Publications

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Structured World Representations in Maze-Solving Transformers

Published in NeurIPS 2023 UniReps Workshop, 2023

Transformers trained to solve mazes form linear representations of maze structure, and acquire interpretable attention heads which facilitate path-following.

Ivanitskiy, M.I.*, Spies, A.F.*, Räuker, T.* et al. Structured World Representations in Maze-Solving Transformers. NeurIPS 2023 UniReps Workshop. [BIB] [PDF]

Sparse Relational Reasoning with Object-Centric Representations

Published in ICML Dynn Workshop (Spotlight), 2022

Assessing the extent to which sparsity and structured (Obect-Centric) representations are beneficial for neural relational reasoning.

Spies, A.F., Russo, A., Shanahan, M. (2022). Sparse Relational Reasoning with Object-Centric Representations. ICML 2022 DyNN Workshop. [BIB] [PDF]

Nonlocal Thresholds for Improving the Spatial Resolution of Pixel Detectors

Published in Journal of Instrumentation, 2019

Investigating the potential use of charge sharing between neighboring pixels in HEP sensors to increase resolution and radiation hardness.

Nachman, B. & Spies, A.F. (2019). Nonlocal Thresholds for Improving the Spatial Resolution of Pixel Detectors. Journal of Instrumentation. [BIB] [PDF]