Milena Rmus
@milenamr7.bsky.social
an aspiring human
doing AI/cogsci research most of the time
learning how to tattoo some of the time
https://milenaccnlab.github.io/
doing AI/cogsci research most of the time
learning how to tattoo some of the time
https://milenaccnlab.github.io/
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🚀 We are hiring! 🚀
🔍 Join us as a Postdoctoral Researcher (fully-funded) at the Helmholtz Institute for Human-Centered AI in Munich.
🔍 Join us as a Postdoctoral Researcher (fully-funded) at the Helmholtz Institute for Human-Centered AI in Munich.
November 3, 2025 at 10:24 AM
🚀 We are hiring! 🚀
🔍 Join us as a Postdoctoral Researcher (fully-funded) at the Helmholtz Institute for Human-Centered AI in Munich.
🔍 Join us as a Postdoctoral Researcher (fully-funded) at the Helmholtz Institute for Human-Centered AI in Munich.
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What influences whether people have fun with a task?
Our paper “Leveling up fun: learning progress, expectations and success influence enjoyment in video games” with @thecharleywu.bsky.social and @ericschulz.bsky.social now in Scientific Reports!
rdcu.be/eI069
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Our paper “Leveling up fun: learning progress, expectations and success influence enjoyment in video games” with @thecharleywu.bsky.social and @ericschulz.bsky.social now in Scientific Reports!
rdcu.be/eI069
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Leveling up fun: learning progress, expectations, and success influence enjoyment in video games
Scientific Reports - Leveling up fun: learning progress, expectations, and success influence enjoyment in video games
rdcu.be
October 2, 2025 at 9:32 AM
What influences whether people have fun with a task?
Our paper “Leveling up fun: learning progress, expectations and success influence enjoyment in video games” with @thecharleywu.bsky.social and @ericschulz.bsky.social now in Scientific Reports!
rdcu.be/eI069
Paper summary below 1/4
Our paper “Leveling up fun: learning progress, expectations and success influence enjoyment in video games” with @thecharleywu.bsky.social and @ericschulz.bsky.social now in Scientific Reports!
rdcu.be/eI069
Paper summary below 1/4
Also happy to announce that our Automated scientific minimization of regret paper got accepted to the AI4Science workshop at #NeurIPS - arxiv.org/abs/2505.17661 with @marcelbinz.bsky.social, @akjagadish.bsky.social & @ericschulz.bsky.social
September 30, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Also happy to announce that our Automated scientific minimization of regret paper got accepted to the AI4Science workshop at #NeurIPS - arxiv.org/abs/2505.17661 with @marcelbinz.bsky.social, @akjagadish.bsky.social & @ericschulz.bsky.social
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New in @pnas.org: doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
We study how humans explore a 61-state environment with a stochastic region that mimics a “noisy-TV.”
Results: Participants keep exploring the stochastic part even when it’s unhelpful, and novelty-seeking best explains this behavior.
#cogsci #neuroskyence
We study how humans explore a 61-state environment with a stochastic region that mimics a “noisy-TV.”
Results: Participants keep exploring the stochastic part even when it’s unhelpful, and novelty-seeking best explains this behavior.
#cogsci #neuroskyence
September 28, 2025 at 11:07 AM
New in @pnas.org: doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
We study how humans explore a 61-state environment with a stochastic region that mimics a “noisy-TV.”
Results: Participants keep exploring the stochastic part even when it’s unhelpful, and novelty-seeking best explains this behavior.
#cogsci #neuroskyence
We study how humans explore a 61-state environment with a stochastic region that mimics a “noisy-TV.”
Results: Participants keep exploring the stochastic part even when it’s unhelpful, and novelty-seeking best explains this behavior.
#cogsci #neuroskyence
Happy to announce our paper got accepted to #NeurIPS!
@akjagadish.bsky.social @marvinmathony.bsky.social @ericschulz.bsky.social & Tobi Ludwig
arxiv.org/abs/2502.00879
@akjagadish.bsky.social @marvinmathony.bsky.social @ericschulz.bsky.social & Tobi Ludwig
arxiv.org/abs/2502.00879
Generating Computational Cognitive Models using Large Language Models
Computational cognitive models, which formalize theories of cognition, enable researchers to quantify cognitive processes and arbitrate between competing theories by fitting models to behavioral data....
arxiv.org
September 22, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Happy to announce our paper got accepted to #NeurIPS!
