# Neural Networks — Research Brief

**Topic slug:** `neural-networks`
**Generated:** 2026-08-23T08:47:45Z
**Articles indexed (all-time):** 1259
**Articles in last 30 days:** 100
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## Top entities mentioned

- **arXiv** — 28 articles
- **GitHub** — 5 articles
- **FlyWire** — 3 articles
- **DesktopFly** — 3 articles
- **DenisSergeevitch** — 2 articles
- **macOS** — 2 articles
- **MIT** — 2 articles
- **The Journal of Neuroscience** — 2 articles
- **SIREN** — 2 articles
- **MNIST** — 2 articles
- **UCI** — 2 articles
- **KEEL** — 2 articles
- **DeepONet** — 2 articles
- **University College London** — 2 articles
- **Massachusetts Institute of Technology** — 2 articles


## Top sources

- arxiv.org — 27 articles
- machinebrief.com — 17 articles
- dev.to — 8 articles
- github.com — 6 articles
- psypost.org — 5 articles
- pub.towardsai.net — 5 articles
- promptcube3.com — 4 articles
- nautil.us — 3 articles
- sciencedaily.com — 2 articles
- en.wikipedia.org — 2 articles


## Timeline — last 30 days (100 articles)

- **2026-08-23** — Backpropagation by Hand: Two Layers, a Pen, and Then Autograd Agrees [dev.to] (https://dev.to/pytorchfromgroundup/backpropagation-by-hand-two-layers-a-pen-and-then-autograd-agrees-13i6)
- **2026-08-23** — Show HN: Ditdah – A Morse App for the Terminal [encse.github.io] (https://encse.github.io/ditdah/)
- **2026-08-22** — A Step by Step Backpropagation Example [mattmazur.com] (https://mattmazur.com/2015/03/17/a-step-by-step-backpropagation-example/)
- **2026-08-22** — Putting mice into hibernation causes a major loss of synapses [arstechnica.com] (https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/08/memories-stick-around-even-after-half-the-synapses-are-gone/)
- **2026-08-22** — AI Is Rewriting Mathematics [nofilk.substack.com] (https://nofilk.substack.com/p/ai-is-rewriting-mathematics)
- **2026-08-21** — Genuine Intelligence will never in trillion years emerge from neural networks. [dev.to] (https://dev.to/wiseai/genuine-intelligence-will-never-in-trillion-years-emerge-from-neural-networks-1250)
- **2026-08-21** — Show HN: A desktop fly drawn to the scent of vibecode [github.com] (https://github.com/kulikov0/desktop-vibe-fly)
- **2026-08-21** — AI Can See Optical Illusions [nautil.us] (https://nautil.us/ai-can-see-optical-illusions-1284064/)
- **2026-08-21** — The Human Brain Versus AI: Similar Results, Very Different Machines [eetimes.com] (https://www.eetimes.com/the-human-brain-versus-ai-similar-results-very-different-machines/)
- **2026-08-21** — Cognition and consciousness arise from analog computations, says new theory [picower.mit.edu] (https://picower.mit.edu/news/cognition-and-consciousness-arise-analog-computations-says-new-theory)
- **2026-08-21** — K\"ahler landscapes for complex neural network descents and guarantees including a search and destroy of the Calabi-Yau manifold [machinebrief.com] (https://www.machinebrief.com/news/kahler-landscapes-for-complex-neural-network-descents-and-gu-ckj0)
- **2026-08-21** — Complementary, Not Cumulative: Interaction Effects in Physics-Informed Neural Networks for Navier-Stokes Vortex Shedding [machinebrief.com] (https://www.machinebrief.com/news/complementary-not-cumulative-interaction-effects-in-physics-ckst)
- **2026-08-21** — In Two Minds about Lifelong Learning: Exploring Hemispheric Redundancy and Specialisation in Neural Models [machinebrief.com] (https://www.machinebrief.com/news/in-two-minds-about-lifelong-learning-exploring-hemispheric-r-cjtd)
