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11 papers

cs.CV2025

CLIP is All You Need for Human-like Semantic Representations in Stable Diffusion

Cameron Braunstein, Mariya Toneva, Eddy Ilg

Latent diffusion models such as Stable Diffusion achieve state-of-the-art results on text-to-image generation tasks. However, the extent to which these models have a semantic under…

cs.AI2025

The One Where They Brain-Tune for Social Cognition: Multi-Modal Brain-Tuning on Friends

Nico Policzer, Cameron Braunstein, Mariya Toneva

Recent studies on audio models show brain-tuning - fine-tuning models to better predict corresponding fMRI activity - improves brain alignment and increases performance on downstre…

cs.CL2025

Brain-tuning Improves Generalizability and Efficiency of Brain Alignment in Speech Models

Omer Moussa, Mariya Toneva

Pretrained language models are remarkably effective in aligning with human brain responses elicited by natural language stimuli, positioning them as promising model organisms for s…

cs.LG2025

Large Language Models as Model Organisms for Human Associative Learning

Camila Kolling, Vy Ai Vo, Mariya Toneva

Associative learning--forming links between co-occurring items--is fundamental to human cognition, reshaping internal representations in complex ways. Testing hypotheses on how rep…

cs.SE2025

How do Humans and LLMs Process Confusing Code?

Youssef Abdelsalam, Norman Peitek, Anna-Maria Maurer +2

Already today, humans and programming assistants based on large language models (LLMs) collaborate in everyday programming tasks. Clearly, a misalignment between how LLMs and progr…

cs.CL2025

Positional Biases Shift as Inputs Approach Context Window Limits

Blerta Veseli, Julian Chibane, Mariya Toneva +1

Large Language Models (LLMs) often struggle to use information across long inputs effectively. Prior work has identified positional biases, such as the Lost in the Middle (LiM) eff…