Optic-lobe steering
MaleCNS optic lobe (65.8k neurons) as a WebGPU rate model: the fly renders 1,771 column directions and the wiring becomes wing commands.
Neurons are simulated — leaky integrate-and-fire or better — with documented, tuned parameters.
Dispute this rating →The evidence
No evidence, no level.The runtime neuron model is a leaky rate unit with per-unit time constant and bias, stated as an equation in the source.
https://github.com/AbijahKaj/fruit-fly-brain-research/blob/c28066a5b9eff03efdb002f6779980d29f70634c/app/src/brain/rate-net.ts#L1-L11The integration step reads the weight array to compute drive and never writes to it; only x and r change.
https://github.com/AbijahKaj/fruit-fly-brain-research/blob/c28066a5b9eff03efdb002f6779980d29f70634c/app/src/brain/rate-net.ts#L52-L71Gradient training optimises per-cell-type tau/bias and per-type-pair strength offline, not individual connectome synapses at run time.
https://github.com/AbijahKaj/fruit-fly-brain-research/blob/c28066a5b9eff03efdb002f6779980d29f70634c/train/graph_torch.py#L96-L119
The shipped browser model is a documented leaky rate network over the MaleCNS optic lobe: tau_i dx_i/dt = -x_i + wScale * sum_j W_ij r_j + ext_i + bias_i, with per-cell-type tau and bias taken from flyvis and a rectified rate ceiling. Not L2: the step function reads the weight array and never writes it, so nothing changes synaptically while the fly is steering. The repo does contain PyTorch training (Adam, loss.backward()) that fits log_tau, bias and a per-cell-type-pair log_strength, but this is the most common near-miss on the scale rather than plasticity: it is offline, it optimises a few hundred type-level parameters instead of individual synapses, it is driven by a gradient rather than a modeled neuromodulator, and it bakes fixed values into the weights the browser then loads and holds constant.
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All projects →MaleCNS simulation connected to ViZDoom through modeled visual inputs and a fixed button readout. Includes plasticity experiments and negative validation results; learned survival has not been demonstrated.
Research framework comparing a MaleCNS-constrained sparse recurrent controller with rewired graphs, conventional neural networks, and other controls on simple VizDoom tasks.
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