- **2026-08-21** — Decoding silent reading from non-invasive EEG [machinebrief.com] (https://www.machinebrief.com/news/decoding-silent-reading-from-non-invasive-eeg-cqux)
- **2026-08-20** — Ability Neurotech Infrared BCI to Begin Human Trials [spectrum.ieee.org] (https://spectrum.ieee.org/ability-neurotech-bci-human-trial)
- **2026-08-20** — Analog Cognition and Consciousness [doi.org] (https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0711-26.2026)
- **2026-08-20** — ONNX.css – Neural network inference using stylesheets [onnx.css.evanking.io] (https://onnx.css.evanking.io/)
- **2026-08-20** — Bidirectional representational alignment between biological and artificial neural networks [arxiv.org] (https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.18244)
- **2026-08-20** — Beyond LLM-Based Reasoning: Lightweight GNNs for Agent Failure Attribution [machinebrief.com] (https://www.machinebrief.com/news/beyond-llm-based-reasoning-lightweight-gnns-for-agent-failur-tx0s)
- **2026-08-20** — Universality of Gradient Descent Neural Network Training [arxiv.org] (https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.13664)
- **2026-08-19** — Childhood ADHD is linked to distinct developmental changes in brain white matter [psypost.org] (https://www.psypost.org/childhood-adhd-is-linked-to-distinct-developmental-changes-in-brain-white-matter/)
- **2026-08-19** — Kimi K3 Attention Residuals [promptcube3.com] (https://promptcube3.com/en/threads/6947/)
- **2026-08-19** — What a Blissful Psychedelic Trip Looks Like Inside the Brain [nautil.us] (https://nautil.us/what-a-blissful-psychedelic-trip-looks-like-inside-the-brain-1283982/)
- **2026-08-19** — Can a sole author skip the ICONIP 2026 in-person presentation? [promptcube3.com] (https://promptcube3.com/en/news/6883/)
- **2026-08-19** — RoBell-RVFL: A Robust Generalized Bell Random Vector Functional Link Network [arxiv.org] (https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.16965)
- **2026-08-19** — Creating a Multilayer Perceptron from Scratch [pub.towardsai.net] (https://pub.towardsai.net/creating-a-multilayer-perceptron-from-scratch-ef428c4d684a?source=rss----98111c9905da---4)
- **2026-08-18** — DesktopFly gives macOS a fruit fly driven by 668 mapped neurons [runtimewire.com] (https://runtimewire.com/article/desktopfly-macos-fruit-fly-flywire-connectome)
- **2026-08-18** — A 3D fruit fly on macOS desktop powered by the real FlyWire connectome [github.com] (https://github.com/DenisSergeevitch/desktop-fly)
- **2026-08-18** — SineKAN might actually beat B-splines for certain KAN tasks [promptcube3.com] (https://promptcube3.com/en/news/6836/)
- **2026-08-18** — Mysterious waves sweeping across your brain may help turn sensory chaos into what you see [sciencedaily.com] (https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/08/260816044827.htm)
- **2026-08-18** — PIKFNO: An Interpretable Neural Operator Based on Physics Informed Kernel Function [arxiv.org] (https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.14619)
- **2026-08-18** — Fractional Optimizers Meet Fractal Activation Functions: An Empirical Study of Multi-Scale Optimization in Neural Network [arxiv.org] (https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.14636)
- **2026-08-18** — Randomly initialized autoencoders: fixed points and edge-of-chaos [arxiv.org] (https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.14638)
