Researchers from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) have developed an AI model inspired by neural oscillations in the brain to improve handling long sequences of data.
The new model, named “linear oscillatory state-space models” (LinOSS), provides stable, expressive, and computationally efficient predictions without restrictive design choices and has universal approximation capability to approximate any continuous, causal function.
LinOSS outperformed existing models by nearly two times in tasks involving sequences of extreme length, leading to its selection for an oral presentation at ICLR 2025, highlighting its impact on fields like health care analytics, climate science, autonomous driving, and financial forecasting.
The researchers aim to further expand the applications of LinOSS across various data modalities, while also emphasizing its potential to provide insights into neuroscience and advance our understanding of the brain.