Fly Language Model (FLM) Wires the Full Fruit Fly Connectome Into a Frozen 1.2B LLM, and Its Own Controls Show the Wiring Does Not Help
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The Fly Language Model (FLM) drives all 166,700 retained neurons and 25.6 million edges of the MaleCNS fruit fly connectome with token embeddings, then adds a small learned correction to a frozen LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct backbone. Only 278,528 parameters train. The accompanying preprint reports a 0.022…
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- 2026-09-12 18:51 · MarkTechPost
Fly Language Model (FLM) Wires the Full Fruit Fly Connectome Into a Frozen 1.2B LLM, and Its Own Controls Show the Wiring Does Not Help
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