Community Event

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The Algonauts Project 2025 Challenge

Alessandro Gifford, Domenic Bersch, Marie St-Laurent, Basile Pinsard, Julie Boyle, Lune Bellec, Aude Oliva, Gemma Roig, Radoslaw Cichy

The Algonauts Project, first launched in 2019, is on a mission to bring biological and machine intelligence researchers together on a common platform to exchange ideas and pioneer the intelligence frontier. Inspired by the astronauts’ exploration of space, “algonauts” explore human and artificial intelligence with state-of-the-art algorithmic tools, thus advancing both fields.

The Algonauts Project 2025 challenge focuses on predicting responses in the human brain as participants perceive complex multimodal naturalistic movies. To enable data-hungry modeling, the challenge runs on data from CNeuroMod (https://www.cneuromod.ca/), the largest suitable brain dataset available–almost 80 hours of neural recordings for each of 4 human participants. To ensure the robustness and relevance of results, the challenge features a model selection process based on out-of-distribution evaluation.

During the first part of this session, the Algonauts project and challenge will be introduced, followed by talks by this year’s challenge winners. The second part of the session will be a panel discussion on challenges in cognitive computational neuroscience moderated by Alessandro Gifford, including the participation of Andreas Tolias, Fabian Sinz, Martin Schrimpf, Lune Bellec, and Radoslaw Cichy. The audience participation in the panel discussion is encouraged through both in-person contributions or digital engagement.

More information at https://algonautsproject.com/