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most citedBeyond Geometry: Comparing the Temporal Structure of Computation in Neural Circuits with Dynamical Similarity Analysis

8 citations · 12 across the 7 of their papers we have counts for

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9 papers

cs.LG2026

A Mathematical Theory of the Jacobian Lens

Mitchell Ostrow, Daoyuan Qian, Toni Liu +1

Recent work from Anthropic introduced a new interpretability tool, called the Jacobian lens (J-lens, Gurnee et al., 2026). This method identified linear directions in the hidden st…

cs.LG2026

Traversing the solution space of neural networks with Hessian Null Space Continuation

Ann Huang, Mitchell Ostrow, Zhouyang Lu +3

On a single task, deep networks can learn many solutions, depending on their optimizer, training data, architecture, and hyperparameters. Many of these solutions are mode-connected…

cs.AI2025

Fast dynamical similarity analysis

Arman Behrad, Mitchell Ostrow, Mohammad Taha Fakharian +3

Understanding how nonlinear dynamical systems (e.g., artificial neural networks and neural circuits) process information requires comparing their underlying dynamics at scale, acro…

q-bio.NC2025★ 1 cited

InputDSA: Demixing then Comparing Recurrent and Externally Driven Dynamics

Ann Huang, Mitchell Ostrow, Satpreet H. Singh +3

In control problems and basic scientific modeling, it is important to compare observations with dynamical simulations. For example, comparing two neural systems can shed light on t…

q-bio.QM2025

Characterizing control between interacting subsystems with deep Jacobian estimation

Adam J. Eisen, Mitchell Ostrow, Sarthak Chandra +3

Biological function arises through the dynamical interactions of multiple subsystems, including those between brain areas, within gene regulatory networks, and more. A common appro…

cs.AI2024

How Diffusion Models Learn to Factorize and Compose

Qiyao Liang, Ziming Liu, Mitchell Ostrow +1

Diffusion models are capable of generating photo-realistic images that combine elements which likely do not appear together in the training set, demonstrating the ability to \texti…

cs.LG2024★ 1 cited

Delay Embedding Theory of Neural Sequence Models

Mitchell Ostrow, Adam Eisen, Ila Fiete

To generate coherent responses, language models infer unobserved meaning from their input text sequence. One potential explanation for this capability arises from theories of delay…

cs.LG2024★ 2 cited

Bridging Associative Memory and Probabilistic Modeling

Rylan Schaeffer, Nika Zahedi, Mikail Khona +9

Associative memory and probabilistic modeling are two fundamental topics in artificial intelligence. The first studies recurrent neural networks designed to denoise, complete and r…

q-bio.NC2023★ 8 cited

Beyond Geometry: Comparing the Temporal Structure of Computation in Neural Circuits with Dynamical Similarity Analysis

Mitchell Ostrow, Adam Eisen, Leo Kozachkov +1

How can we tell whether two neural networks utilize the same internal processes for a particular computation? This question is pertinent for multiple subfields of neuroscience and…