@akjagadish.bsky.social @marvinmathony.bsky.social @ericschulz.bsky.social & Tobi Ludwig
arxiv.org/abs/2502.00879
@akjagadish.bsky.social @marvinmathony.bsky.social @ericschulz.bsky.social & Tobi Ludwig
arxiv.org/abs/2502.00879
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Excited to see our Centaur project out in @nature.com.
TL;DR: Centaur is a computational model that predicts and simulates human behavior for any experiment described in natural language.
TL;DR: Centaur is a computational model that predicts and simulates human behavior for any experiment described in natural language.
July 2, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Excited to see our Centaur project out in @nature.com.
TL;DR: Centaur is a computational model that predicts and simulates human behavior for any experiment described in natural language.
TL;DR: Centaur is a computational model that predicts and simulates human behavior for any experiment described in natural language.
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Does the brain learn by gradient descent?
It's a pleasure to share our paper at @cp-cell.bsky.social, showing how mice learning over long timescales display key hallmarks of gradient descent (GD).
The culmination of my PhD supervised by @laklab.bsky.social, @saxelab.bsky.social and Rafal Bogacz!
It's a pleasure to share our paper at @cp-cell.bsky.social, showing how mice learning over long timescales display key hallmarks of gradient descent (GD).
The culmination of my PhD supervised by @laklab.bsky.social, @saxelab.bsky.social and Rafal Bogacz!
Dopamine encodes deep network teaching signals for individual learning trajectories
Longitudinal tracking of long-term learning behavior and striatal dopamine reveals
that dopamine teaching signals shape individually diverse yet systematic learning
trajectories, captured mathematical...
www.cell.com
June 15, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Does the brain learn by gradient descent?
It's a pleasure to share our paper at @cp-cell.bsky.social, showing how mice learning over long timescales display key hallmarks of gradient descent (GD).
The culmination of my PhD supervised by @laklab.bsky.social, @saxelab.bsky.social and Rafal Bogacz!
It's a pleasure to share our paper at @cp-cell.bsky.social, showing how mice learning over long timescales display key hallmarks of gradient descent (GD).
The culmination of my PhD supervised by @laklab.bsky.social, @saxelab.bsky.social and Rafal Bogacz!
Preprint update, co-led with @akjagadish.bsky.social, with @marvinmathony.bsky.social, Tobias Ludwig and @ericschulz.bsky.social!
Generating Computational Cognitive Models using Large Language Models
Computational cognitive models, which formalize theories of cognition, enable researchers to quantify cognitive processes and arbitrate between competing theories by fitting models to behavioral data....
arxiv.org
May 26, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Preprint update, co-led with @akjagadish.bsky.social, with @marvinmathony.bsky.social, Tobias Ludwig and @ericschulz.bsky.social!
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🚨 New in Nature Human Behavior! 🚨
Binary climate data visuals amplify perceived impact of climate change.
Both graphs in this image reflect equivalent climate change trends over time, yet people consistently perceive climate change as having a greater impact in the right plot than the left.
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Binary climate data visuals amplify perceived impact of climate change.
Both graphs in this image reflect equivalent climate change trends over time, yet people consistently perceive climate change as having a greater impact in the right plot than the left.
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April 17, 2025 at 6:03 PM
🚨 New in Nature Human Behavior! 🚨
Binary climate data visuals amplify perceived impact of climate change.
Both graphs in this image reflect equivalent climate change trends over time, yet people consistently perceive climate change as having a greater impact in the right plot than the left.
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Binary climate data visuals amplify perceived impact of climate change.
Both graphs in this image reflect equivalent climate change trends over time, yet people consistently perceive climate change as having a greater impact in the right plot than the left.
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We are looking for two PhD students at our institute in Munich.
Both postions are open-topic, so anything between cognitive science and machine learning is possible.
More information: hcai-munich.com/PhDHCAI.pdf
Feel free to share broadly!
Both postions are open-topic, so anything between cognitive science and machine learning is possible.
More information: hcai-munich.com/PhDHCAI.pdf
Feel free to share broadly!
hcai-munich.com
April 9, 2025 at 12:11 PM
We are looking for two PhD students at our institute in Munich.
Both postions are open-topic, so anything between cognitive science and machine learning is possible.
