Mariya Toneva

10 papers · 2019–2025 · 5 conferences · across top CS/AI conferences

Achievements

🐝 Cross-Pollinator (15) 🗺️ Taxonomy Completionist (18) 🧭 Keyword Pioneer 🐣 Hot Topic Early Bird 🌍 Conference Polyglot (5) 🏃 Academic Marathon (6) 🌈 Renaissance Researcher (6) 🌉 Interdisciplinary Bridge 🏆 Keyword Champion 💎 Century Club (10) 🚀 Conference Pioneer

Conferences

NIPS (4) ACL (2) ICLR (2) CLEAR (1) EMNLP (1)

Top co-authors

Leila Wehbe (4) Jennifer Williams (1) Tom M. Mitchell (1) Omer Moussa (1) Gabriele Merlin (1) Christoph Dann (1) Anand Bollu (1) Barnabás Póczos (1) Dan Schwartz (1) Fatma Deniz (1)

Keywords

language model (3) semantic processing (2) brain encoding (2) brain alignment (2) neural encoding (2) brain activity prediction (1) brain activity (1) functional magnetic resonance imaging (1) neural representation (1) model comparison (1) next-word prediction (1) semantic property (1) syntactic property (1) speech language model (1) encoding model (1) linguistic capability (1) large language model (1) word-level information (1) interpretable input perturbation (1) neural alignment (1)

Papers

Improving Semantic Understanding in Speech Language Models via Brain-tuning ICLR 2025

Perturbed examples reveal invariances shared by language models ACL 2024

Speech language models lack important brain-relevant semantics ACL 2024

Language models and brains align due to more than next-word prediction and word-level information EMNLP 2024

Training language models to summarize narratives improves brain alignment ICLR 2023

Joint processing of linguistic properties in brains and language models NIPS 2023

Same Cause; Different Effects in the Brain CLEAR 2022

Modeling Task Effects on Meaning Representation in the Brain via Zero-Shot MEG Prediction NIPS 2020

Inducing brain-relevant bias in natural language processing models NIPS 2019

Interpreting and improving natural-language processing (in machines) with natural language-processing (in the brain) NIPS 2019