Contents
PMLR Volume 320 · 10 papers
The issue was published in April 2026 as Volume 320 of the Proceedings of Machine Learning Research, under the title Proceedings of the Analytical Connectionism Schools 2023–2024. It collects ten sets of peer-reviewed lecture notes written by participants of the 2023 and 2024 schools together with the lecturers whose material they cover, spanning attractor networks, the statistical physics of learning, semantic cognition, parallel processing, reinforcement learning, natural image statistics, neural population dynamics, the statistics of natural experience, natural intelligence, and hippocampal computation.
- Models of attractor dynamics in the brain
- Thinking of neural networks like a physicist: the statistical physics of machine learning
- An introduction to connectionist theories of semantic cognition
- On the impact of representation sharing on parallel processing in neural network architectures
- Reinforcement learning: computational modeling of learning and decision-making
- Natural image statistics, visual representation, and denoising
- Unifying neural population dynamics, manifold geometry, and circuit structure
- The statistics of natural experience
- A computational basis of natural intelligence
- From place cells to predictive codes: lecture notes on the dynamic hippocampus
Curators

Chi-Ning Chou
New York University & Flatiron Institute

SueYeon Chung
New York University & Flatiron Institute

Peter Latham
University College London

Francesca Mignacco
City University of New York & Princeton University

Stefano Sarao Mannelli
Chalmers University of Technology & University of Gothenburg

Andrew Saxe
University College London