More information: hcai-munich.com/PhDHCAI.pdf
Feel free to share broadly!
Both postions are open-topic, so anything between cognitive science and machine learning is possible.
More information: hcai-munich.com/PhDHCAI.pdf
Feel free to share broadly!
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Nestlé Buys E.Coli For $2.3 Billion
Nestlé Buys E.Coli For $2.3 Billion
VEVEY, SWITZERLAND—With the food conglomerate saying the acquisition made sense given its longstanding strategic partnership with the pathogen, Nestlé released a statement Friday confirming it had pur...
theonion.com
April 8, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Nestlé Buys E.Coli For $2.3 Billion
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very happy to be presenting this at @cosynemeeting.bsky.social
About a month late posting this, but here's a new project with @ericschulz.bsky.social, @akjagadish.bsky.social, @marvinmathony.bsky.social and Tobias Ludwig
We are using LLMs to propose cognitive models in learning and decision making data. Presenting this work at RLDM!
arxiv.org/abs/2502.00879
We are using LLMs to propose cognitive models in learning and decision making data. Presenting this work at RLDM!
arxiv.org/abs/2502.00879
Towards Automation of Cognitive Modeling using Large Language Models
Computational cognitive models, which formalize theories of cognition, enable researchers to quantify cognitive processes and arbitrate between competing theories by fitting models to behavioral data....
arxiv.org
March 23, 2025 at 8:26 PM
very happy to be presenting this at @cosynemeeting.bsky.social
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Son-Of-A-Bitch Mouse Solves Maze Researchers Spent Months Building
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March 1, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Son-Of-A-Bitch Mouse Solves Maze Researchers Spent Months Building
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Every experience is unique 🌟 light shifts, angles change, yet we recognize objects effortlessly. How do our minds do this? And (how) do they differ from machines? In our new preprint with @ericschulz.bsky.social, we review human generalization and compare it to machine generalization: osf.io/k6ect
February 28, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Every experience is unique 🌟 light shifts, angles change, yet we recognize objects effortlessly. How do our minds do this? And (how) do they differ from machines? In our new preprint with @ericschulz.bsky.social, we review human generalization and compare it to machine generalization: osf.io/k6ect
About a month late posting this, but here's a new project with @ericschulz.bsky.social, @akjagadish.bsky.social, @marvinmathony.bsky.social and Tobias Ludwig
We are using LLMs to propose cognitive models in learning and decision making data. Presenting this work at RLDM!
arxiv.org/abs/2502.00879
We are using LLMs to propose cognitive models in learning and decision making data. Presenting this work at RLDM!
arxiv.org/abs/2502.00879
Towards Automation of Cognitive Modeling using Large Language Models
Computational cognitive models, which formalize theories of cognition, enable researchers to quantify cognitive processes and arbitrate between competing theories by fitting models to behavioral data....
arxiv.org
February 26, 2025 at 10:08 AM
About a month late posting this, but here's a new project with @ericschulz.bsky.social, @akjagadish.bsky.social, @marvinmathony.bsky.social and Tobias Ludwig
We are using LLMs to propose cognitive models in learning and decision making data. Presenting this work at RLDM!
arxiv.org/abs/2502.00879
We are using LLMs to propose cognitive models in learning and decision making data. Presenting this work at RLDM!
arxiv.org/abs/2502.00879
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The DOGE firings have nothing to do with “efficiency” or “cutting waste.” They’re a direct push to weaken federal agencies perceived as liberal. This was evident from the start, and now the data confirms it: targeted agencies overwhelmingly those seen as more left-leaning. 🧵⬇️
February 20, 2025 at 2:18 AM
The DOGE firings have nothing to do with “efficiency” or “cutting waste.” They’re a direct push to weaken federal agencies perceived as liberal. This was evident from the start, and now the data confirms it: targeted agencies overwhelmingly those seen as more left-leaning. 🧵⬇️
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Check out our new work from Jennifer Senta, with Sonia Bishop, looking at how physiological anxiety relates to impairments in both working memory and reinforcement learning processes
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Dual process impairments in reinforcement learning and working memory systems underlie learning deficits in physiological anxiety
Anxiety has been robustly linked to deficits in frontal executive function including working memory (WM) and attentional control processes. However, although anxiety has also been associated with impa...
www.biorxiv.org
February 19, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Check out our new work from Jennifer Senta, with Sonia Bishop, looking at how physiological anxiety relates to impairments in both working memory and reinforcement learning processes
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Not one, but TWO cool preprints by Jennifer Senta!
