Neuronal Circuit Policies (NCPs)

Neuronal Stochastic Attention Circuit (NSAC) for Probabilistic Representation Learning

Researchers introduce NSAC, a biologically-inspired continuous-time attention architecture that models attention logits as solutions to an Ornstein-Uhlenbeck stochastic differential equation, drawing on C. elegans Neuronal Circuit Policy wiring to induce Gaussian distributions over attention weights. The architecture enables joint quantification of aleatoric and epistemic uncertainty via a two-term objective combining Gaussian negative log-likelihood with an epistemic-separation regularizer. Empirical evaluation spans irregular time-series function approximation, multivariate regression, long-range forecasting, Industry 4.0 tasks, and autonomous vehicle lane-keeping, showing competitive accuracy with well-calibrated uncertainty estimates.