Alyn Kirsch

MS student, Carnegie Mellon University

1 paper at NeurIPS 2025

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Poster Session 2

Wednesday, December 3, 2025 · 4:30 PM → 7:30 PM

Intrinsic Goals for Autonomous Agents: Model-Based Exploration in Virtual Zebrafish Predicts Ethological Behavior and Whole-Brain Dynamics

#2016 · Reece Keller, Alyn Kirsch, Felix Pei, Xaq Pitkow, Leo Kozachkov, Aran Nayebi

A novel intrinsic motivation method based on world-model memory mismatch enables embodied agents to exhibit robust autonomous behaviors that closely match whole-brain neural data from zebrafish.