Sashank Varma
Professor
Studies cognitive science of mathematical and scientific thinking and compares human cognition with neural network and language models.
Sashank Varma's lab at Georgia Tech works on computational neuroscience & cognition and large language models. 19 papers since 2023, 3 at top venues, mostly AAAI and EMNLP. Applications close .
At a glance
- papers, 2023–2026
- 5/ year
- at T1 venues
- 16%
- PhD students
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- MS students
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- alumni listed
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Papers by yearfrom DBLP, 2023–2026
- 1 papers2026 · T1 1 · collecting
- 6 papers2025 · T1 1
- 8 papers2024 · T1 1
- 4 papers2023 · T1 0
T1 venuesOtherVenues: AAAI, EMNLP, Findings of ACL
Research focuspaper titles that use each topic's words
- Large language models10 papers
- Computational neuroscience & cognition1 paper
- cognitive science1 paper
- thinking0 papers
- human cognition0 papers
Paper list
From DBLP.
20261 paper
20256 papers
- CogSciA Neural Network Model of Complementary Learning Systems: Pattern Separation and Completion for Continual Learning (opens in a new tab)
- AAAI (T1)Alignment of CNN and Human Judgments of Geometric and Topological Concepts (opens in a new tab)
- CogSciComputer Vision Models Show Human-Like Sensitivity to Geometric and Topological Concepts (opens in a new tab)
- CogSciCross-Language Typicality Effects in a Multilingual Large Language Model (opens in a new tab)
- CogSciModeling Understanding of Story-Based Analogies Using Large Language Models (opens in a new tab)
- CogSciPerceived clusters may not explain people's judgments of approximate numerosity (opens in a new tab)
20248 papers
- CogSciCobweb: An Incremental and Hierarchical Model of Human-Like Category Learning (opens in a new tab)
- EMNLP (T1)Development of Cognitive Intelligence in Pre-trained Language Models (opens in a new tab)
- CogSciEstimating the growth of functions (opens in a new tab)
- CogSciHow Well Do Deep Learning Models Capture Human Concepts? The Case of the Typicality Effect (opens in a new tab)
- CogSciIncremental Comprehension of Garden-Path Sentences by Large Language Models: Semantic Interpretation, Syntactic Re-Analysis, and Attention (opens in a new tab)
- Cogn. Sci.Introduction to Progress and Puzzles of Cognitive Science (opens in a new tab)
- CogSciTowards a path dependent account of category fluency (opens in a new tab)
- CogSciUnderstanding Infinity: Neural Network Models of Becoming a "Cardinal Principle Knower" (opens in a new tab)
20234 papers
- CogSciAdaptivity and optimization under constraints (opens in a new tab)
- CogSciModels of human visual clustering (opens in a new tab)
- Findings of ACLNumeric Magnitude Comparison Effects in Large Language Models (opens in a new tab)
- CogSciUnifying exemplar and prototype models of categorization (opens in a new tab)
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Apply to Georgia TechFall 2027
Georgia Tech Computer Science PhD
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