Selective publications

* = equal contribution

Hahn, M., & Wei, X.X. (2024). A unifying theory explains seemingly contradictory biases in perceptual estimation.  Nature Neuroscience,  Link.  (bioRxiv preprint  Link,  Supplementary Material)

Zhu, R., & Wei, X.X. (2023). Unsupervised approach to decomposing neural tuning variability. Nature Communications, Link (bioRxiv link )

Ajabi, Z., Keinath, A.T., Wei, X.X., Brandon, M.P. (2023). Population dynamics of the thalamic head direction system during drift and reorientation. Nature. Link 

Kriegeskorte, N.*, & Wei, X. X.* (2021). Neural tuning and representational geometry. Nature Reviews Neuroscience. (arxiv preprint:2104.09743. Link )

Zhou, D. & Wei, X. X.  (2020) Learning identifiable and interpretable latent models of high-dimensional neural activity using pi-VAE. In Advances in neural information processing systems (NeurIPS). Link

Cueva, C. J.,* & Wei, X. X*. (2018). Emergence of grid-like representations by training recurrent neural networks to perform spatial localization. International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR). Link

Wei, X. X., & Stocker, A. A. (2017). Lawful relation between perceptual bias and discriminability. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 114(38), 10244-10249. Link

Wei, X. X., & Stocker, A. A. (2015). A Bayesian observer model constrained by efficient coding can explain ‘anti-Bayesian' percepts. Nature Neuroscience, 18(10), 1509.  Link

Wei, X. X., Prentice, J., & Balasubramanian, V.B. (2015). A principle of economy predicts the functional architecture of grid cells. eLife, 4, e08362.  Link   Earlier arxiv version(in 2013)

All publications

O'Shea, R.T., Nauhaus, I., Wei, X.X., Priebe, N. J. (2024). Luminance invariant encoding in primary visual cortex. bioRxiv preprint, Link 

Kay, K.,  Biderman, N., Khajeh, R., Beiran, M., Cueva, C.J., Shohamy, D., Jensen, G., Wei, X.X., Ferrera, V.P.,  & Abbott, L.F. (2024).  Emergent neural dynamics and geometry for generalization in a transitive inference task. PLOS Computational Biology.

Hahn, M., & Wei, X.X. (2024). A unifying theory explains seemingly contradictory biases in perceptual estimation.  Nature Neuroscience,  Link.  (bioRxiv preprint  Link,  Supplementary Material)

Redman, W.T.*, Acosta-Mendoza, S.*. Wei, X.X., Goard, M. J. (2024). Robust variability of grid cell properties within individual grid modules enhances encoding of local space. bioRxiv preprint, Link

Zhu, R., & Wei, X.X. (2023). Unsupervised approach to decomposing neural tuning variability. Nature Communications, Link (bioRxiv link )

Ajabi, Z., Keinath, A.T., Wei, X.X., Brandon, M.P. (2023). Population dynamics of the thalamic head direction system during drift and reorientation. Nature. Link 

Wei, X.X., & Woodford, M. (2023). Representational geometry explains puzzling error distributions in behavioral tasks.  bioRxiv preprint  Link

Kim, Y.G., Liu, Y (#), Wei, X.X. (2023). Covariate-informed Representation Learning to Prevent Posterior Collapse of iVAE. International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS 2023) (arXiv preprint Link )

Kay, K., Wei, X.X., Khajeh, R., Beiran, M., Cueva, C.J., Ferrera, C.P., Abbott, L.F. (2022). Neural dynamics and geometry for transitive inference. bioRxiv preprint Link

Xu, D., Gao, R., Zhang, W., Wei, X.X., & Wu, Y.N. (2022). Conformal Isometry of Lie Group Representation in Recurrent Network of Grid Cells. NeurIPS 2022 NeurReps Workshop (conference track). arXiv preprint   Link

