Umair Haider, Hassan Sajjad +1Linear Activation SteeringModel Activations

    University of Kentucky · Dalhousie University

  23. Sparse Competition during Training For the Emergence of Specialized Modules

    Aug 31, 2026Baptiste Rossigneux, Karim HarounNeuronsModular Framework

    Univ. Rennes · Inria, IRISA · University of Paris 8

  24. Do VLMs Share Safety Neurons Across Modalities?

    Aug 31, 2026Jiaxuan Li, Jiahao Zhang, Duc Minh Vo +3Multimodal BenchmarksNeurons

    SB Intuitions Corp., Tokyo, Japan

  25. Functional Degeneracy in Neural Networks: Measurement and Pruning

    Aug 31, 2026Maria Matveev, Pascal Esser, Ayush Bharadwaj +2Unstructured PruningNeural Network

    Department of Mathematics, LMU Munich · Munich Center for Machine Learning (MCML) · Independent +3

  26. "More Is Different'' in Neural Circuits: Algebraic Emergence of Effective Theories in Canonical Recurrent Motifs of Biological Neuronal Networks

    Aug 31, 2026Nima DehghaniNeural CircuitsNeurons

    McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA · The NSF AI Institute for Artificial Intelligence and Fundamental Interactions (IAIFI), Cambridge, Massachusetts, USAa)

  27. RACE: Scalable Statistical Estimation of Functional Consistency in LLM Neurons

    Aug 25, 2026Runyu Wang, Bo Liu, Xiaxin Zhang +6NeuronsMechanistic Interpretability

    School of Transportation and Civil Engineering, Nantong University · Chongqing University of Post and Telecommunications · China Southern Power Grid Company Limited +1

  28. Revenge of Monosemanticity: Neuron Specialization as a New Form of Feature Learning in MLPs

    Aug 25, 2026Amirhesam Abedsoltan, Enric Boix-Adsera, Fivos Kalogiannis +1Feature LearningMultilayer Perceptrons

    Department of Computer Science and Engineering, UC San Diego · Department of Statistics and Data Science, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania · Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute, UC San Diego

  29. Decodable But Not Detachable: Training Data Granularity Determines Parametric Modularity in Large Language Models

    Aug 10, 2026Marcus Armstrong, Navid Ayoobi, Arjun MukherjeeNeuronsSelectivity

    Department of Computer Science University of Houston Houston, TX 77204

  30. Multilingual Emotion Neurons in Large Audio-Language Models

    Aug 9, 2026Xiutian Zhao, Philipp Koehn, Björn Schuller +1Cross-Lingual ConsistencyLarge Audio Language Models

    Center for Language and Speech Processing (CLSP), Johns Hopkins University, USA · Group on Language, Audio & Music (GLAM), Imperial College London, UK

  31. SuperNeuroMAT: An Efficient Matrix-based Simulator for Spiking Neural Networks

    Aug 9, 2026Prasanna Date, Kevin Zhu, Shruti Kulkarni +12Spiking Neural NetworksNeuromorphic Computing

    Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, 37830, Tennessee, United States. · George Mason University, Fairfax, 22030, Virginia, United States. · University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Knoxville, 37996, Tennessee, United States. +1

  32. NeuPAT: Neuron-aware Plasticity Allocation Tuning for Language-Preserving MLLMs

    Aug 8, 2026Jiayue Jin, Jingwei Zhang, Chen Wang +2Large Language Model AdaptationMultimodal Large Language Models

    College of Intelligent Robotics and Advanced Manufacturing, Fudan University · Zhongguancun Academy · Tianjin University +3

  33. Learning in Deep Networks under Dale's Constraint

    Aug 7, 2026Roy Abel, Shimon UllmanNeural CircuitsNeurons

    Weizmann Institute of Science

  34. NeuroAdaptTrainer: A Fiji/ImageJ Plugin for YOLO-Based Neuron Segmentation, InteractiveCorrection and Transfer Learning

    Aug 5, 2026Daniela Eraso-Casas, Gerard Villarroya-Pique, Esther Serrano-Pertierra +4MicroscopyYolo26

    aComputer Sciences Department, University of Oviedo, Asturias, Spain · bElectrical Engineering Department, University of Oviedo, Asturias, Spain · cBiomedical Engineering Center (BME), University of Oviedo, Asturias, Spain +3