- **2026-08-18** — BDIP-Net: Dual-Interaction Graph Learning for Property Prediction of Bilayer Materials [arxiv.org] (https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.14640)
- **2026-08-18** — Position: Certified Correctness in Neural Constraint Reasoning Requires Symbolic Integration [arxiv.org] (https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.14569)
- **2026-08-18** — Why Binary Cross Entropy? [pub.towardsai.net] (https://pub.towardsai.net/why-binary-cross-entropy-110ce2865463?source=rss----98111c9905da---4)
- **2026-08-17** — AI Fundamentals: Understanding Activation Functions (Part 2) [pub.towardsai.net] (https://pub.towardsai.net/ai-fundamentals-understanding-activation-functions-part-2-ac15aa63b15b?source=rss----98111c9905da---4)
- **2026-08-17** — I measured my brain during one of the hardest business trips of my year. Here’s what I learned about performance [fastcompany.com] (https://www.fastcompany.com/91580367/i-measured-my-brain-during-one-of-the-hardest-business-trips-of-my-year-heres-what-i-learned-about-performance-neuroscience-mental-performance-brain)
- **2026-08-17** — A Risk-Style Take on the Turkish War of Independence [github.com] (https://github.com/dashersw/independence)
- **2026-08-17** — Handwritten Digit Classification with Neural Cultures [biorxiv.org] (https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.08.10.743829v1)
- **2026-08-17** — CoANeRV: Coordinate-Aware Token-Space Neural Video Representation [arxiv.org] (https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.13938)
- **2026-08-17** — Robust Dual-Model Collaborative Random Vector Functional Link Network [arxiv.org] (https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.13628)
- **2026-08-17** — SAGE: Surrogate-gradient Adaptation via Attention-Guided Entropy for Spiking Transformers [arxiv.org] (https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.13702)
- **2026-08-17** — CutClean: Neural Network Pruning for Privacy-Preserving Inference [arxiv.org] (https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.13773)
- **2026-08-17** — HI-MeshGraphNets: Efficient and Accurate Mesh-based Physics Learning with Hierarchical Multi-scale Graph Neural Networks [arxiv.org] (https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.13827)
- **2026-08-17** — Batch-wise Adaptive Pruning: Periodic Neuron Activation-Aware Weight Pruning for Language Reasoning Model [arxiv.org] (https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.14003)
- **2026-08-17** — BCIJelly: An integrated ecosystem for brain-computer interface research [machinebrief.com] (https://www.machinebrief.com/news/bcijelly-an-integrated-ecosystem-for-brain-computer-interfac-hx7w)
- **2026-08-16** — The Memory Machine: How Two Researchers Taught Neural Networks to Remember [pub.towardsai.net] (https://pub.towardsai.net/the-memory-machine-how-two-researchers-taught-neural-networks-to-remember-d3074f46eb93?source=rss----98111c9905da---4)
- **2026-08-16** — The experience of mathematical beauty and its neural correlates (2014) [pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov] (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24592230/)
- **2026-08-16** — From Neural Networks to LLMs: The Mental Model I Was Missing [dev.to] (https://dev.to/priyankaa/from-neural-networks-to-llms-a-developers-mental-model-55a6)