First preprint (with Anne Collins, Peter Dayan and Sonia Bishop) has a really cool use of modeling aimed at dissociating mechanisms underlying depression and anxiety-related phenotypes:
osf.io/preprints/ps...
First preprint (with Anne Collins, Peter Dayan and Sonia Bishop) has a really cool use of modeling aimed at dissociating mechanisms underlying depression and anxiety-related phenotypes:
osf.io/preprints/ps...
OSF
osf.io
February 17, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Not one, but TWO cool preprints by Jennifer Senta!
First preprint (with Anne Collins, Peter Dayan and Sonia Bishop) has a really cool use of modeling aimed at dissociating mechanisms underlying depression and anxiety-related phenotypes:
osf.io/preprints/ps...
First preprint (with Anne Collins, Peter Dayan and Sonia Bishop) has a really cool use of modeling aimed at dissociating mechanisms underlying depression and anxiety-related phenotypes:
osf.io/preprints/ps...
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In our latest article, published in @pnas.org and led by @marcelbinz.bsky.social and Stephan Alaniz, we got together four diverse groups of scientists to reflect on how LLMs should affect science. From treating them like co-authors to using other tools instead, many interesting arguments emerged.
January 29, 2025 at 9:11 AM
In our latest article, published in @pnas.org and led by @marcelbinz.bsky.social and Stephan Alaniz, we got together four diverse groups of scientists to reflect on how LLMs should affect science. From treating them like co-authors to using other tools instead, many interesting arguments emerged.
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What do you suppose they are talking about?
December 19, 2024 at 11:23 AM
What do you suppose they are talking about?
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Hi new followers! 👋 My lab has lots of projects underway studying why *mental behavior* goes off the rails — leading to thinking patterns like rumination and worry 🌀 — and how we can make it more effective.
* Sketch of our approach: tinyurl.com/r3tvmbn9
* Lab website: www.translational-lab.com
* Sketch of our approach: tinyurl.com/r3tvmbn9
* Lab website: www.translational-lab.com
Home
The Translational Lab focuses on when and why decision-making goes awry in depression and anxiety disorders and on developing potent and scalable interventions to improve it.
We leverage careful expe...
www.translational-lab.com
November 21, 2024 at 12:25 PM
Hi new followers! 👋 My lab has lots of projects underway studying why *mental behavior* goes off the rails — leading to thinking patterns like rumination and worry 🌀 — and how we can make it more effective.
* Sketch of our approach: tinyurl.com/r3tvmbn9
* Lab website: www.translational-lab.com
* Sketch of our approach: tinyurl.com/r3tvmbn9
* Lab website: www.translational-lab.com
I don't use this app to post contemplative things, but... since the application deadlines for graduate school are approaching (some might have already passed?) here are some musings that have been churning in my noggin for years now that I would like to dump somewhere
November 19, 2024 at 7:12 PM
I don't use this app to post contemplative things, but... since the application deadlines for graduate school are approaching (some might have already passed?) here are some musings that have been churning in my noggin for years now that I would like to dump somewhere
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🚨Preprint alert🚨
In an amazing collaboration with @lucasgruaz.bsky.social, S Becker, & J Brea, we explored a major puzzle in #neuroscience & #psychology:
**What are the merits of curiosity?** 🧠🧑🔬🧪
osf.io/preprints/ps...
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In an amazing collaboration with @lucasgruaz.bsky.social, S Becker, & J Brea, we explored a major puzzle in #neuroscience & #psychology:
**What are the merits of curiosity?** 🧠🧑🔬🧪
osf.io/preprints/ps...
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OSF
osf.io
November 18, 2024 at 2:03 PM
🚨Preprint alert🚨
In an amazing collaboration with @lucasgruaz.bsky.social, S Becker, & J Brea, we explored a major puzzle in #neuroscience & #psychology:
**What are the merits of curiosity?** 🧠🧑🔬🧪
osf.io/preprints/ps...
1/7
In an amazing collaboration with @lucasgruaz.bsky.social, S Becker, & J Brea, we explored a major puzzle in #neuroscience & #psychology:
**What are the merits of curiosity?** 🧠🧑🔬🧪
osf.io/preprints/ps...
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