  35. No Single Neuron of Failure: Distributed Safety Alignment Against White-Box Attacks

    Aug 2, 2026Simiao Xie, Chuancheng Shi, Shangze Li +5Safety AlignmentNeurons

    The University of Sydney · NExT++ Research Centre, National University of Singapore

  36. SparseKAN: Compressing Kolmogorov--Arnold Networks Across Basis Functions, Neurons, and Bits

    Aug 1, 2026Kazi Ahmed Asif Fuad, Lizhong ChenKolmogorov-Arnold NetworksCompressed Model

    Department of EECS Oregon State University Corvallis, OR 97331

  37. SafeNexus: Discovering and Steering Modality-Universal Safety Neurons in MLLMs

    Jul 31, 2026Jian Yu, Fei Shen, Cong Wang +5Safety AlignmentMultimodal Large Language Models

    1Nanjing University of Science and Technology · 2National University of Singapore · 3Nanjing University +2

  38. Are the High-weight Neurons the Important Ones in Image Classification Neural Networks?

    Jul 28, 2026Qitao Chen, Dongfu Yin, F. Richard YuImportance WeightingNeurons

    WeBank Institute of FinTech, ShenZhen University, YueHai, ShenZhen, 518060, GuangDong, China. · Artificial Intelligence and Digital Economy Guangdong Provincial Laboratory, YuTang, ShenZhen, 518132, GuangDong, China.

  39. Calibrated Partial Resets: Preventing Policy Collapse in Continual Reinforcement Learning

    Jul 27, 2026Luc McCutcheon, Evangelos Chatzaroulas, Saber FallahReplay-Based Continual LearningPlasticity

    Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Surrey, United Kingdom · Department of Computing Science, University of Surrey, United Kingdom

  40. A Scale-adaptive Vision Model Links C. elegans Neuronal Morphology to Behavior for Neurotoxicity Assessment

    Jul 25, 2026Haochao Ying, Shenchong Lv, Yutao Sun +8MorphogenesisNeurons

    School of Public Health and Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, 310058, China. · State Key Laboratory of Transvascular Implantation Devices and TIDRI, Second Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, 310009, China. · Polytechnic Institute, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310058, China. +5

  41. Defense Against LLM Backdoors using Critical Neuron Isolation Pruning

    Jul 22, 2026Yuxi Li, Zhibo Zhang, Kailong Wang +3Attacker Large Language ModelClean Label Backdoor Attack

    Huazhong University of Science and Technology China · Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics China · Nanyang Technological University Singapore

  42. How the fly holds a single goal: normalization, not selection, in Drosophila FC2

    Jul 21, 2026Gioele Nanni, Christopher LeeNeuronsMorphogenesis

    Common Origin

  43. SelectInfer: Selective Neuron Loading and Computation for On-Device LLMs

    Jul 20, 2026Huzaifa Shaaban Kabakibo, Eric Schniedermeyer, Artem Burchanow +1LLM Inference OptimizationNeurons

    Department of Computer Networks, Paderborn University, Paderborn, Germany

  44. PRIME: Plasticity Recovery in Multi-Agent Environments for UAV-Assisted Emergency Communication Networks

    Jul 20, 2026Wen Qiu, Zhiqiang He, Wei Zhao +1Multi-Agent Reinforcement LearningMulti-Agent Planning

    Department of Information and Communication Engineering, Kitami Institute of Technology, Japan · Graduate School of Informatics and Engineering, University of Electro-Communications, Japan · School of Computer Science and Technology, Anhui University of Technology, China

  45. Are Arithmetic Heuristic Neurons Form-Invariant? A Mechanistic Analysis of Symbols, Text, and Code in LLMs

    Jul 18, 2026Sharath Naganna, Tanvir Ahmed Sijan, Uddipta KalitaLarge Language Models FailMechanistic Interpretability

    Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India · Jahangirnagar University, Dhaka, Bangladesh · National Institute of Technology, Silchar, India

  46. Moment-Resolved Readout and Reservoir Diversity in Nonequilibrium Langevin Computing

    Jul 16, 2026JiZheng Duan, MingYang Zhao, YanWei Chen +1Reservoir ComputingLangevin Dynamics

    Institute of Modern Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences

  47. Sparse Inter-Layer Dependencies of Transformer FFN Neurons

    Jul 13, 2026Johannes Knittel, Hanspeter PfisterTransformer AttentionFeed-Forward

    Harvard University

  48. Tracking Intermittent Particles with Self-Learned Visual Features

    Jul 10, 2026Raphael Reme, Victor Piriou, Alison Hanson +5Multi-Object TrackingMicroscopy