_(50 more articles available via /topics/neural-networks)_


## All articles (most recent 50)

- **2026-08-23** — Backpropagation by Hand: Two Layers, a Pen, and Then Autograd Agrees [dev.to] (https://dev.to/pytorchfromgroundup/backpropagation-by-hand-two-layers-a-pen-and-then-autograd-agrees-13i6)
- **2026-08-23** — Show HN: Ditdah – A Morse App for the Terminal [encse.github.io] (https://encse.github.io/ditdah/)
- **2026-08-22** — A Step by Step Backpropagation Example [mattmazur.com] (https://mattmazur.com/2015/03/17/a-step-by-step-backpropagation-example/)
- **2026-08-22** — Putting mice into hibernation causes a major loss of synapses [arstechnica.com] (https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/08/memories-stick-around-even-after-half-the-synapses-are-gone/)
- **2026-08-22** — AI Is Rewriting Mathematics [nofilk.substack.com] (https://nofilk.substack.com/p/ai-is-rewriting-mathematics)
- **2026-08-21** — Genuine Intelligence will never in trillion years emerge from neural networks. [dev.to] (https://dev.to/wiseai/genuine-intelligence-will-never-in-trillion-years-emerge-from-neural-networks-1250)
- **2026-08-21** — Show HN: A desktop fly drawn to the scent of vibecode [github.com] (https://github.com/kulikov0/desktop-vibe-fly)
- **2026-08-21** — AI Can See Optical Illusions [nautil.us] (https://nautil.us/ai-can-see-optical-illusions-1284064/)
- **2026-08-21** — The Human Brain Versus AI: Similar Results, Very Different Machines [eetimes.com] (https://www.eetimes.com/the-human-brain-versus-ai-similar-results-very-different-machines/)
- **2026-08-21** — Cognition and consciousness arise from analog computations, says new theory [picower.mit.edu] (https://picower.mit.edu/news/cognition-and-consciousness-arise-analog-computations-says-new-theory)
- **2026-08-21** — K\"ahler landscapes for complex neural network descents and guarantees including a search and destroy of the Calabi-Yau manifold [machinebrief.com] (https://www.machinebrief.com/news/kahler-landscapes-for-complex-neural-network-descents-and-gu-ckj0)
- **2026-08-21** — Complementary, Not Cumulative: Interaction Effects in Physics-Informed Neural Networks for Navier-Stokes Vortex Shedding [machinebrief.com] (https://www.machinebrief.com/news/complementary-not-cumulative-interaction-effects-in-physics-ckst)
- **2026-08-21** — In Two Minds about Lifelong Learning: Exploring Hemispheric Redundancy and Specialisation in Neural Models [machinebrief.com] (https://www.machinebrief.com/news/in-two-minds-about-lifelong-learning-exploring-hemispheric-r-cjtd)
- **2026-08-21** — Decoding silent reading from non-invasive EEG [machinebrief.com] (https://www.machinebrief.com/news/decoding-silent-reading-from-non-invasive-eeg-cqux)
- **2026-08-20** — Ability Neurotech Infrared BCI to Begin Human Trials [spectrum.ieee.org] (https://spectrum.ieee.org/ability-neurotech-bci-human-trial)
- **2026-08-20** — Analog Cognition and Consciousness [doi.org] (https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0711-26.2026)
- **2026-08-20** — ONNX.css – Neural network inference using stylesheets [onnx.css.evanking.io] (https://onnx.css.evanking.io/)
- **2026-08-20** — Bidirectional representational alignment between biological and artificial neural networks [arxiv.org] (https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.18244)
- **2026-08-20** — Beyond LLM-Based Reasoning: Lightweight GNNs for Agent Failure Attribution [machinebrief.com] (https://www.machinebrief.com/news/beyond-llm-based-reasoning-lightweight-gnns-for-agent-failur-tx0s)
- **2026-08-20** — Universality of Gradient Descent Neural Network Training [arxiv.org] (https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.13664)
- **2026-08-19** — Childhood ADHD is linked to distinct developmental changes in brain white matter [psypost.org] (https://www.psypost.org/childhood-adhd-is-linked-to-distinct-developmental-changes-in-brain-white-matter/)
- **2026-08-19** — Kimi K3 Attention Residuals [promptcube3.com] (https://promptcube3.com/en/threads/6947/)
- **2026-08-19** — What a Blissful Psychedelic Trip Looks Like Inside the Brain [nautil.us] (https://nautil.us/what-a-blissful-psychedelic-trip-looks-like-inside-the-brain-1283982/)
- **2026-08-19** — Can a sole author skip the ICONIP 2026 in-person presentation? [promptcube3.com] (https://promptcube3.com/en/news/6883/)
- **2026-08-19** — RoBell-RVFL: A Robust Generalized Bell Random Vector Functional Link Network [arxiv.org] (https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.16965)
- **2026-08-19** — Creating a Multilayer Perceptron from Scratch [pub.towardsai.net] (https://pub.towardsai.net/creating-a-multilayer-perceptron-from-scratch-ef428c4d684a?source=rss----98111c9905da---4)
