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FlyVision model inspired by fruit fly connectome shows strong vision performance

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Researchers have developed ConnectomeX, a trainable architecture inspired by the Drosophila visual connectome, designed to improve general-purpose computer vision. This model, named FlyVision, preserves biological processing elements like parallel ON/OFF processing and recurrent computation. FlyVision has demonstrated competitive performance on various benchmarks including MNIST, CIFAR-10, and ImageNet-1K, often with significantly fewer parameters than established models like ResNet18. Furthermore, FlyVision has been adapted for biomedical imaging tasks, showing promise in skin disease classification and predicting age from brain MRI scans. AI

IMPACT This research demonstrates how biological connectomes can inform AI architectures, potentially leading to more efficient and capable computer vision models for both general and specialized tasks.

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  1. arXiv cs.LG TIER_1 English(EN) · Joonghui Cho, Minchan Kang, Daeshik Kim ·

    A Drosophila Whole-Connectome Network Can Learn Human-Designed Cognitive Tasks

    arXiv:2610.10014v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Can a biological wiring diagram serve as a useful computational substrate beyond the behaviors for which it evolved? We use the publicly released MaleCNS v1.0 connectome, reconstructed from a single adult male Drosophila specimen, a…

  2. arXiv cs.LG TIER_1 English(EN) · Eudald Correig-Fraga, Roger Guimer\`a, Marta Sales-Pardo ·

    Structure alone supports efficient visual computation in the Drosophila visual system

    arXiv:2610.10023v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Understanding the extent to which measured synaptic wiring determines computation remains a central challenge. Here, we couple the proofread adult Drosophila melanogaster connectome to an anatomically faithful model of its eye. Vi…

  3. arXiv cs.NE (Neural & Evolutionary) TIER_1 English(EN) · for the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative ·

    From the Drosophila Visual Connectome to General-Purpose Computer Vision

    Biological connectomes encode structured solutions to visual computation that may provide reusable inductive biases for artificial vision. We develop ConnectomeX around FlyVision, a trainable architecture that preserves parallel ON/OFF processing, recurrent computation and popula…

  4. arXiv cs.CV TIER_1 English(EN) · Zongyu Li, Akito Yamauchi, Huaizhi Liu, Vishwanatha Rao, Jia Guo, for the Frontotemporal Lobar Degeneration Neuroimaging Initiative, for the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative ·

    From the Drosophila Visual Connectome to General-Purpose Computer Vision

    arXiv:2610.08418v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Biological connectomes encode structured solutions to visual computation that may provide reusable inductive biases for artificial vision. We develop ConnectomeX around FlyVision, a trainable architecture that preserves parallel ON/…

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