    IP Paris, BIA, IDS, IMAGES · Institut Pasteur, Universit´e de Paris-Cit´e, CNRS UMR 3691, BioImage Analysis Unit F-75015 Paris, France · LTCI, Telecom Paris, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, France +3

  49. Single-Entity Spiking Neuron Models: Survey

    Jul 8, 2026Leon Parepko, Danila Shulepin, Albert NasybullinNeuronsBiological

    Innopolis University Innopolis, Russia

  50. Distributed Sparse Interventions in Language Models

    Jul 8, 2026Maximilian S. Ernst, Lorenz Linhardt, Aaron Peikert +1Latent Feature InterventionsNeurons

    Max Planck School of Cognition · Center for Lifespan Psychology Max Planck Institute for Human Development · Machine Learning Group Technische Universität Berlin +5

  51. Faithfulness to Refusal: A Causal Audit of Neuron Selectors

    Jul 6, 2026Ananth Eswar, Pratinav Seth, Utsav Avaiya +1RefusalsCausal Intervention

    Lexsi Labs · Work done while at Lexsi Labs.

  52. Canonical quantization of neurons

    Jul 6, 2026Alexander He, Nana Liu, Mark M. WildeQuantum Neural NetworksHybrid Quantum-Classical Pipeline

    Department of Physics, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14850, USA · Institute of Natural Sciences, School of Mathematical Sciences, Ministry of Education Key Laboratory in Scientific and Engineering Computing, and Global College, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China · School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14850, USA

  53. Probe-EM: Targeted Neuron Tracing via Training-Free Semantic Verification

    Jul 6, 2026Liuyun Jiang, Yanchao Zhang, Jinyue Guo +5Human Connectome ProjectNeural Reconstruction

    State Key Laboratory of Brain Cognition and Brain-inspired Intelligence Technology, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China · School of Future Technology, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences · School of Artificial Intelligence, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences +1

  54. Neuromorphic Silicon Neuron Controller for Adaptive Deep Brain Stimulation in Parkinson's Disease

    Jul 5, 2026Md Abu Bakr Siddique, Jakub Orłowski, Yan Zhang +1Adaptive Deep Brain StimulationNeuromorphic Computing

    Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, Michigan, USA · School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland · Department of Biological Sciences, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, Michigan, USA

  55. NKI-Agent: Domain-Specific Fine-Tuning and Agentic Tool Use for Neuron Kernel Generation

    Jul 5, 2026Junjie Tang, Jun Huan, Hao Zhou +2Graphics Processing Unit KernelsCuda

    Amazon Web Services

  56. Can Dialects Be Steered Like Languages? Sparse Neurons and Distributed Directions in Arabic LLMs

    Jul 4, 2026Kareem Elozeiri, Mervat Abassy, Omar Kallas +4Arabic Natural Language ProcessingDialects

    1Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence · 2Qatar Computing Research Institute, Hamad Bin Khalifa University · 3Tohoku University +1

  57. Rank-Order N-of-M Codes for Sparse Distributed Memory: Disentangling Representation and Learning Effects in Noise Robustness Against Contemporary Neuromorphic Architectures

    Jul 3, 2026Joy BoseNeuromorphic ComputingHebbian Learning

    Independent Researcher Bengaluru, India

  58. Electronic Bursting Neuron: design, equations and hardware implementation

    Jul 2, 2026Lev V. Takaishvili, Vladimir I. Ponomarenko, Maksim V. Kornilov +1NeuronsCircuits

    1Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University, Russia · 2Saratov Branch of Kotelnikov Institute of Radioengineering and Electronics of RAS, Russia · 3Saratov State University, Russia

  59. Frequency Shift Physics-Informed Extreme Learning Machine for Solving High-Frequency Partial Differential Equations

    Jul 2, 2026Xiong Xiong, Ruonan Zhai, Zheng Zeng +3Partial Differential EquationsHigh-Frequency Reconstruction

    School of Mathematics and Statistics, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an, 710072, China · MIIT Key Laboratory of Dynamics and Control of Complex Systems, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an, 710072, China · College of Science, Shijiazhuang University, Shijiazhuang, 050035, China +2

  60. BrainFIBRE: A Foundation Model via Information Decomposition for Brain Microstructure

    Jul 1, 2026Zijian Dong, Yi Lin, Ji Fang +3NeuronsFoundation Model

    National University of Singapore, Singapore