- **2026-08-18** — DesktopFly gives macOS a fruit fly driven by 668 mapped neurons [runtimewire.com] (https://runtimewire.com/article/desktopfly-macos-fruit-fly-flywire-connectome)
- **2026-08-18** — A 3D fruit fly on macOS desktop powered by the real FlyWire connectome [github.com] (https://github.com/DenisSergeevitch/desktop-fly)
- **2026-08-18** — SineKAN might actually beat B-splines for certain KAN tasks [promptcube3.com] (https://promptcube3.com/en/news/6836/)
- **2026-08-18** — Mysterious waves sweeping across your brain may help turn sensory chaos into what you see [sciencedaily.com] (https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/08/260816044827.htm)
- **2026-08-18** — PIKFNO: An Interpretable Neural Operator Based on Physics Informed Kernel Function [arxiv.org] (https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.14619)
- **2026-08-18** — Fractional Optimizers Meet Fractal Activation Functions: An Empirical Study of Multi-Scale Optimization in Neural Network [arxiv.org] (https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.14636)
- **2026-08-18** — Randomly initialized autoencoders: fixed points and edge-of-chaos [arxiv.org] (https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.14638)
- **2026-08-18** — BDIP-Net: Dual-Interaction Graph Learning for Property Prediction of Bilayer Materials [arxiv.org] (https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.14640)
- **2026-08-18** — Position: Certified Correctness in Neural Constraint Reasoning Requires Symbolic Integration [arxiv.org] (https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.14569)
- **2026-08-18** — Why Binary Cross Entropy? [pub.towardsai.net] (https://pub.towardsai.net/why-binary-cross-entropy-110ce2865463?source=rss----98111c9905da---4)
- **2026-08-17** — AI Fundamentals: Understanding Activation Functions (Part 2) [pub.towardsai.net] (https://pub.towardsai.net/ai-fundamentals-understanding-activation-functions-part-2-ac15aa63b15b?source=rss----98111c9905da---4)
- **2026-08-17** — I measured my brain during one of the hardest business trips of my year. Here’s what I learned about performance [fastcompany.com] (https://www.fastcompany.com/91580367/i-measured-my-brain-during-one-of-the-hardest-business-trips-of-my-year-heres-what-i-learned-about-performance-neuroscience-mental-performance-brain)
- **2026-08-17** — A Risk-Style Take on the Turkish War of Independence [github.com] (https://github.com/dashersw/independence)
- **2026-08-17** — Handwritten Digit Classification with Neural Cultures [biorxiv.org] (https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.08.10.743829v1)
- **2026-08-17** — CoANeRV: Coordinate-Aware Token-Space Neural Video Representation [arxiv.org] (https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.13938)
- **2026-08-17** — Robust Dual-Model Collaborative Random Vector Functional Link Network [arxiv.org] (https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.13628)
- **2026-08-17** — SAGE: Surrogate-gradient Adaptation via Attention-Guided Entropy for Spiking Transformers [arxiv.org] (https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.13702)
- **2026-08-17** — CutClean: Neural Network Pruning for Privacy-Preserving Inference [arxiv.org] (https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.13773)
- **2026-08-17** — HI-MeshGraphNets: Efficient and Accurate Mesh-based Physics Learning with Hierarchical Multi-scale Graph Neural Networks [arxiv.org] (https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.13827)
- **2026-08-17** — Batch-wise Adaptive Pruning: Periodic Neuron Activation-Aware Weight Pruning for Language Reasoning Model [arxiv.org] (https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.14003)
- **2026-08-17** — BCIJelly: An integrated ecosystem for brain-computer interface research [machinebrief.com] (https://www.machinebrief.com/news/bcijelly-an-integrated-ecosystem-for-brain-computer-interfac-hx7w)
- **2026-08-16** — The Memory Machine: How Two Researchers Taught Neural Networks to Remember [pub.towardsai.net] (https://pub.towardsai.net/the-memory-machine-how-two-researchers-taught-neural-networks-to-remember-d3074f46eb93?source=rss----98111c9905da---4)
- **2026-08-16** — The experience of mathematical beauty and its neural correlates (2014) [pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov] (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24592230/)
- **2026-08-16** — From Neural Networks to LLMs: The Mental Model I Was Missing [dev.to] (https://dev.to/priyankaa/from-neural-networks-to-llms-a-developers-mental-model-55a6)


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