Research Overview (ULTRATHINK)

MEGATRON hosts the ULTRATHINK research system -- a large-scale collection of spiking neural network (SNN) and efficient attention research papers, each with its own codebase, experiments, and dedicated Claude Code agent.

Summary

MetricValue
Total Projects129+
Waves8
Storage234 GB (~/Papers/)
Projects with CLAUDE.md112
Projects with Code16
Compute2x RTX 3090 (48 GB VRAM total)
Agent SystemClaude Code with per-project specialist agents
Experiment TrackingMLflow
NotebooksJupyterHub

Project Waves

WavePapersDirectory RangeTheme
Core6paper/, paper3/, paper4/, paper6/, paper7/, paper8/Original SNN research
Extended (paper10-25)16paper10-25ROSA extensions and variants
Wave 210paper26-35Extended SNN architectures
Wave 310paper36-45Advanced SNN applications
Wave 415paper46-60Real-time audio/signal processing
Wave 520paper61-80Thorpe TB trillion-neuron architecture
Wave 615paper81-95Differentiable tree machines + SNN
Wave 715paper96-110DeepSeek R2/RNN + SNN integration
Wave 820paper111-130Domain-specific applications

Core Projects (Original)

ProjectDirectoryPurposeStatus
ROSA ViTPapers/paper/Rank-Order Spiking Attention for vision transformersReviewed
GrandmotherPapers/paper3/Invertible Rank-Order AutoencoderReviewed, has code
SpikeGPTPapers/paper4/O(N) Attention via Spike Timing for languageReviewed
Memory EnginePapers/paper6/Hebbian Memory for Continual LearningReviewed
ImaginationPapers/paper7/SNN-based Video GenerationReviewed
Audio EnginePapers/paper8/SNN Audio ProcessingReviewed

Wave 2: Extended Architectures (paper26-35)

ProjectDirectoryPurposeHas Code
SpikeMoEPapers/paper26/Mixture of Experts with Spike-Gated RoutingYes
NeuroMambaPapers/paper27/State Space Models with Spiking DynamicsYes
TempoBERTPapers/paper28/Temporal Coding for Language UnderstandingNo
SpikeFlowPapers/paper29/Normalizing Flows with Neuromorphic PrimitivesNo
ROSA-3DPapers/paper30/Rank-Order Attention for Point CloudsNo
SpikeDreamerPapers/paper31/World Models with Spiking InferenceNo
NeuroRetrievalPapers/paper32/Spike-Based Dense RetrievalNo
EventNeRFPapers/paper33/Neural Radiance Fields from Event CamerasYes
SpikeCodecPapers/paper34/Neuromorphic Video CompressionNo
NeuroNavPapers/paper35/Spiking Networks for Robot NavigationYes

Wave 3: Advanced Applications (paper36-45)

ProjectDirectoryPurposeHas Code
SpikeSSLPapers/paper36/Self-Supervised Learning via Spike TimingNo
NeuroGANPapers/paper37/Spiking Generative Adversarial NetworksYes
SpikeDiffPapers/paper38/Diffusion Models with Neuromorphic DynamicsNo
TempoGraphPapers/paper39/Temporal Graph Networks with Spike CommunicationYes
SpikeRAGPapers/paper40/Retrieval-Augmented Generation with Spike MemoryYes
NeuroSATPapers/paper41/Boolean Satisfiability via Spiking NetworksYes
SpikeCLIPPapers/paper42/Contrastive Vision-Language with Spike AlignmentYes
TempoRLPapers/paper43/Reinforcement Learning with Spike-Time RewardsNo
NeuroCastPapers/paper44/Time Series Forecasting with Spiking ReservoirsNo
SpikeKANPapers/paper45/Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks with Spike FunctionsYes

Later Waves (4-8)

WaveThemeCountKey Projects
Wave 4Real-time Audio/Signal15SpikeAudio-RT, NeuroVoice, SpikeDSP, SpikeSpeech
Wave 5Thorpe TB Architecture20ThorpeBrain-Core, SparseSpike-Trillion, NofM-Encoding
Wave 6Differentiable Tree Machines15SpikeTree-Core, TreeSpike-Parse, NeuroTree-Logic
Wave 7DeepSeek/RNN Integration15DeepSpike-R2, SpikeRNN-Hybrid, NeuroSeek-Reason
Wave 8Domain Applications20SpikeFluid-3D, NeuroCyber-Detect, SpikeWeather

See individual wave pages for full project listings:

Agent Architecture

Each project has a dedicated Claude Code agent (Sonnet-class) coordinated by a master orchestrator (Opus-class):

orchestrator-agent (Opus)
    |
    +-- rosa-agent (paper/)
    +-- grandmother-agent (paper3/)
    +-- spikegpt-agent (paper4/)
    +-- memory-agent (paper6/)
    +-- imagination-agent (paper7/)
    +-- audio-agent (paper8/)
    |
    +-- spikemoe-agent (paper26/)
    +-- neuromamba-agent (paper27/)
    +-- ... (one agent per paper26-45)
    |
    +-- audio-snn-agent (Wave 4 coordinator, paper46-60)
    +-- thorpe-tb-agent (Wave 5 coordinator, paper61-80)
    +-- tree-snn-agent (Wave 6 coordinator, paper81-95)
    +-- deepseek-snn-agent (Wave 7 coordinator, paper96-110)
    +-- domain-snn-agent (Wave 8 coordinator, paper111-130)

See Agent Architecture for details.

Computing Resources for Research

MachineRoleGPURAM
MEGATRONFull training, distributed experiments2x RTX 3090 (48 GB)251 GiB
Lambda LaptopAblations, single-GPU experiments1x RTX GPU64 GB
Mac StudioInference, visualization, large modelsM2 Ultra (MPS)512 GB
MacBook M4Development, quick testsM4 Max (MPS)64 GB

Review System

Each project undergoes systematic review with scoring across four dimensions:

DimensionWeightDescription
Concept & Design25%Research hypothesis, novelty, related work
Implementation30%Code quality, tests, documentation
Data & Experiments25%Dataset setup, experiment configs
Results & Analysis20%Metrics, visualizations, paper readiness

Review artifacts per project: SUMMARY.md, CLAUDE.md, GAPS.md, PROPOSALS.md

Quick Commands

# Check all project status
for dir in paper paper3 paper4 paper6 paper7 paper8 paper{26..45}; do
  echo "=== $dir ===" && head -5 /home/lucas/Papers/$dir/REVIEW.md 2>/dev/null
done

# Run orchestrator
python /home/lucas/ultrathink_orchestrator.py status
python /home/lucas/ultrathink_orchestrator.py launch
python /home/lucas/ultrathink_orchestrator.py collect

# Run reviews
python /home/lucas/Papers/ultrathink_review_orchestrator.py status
python /home/lucas/Papers/ultrathink_review_orchestrator.py launch

# GPU status for training
nvidia-smi --query-gpu=index,memory.used,utilization.gpu --format=csv