Takeru Miyato
Preferred Networks, Inc.; PhD student, Autonomous Vision Group, University of Tübingen
Builder The claim is about what the hardware does, and the philosophy is left open
Takeru Miyato is the first author of Artificial Kuramoto Oscillatory Neurons, the ICLR 2025 paper with Sindy Löwe, Andreas Geiger and Max Welling (the project page). AKOrN replaces threshold units with Kuramoto oscillators and shows that the resulting dynamics improve object discovery, adversarial robustness and reasoning tasks, with the oscillatory state serving as a dynamical alternative to static activations. The mechanism supports fully connected, convolutional and attention coupling, and its code is public (github.com/autonomousvision/akorn).
The connection to this project is direct. The agent’s binding layer is built on AKOrN, with five module oscillators running the update rule in the public research repo, and the Brain Waves Console runs those equations live, including the defect the project found in its own integration where the natural frequency term evaluated to zero. The 2026 Neuron review of cortical traveling waves cites AKOrN among the machine learning models whose hidden layers show waves, which makes Miyato’s mechanism the point where the cortical wave literature and artificial networks meet.
Known for. First author of Artificial Kuramoto Oscillatory Neurons (ICLR 2025 oral), and earlier work on spectral normalization and adversarial training methods for semi-supervised learning
Coverage on this site
- Artificial Kuramoto Oscillatory Neurons (AKOrN), What They Bind and What Hardware Can Run Them October 2026
Related researchers
- Max WellingProfessor of Machine Learning, University of Amsterdam; Chief AI Officer, CuspAICo-author of Artificial Kuramoto Oscillatory Neurons (Miyato, Löwe, Geiger and Welling, ICLR 2025), Neural Wave Machines with T. Anderson Keller (ICML 2023), and foundational work on variational inference, geometric deep learning and graph neural networks
- Andreas GeigerProfessor of Computer Science, University of Tübingen, head of the Autonomous Vision Group, Tübingen AI CenterCo-author of Artificial Kuramoto Oscillatory Neurons (Miyato, Löwe, Geiger and Welling, ICLR 2025), whose code is released by his Autonomous Vision Group, and the KITTI benchmark for autonomous driving
- Navid Anjum AaditDepartment of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University (present address); previously University of California, Santa BarbaraFirst author of the sparse Ising machine on FPGAs (Nature Electronics, 2022) and of the programmable probabilistic computer with one million p-bits (arXiv 2606.25313, 2026)
- Vikas AgnihotriIndependent Aerospace and Neuromorphic Systems ResearcherNeuromorphic Satellite Intelligence framework, radiation-induced energy overhead model for spiking neural hardware, constrained on-orbit STDP
- James B. AimoneCenter for Computing Research, Sandia National LaboratoriesNeuromorphic algorithms, adult Drosophila FlyWire connectome simulation on Intel Loihi 2, adult hippocampal neurogenesis modeling
- Matt AngleParadromicsFounder and CEO of Paradromics, developer of the Connexus Direct Data Interface high-data-rate brain-computer interface
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