Mariya Toneva

12 papers · 2019–2026 · 7 venues · across top CS/AI venues

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🌉 Interdisciplinary Bridge · Silver 🗺️ Taxonomy Completionist (24) 🐣 Hot Topic Early Bird 🏃 Academic Marathon · Sprint 🌍 Conference Polyglot · Silver

🏆 Keyword Champion (2) 🌈 Renaissance Researcher (5) 🔥 Unstoppable · Bronze 🚀 Conference Pioneer 💎 Century Club · Bronze

Venues

NeurIPS (4) ACL (2) ICLR (2) CLeaR (1) CoNLL (1) EMNLP (1) Interspeech (1)

Top co-authors

Leila Wehbe (4) Omer Moussa (3) Gabriele Merlin (2) Christoph Dann (1) Anand Bollu (1) Barnabás Póczos (1) Dan Schwartz (1) Fatma Deniz (1) Manish Gupta (1) Emin Çelik (1)

Research topics

Artificial Intelligence (9) Core AI (8) Natural Language Processing (6) Interdisciplinary (5) Deep Learning (4) Science (4) Machine Learning (3) Core Methods (2) Generation (2) Learning Types (2) Models (2) Resources & Methods (2) Healthcare & Medicine (1) Speech & Audio (1) Application Areas (1)

Keywords

language model (5) brain alignment (3) neural encoding (2) neural representation (2) semantic processing (2) large language model (2) brain encoding (2) speech language model (2) brain recording (2) knowledge distillation (1) brain-computer interface (1) narrative understanding (1) stimulus processing (1) brain imaging (1) self-supervised learning (1) zero-shot learning (1) semantic representation (1) model comparison (1) multimodal learning (1) functional magnetic resonance imaging (1)

Papers

What Brain Data Adds to Language Model Training CoNLL 2026 Brain-tuned Speech Models Better Reflect Speech Processing Stages in the Brain Interspeech 2025 Improving Semantic Understanding in Speech Language Models via Brain-tuning ICLR 2025 Language models and brains align due to more than next-word prediction and word-level information EMNLP 2024 Perturbed examples reveal invariances shared by language models ACL 2024 Speech language models lack important brain-relevant semantics ACL 2024 Joint processing of linguistic properties in brains and language models NeurIPS 2023 Training language models to summarize narratives improves brain alignment ICLR 2023 Same Cause; Different Effects in the Brain CLeaR 2022 Modeling Task Effects on Meaning Representation in the Brain via Zero-Shot MEG Prediction NeurIPS 2020 Inducing brain-relevant bias in natural language processing models NeurIPS 2019 Interpreting and improving natural-language processing (in machines) with natural language-processing (in the brain) NeurIPS 2019