Xiong, H.D, & Wei, X.X. (2022). Optimal encoding of prior information in noisy working memory systems. Conference on Computational Cognitive Neuroscience (CCN2022). Link

Deng, X., Chen, S., Sosa, M., Karlsson, M. P., Wei, X. X., Frank, L. M. (2022). A Variable Clock Underlies Internally Generated Hippocampal Sequences. Journal of Neuroscience.  (bioRxiv preprint Link)

Kriegeskorte, N.*, & Wei, X. X.* (2021). Neural tuning and representational geometry. Nature Reviews Neuroscience. (arxiv preprint:2104.09743. Link )

Gao, R., Xie, J., Wei, X.X., Zhu, S.C., Wu, Y.N. (2021)  On Path Integration of Grid Cells: Group Representation and Isotropic Scaling,  In Advances in neural information processing systems (NeurIPS). (ArXiv preprint. Link)

Zhou, D. & Wei, X. X.  (2020) Learning identifiable and interpretable latent models of high-dimensional neural activity using pi-VAE. In Advances in neural information processing systems (NeurIPS). Link

Cueva, C. J.*, Wang, P. Y.*, Chin, M.*, & Wei, X. X. (2020). Emergence of functional and structural properties of the head direction system by optimization of recurrent neural networks. International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR, spotlight presentation). Link

Wei, X. X.*, Zhou, D.*, Grosmark, A., Ajabi, Z., Sparks, F., Zhou, P., Brandon, M., Losonczy, A., & Paninski, L. (2020). A zero-inflated gamma model for post-deconvolved calcium imaging traces. Published in Neurons, Behavior, Data analysis, and Theory (the NBDT journal). Link

Zhang, R.Y., Wei, X.X., and Kay, K. (2020). Understanding multivariate brain activity: evaluating the effect of voxelwise noise correlations on population codes in functional magnetic resonance imaging. PLOS Computational Biology 16.8: e1008153. Link

Cueva, C. J.,* & Wei, X. X*. (2018). Emergence of grid-like representations by training recurrent neural networks to perform spatial localization. International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR). Link

Earlier work

Pollock, E., Desai, N., Wei, X.X.*, and Vijay Balasubramanian, V*. (2018). Dynamic self-organized error-correction of grid cells by border cells. arXiv preprint, arXiv:1808.0150. Link

Wei, X. X., & Stocker, A. A. (2017). Lawful relation between perceptual bias and discriminability. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 114(38), 10244-10249. Link

Wei, X. X., & Stocker, A. A. (2016). Mutual information, Fisher information, and efficient coding. Neural Computation, 28(2), 305-326. Link

Wang, Z.*, Wei, X. X*., Stocker, A. A., & Lee, D. D. (2016). Efficient neural codes under metabolic constraints. In Advances in neural information processing systems (NeurIPS), pp. 4619-4627.   Link

Wei, X. X., & Stocker, A. A. (2015). A Bayesian observer model constrained by efficient coding can explain ‘anti-Bayesian' percepts. Nature Neuroscience, 18(10), 1509.  Link

Wei, X. X., Prentice, J., & Balasubramanian, V.B. (2015). A principle of economy predicts the functional architecture of grid cells. eLife, 4, e08362.  Link   Earlier arxiv version(in 2013)

Jacobs, J., Weidemann, C. T., Miller, J. F., Solway, A., Burke, J. F., Wei, X. X., ... & Kahana, M. J. (2013). Direct recordings of grid-like neuronal activity in human spatial navigation. Nature Neuroscience, 16(9), 1188-1190. 

Wei, X. X., & Stocker, A. A. (2012). Efficient coding provides a direct link between prior and  likelihood in perceptual Bayesian inference. In Advances in neural information processing systems (NeurIPS), pp. 1304-1312. Link

Wei, X. X., & Stocker, A. A. (2012). Bayesian inference with efficient neural population codes. In International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (pp. 523-530). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.  Link