Article-Journal
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Neuronal Tuning Aligns Dynamically with Object- and Texture Manifolds across the Visual Hierarchy
Nature Neuroscience
Binxu Wang, Carlos R. Ponce
Matching Accuracy, Different Geometry: Evolution Strategies vs GRPO in LLM Post-training
under review at COLM 2026
William Hoy, Binxu Wang, Xu Pan
Differentiable Faithfulness Alignment for Cross-Model Circuit Transfer
under review at COLM 2026
Shun Shao, Binxu Wang, Shay B Cohen, Yonatan Belinkov
A Random Matrix Perspective on the Consistency of Diffusion Models
arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.02908 (under review at ICML)
Binxu Wang, Jacob A. Zavatone-Veth, Cengiz Pehlevan
Structure as an inductive bias for brain–model alignment
Nature Machine Intelligence
Binxu Wang, Carlos R Ponce
Feature accentuation along the encoding axes of IT neurons uncovers hidden differences in model-brain alignment
Journal of Vision
Jacob S Prince, Binxu Wang, Akshay v Jagadeesh, Thomas Fel, Emily Lo, George a Alvarez, Margaret S Livingstone, Talia Konkle
An analytical theory of power law spectral bias in the learning dynamics of diffusion models
NeurIPS 2025 (spotlight, top 3%) — arXiv:2503.03206
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Spotlight — top 3%
Binxu Wang, Cengiz Pehlevan
Archetypal SAE: Adaptive and Stable Dictionary Learning for Concept Extraction in Large Vision Models
ICML 2025 (arXiv:2502.12892)
Thomas Fel, Ekdeep Singh Lubana, Jacob S Prince, Matthew Kowal, Victor Boutin, Isabel Papadimitriou, Binxu Wang, Martin Wattenberg, Demba Ba, Talia Konkle
The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Gaussian Score Approximation for Diffusion Models and its Applications
Transactions on Machine Learning Research (arXiv:2412.09726)
Binxu Wang, John J Vastola
Diffusion models generate images like painters: an analytical theory of outline first, details later
arXiv preprint arXiv:2303.02490
Binxu Wang, John J Vastola
What constitutes understanding of ventral pathway function?
Charles Connor, Gabriel Kreiman, Carlos R Ponce, Carl Craver, Margaret Livingstone, Martin Schrimpf, Binxu Wang
Visual prototypes in the ventral stream are attuned to complexity and gaze behavior
Nature Communications
Olivia Rose*, James Johnson*, Binxu Wang, Carlos R. Ponce
A mechanism for synaptic copy between neural circuits
Neural computation
Yuxiu Shao, Binxu Wang, Andrew T Sornborger, Louis Tao
Mutual information and information gating in synfire chains
Entropy
Zhuocheng Xiao, Binxu Wang, Andrew T Sornborger, Louis Tao