Daniel Yamins
Associate Professor of Psychology and of Computer Science
Builds neural network models of sensory cortex and self-supervised world models in the NeuroAILab.
Daniel Yamins's lab at Stanford works on generative & foundation models. 23 papers since 2023, 7 at top venues, mostly NeurIPS and CVPR. 8 PhD students and 1 master's student. 18 alumni, most often to Amazon and Google DeepMind. Applications close .
At a glance
- papers, 2023–2026
- 6/ year
- at T1 venues
- 30%
- PhD students
- 8
- MS students
- 1
- alumni listed
- 18
Papers by yearfrom the lab homepage, 2023–2026
- 3 papers2026 · T1 1 · collecting
- 7 papers2025 · T1 3
- 7 papers2024 · T1 2
- 6 papers2023 · T1 1
T1 venuesOtherVenues: NeurIPS, CVPR, ICLR, Neuron
Research focuspaper titles that use each topic's words
- Generative & foundation models5 papers
- network models0 papers
- sensory0 papers
- world models0 papers
- neural network0 papers
Paper list
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20263 papers
20257 papers
- ICLR (T1)Hypothetical Minds: Scaffolding Theory of Mind for Multi-Agent Tasks with Large Language Models (opens in a new tab)
- Proceedings of Interspeech . 2180-2184.Representing Speech Through Autoregressive Prediction of Cochlear Tokens (opens in a new tab)
- NeurIPS (T1)Self-Supervised Learning of Motion Concepts by Optimizing Counterfactuals (opens in a new tab)
- NeurIPS (T1)Taming generative video models for zero-shot optical flow extraction (opens in a new tab)
- Proceedings of the Conference on Cognitive Computational Neuroscience .The BabyView dataset: High-resolution egocentric videos of infants’ and young children’s everyday experiences (opens in a new tab)
- Proceedings of the Conference on Cognitive Computational Neuroscience .Understanding Human Limits in Pattern Recognition: A Computational Model of Sequential Reasoning in Rock, Paper, Scissors (opens in a new tab)
- CogSci25.Validating Generative Agent-Based Models of Social Norm Enforcement: From Replication to Novel Predictions (opens in a new tab)
20247 papers
- NeurIPS (T1)3D-IntPhys: Towards More Generalized 3D-grounded Visual Intuitive Physics under Challenging Scenes (opens in a new tab)
- Neuron (T1)A unifying framework for functional organization in early and higher ventral visual cortex (opens in a new tab)
- Cognitive Science Research.Explanatory models in neuroscience, Part 1: Taking mechanistic abstraction seriously (opens in a new tab)
- Cognitive Science Research.Explanatory models in neuroscience, Part 2: Functional intelligibility and the contravariance principle (opens in a new tab)
- ICLR WorkshopInter-animal transforms as a guide to model-brain comparison (opens in a new tab)
- Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.Probabilistic simulation supports generalizable intuitive physics (opens in a new tab)
- European Conference on Compute Vision (ECCV '24).Understanding Physical Dynamics with Counterfactual World Modeling (opens in a new tab)
20236 papers
- NeurIPS (T1)Are These the Same Apple? Comparing Images Based on Object Intrinsics (opens in a new tab)
- Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.Developmental Curiosity and Social Interaction in Virtual Agents
- Neural Computation (in press).Limiting Dynamics of SGD: Modified Loss, Phase Space Oscillations, and Anomalous Diffusion (opens in a new tab)
- Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.Measuring and Modeling Physical Intrinsic Motivation (opens in a new tab)
- PLoS Computational Biology (in press).Mouse visual cortex as a limited resource system that self-learns an ecologically-general representation (opens in a new tab)
- Behavioral Research Methods : 1-12.The BabyView camera: Designing a new head-mounted camera to capture children’s early social and visual environments (opens in a new tab)
Where alumni went18 listed, 55% to industry
Industry 6Academia 5
Most often to
- Amazon
- Google DeepMind
- Meta
Also to
- Stanford University
- UC Berkeley
- MIT
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