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66
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28210
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2019 - Mathematical Neuroscience Prize, Israel Brain Technologies (IBT)

Overview

Naftali Tishby is affiliated with the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel and specializes in neuroscience. Their research spans multiple subfields including cognitive neuroscience, molecular biology, experimental and cognitive psychology, electrical and electronic engineering, and management science and operations research.

Their work predominantly focuses on neural dynamics and brain function, gene regulatory network analysis, categorization, perception, and language, multisensory perception and integration, advanced memory and neural computing, EEG and brain-computer interfaces, as well as protein structure and dynamics.

Among their frequent co-authors are Noga Zaslavsky, Charles Kemp, Terry Regier, Karee Garvin, and Hadar Levi-Aharoni.

Naftali Tishby has published extensively in several venues, including:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • PLoS Computational Biology
  • Journal of Language Evolution
  • PRX Life
  • Physical Review Research

Notable recent papers include:

  • embo - Empirical Bottleneck, 2020, arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Surprise response as a probe for compressed memory states, 2020, PLoS Computational Biology
  • The evolution of color naming reflects pressure for efficiency: Evidence from the recent past, 2022, Journal of Language Evolution
  • The Dual Information Bottleneck, 2020, arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Value-complexity tradeoff explains mouse navigational learning, 2020, PLoS Computational Biology

Naftali Tishby received the Mathematical Neuroscience Prize from Israel Brain Technologies (IBT) in 2019.

Best Publications

  • The information bottleneck method

    Naftali Tishby;Fernando C. N. Pereira;William Bialek

  • Machine learning and the physical sciences

    Giuseppe Carleo;J. Ignacio Cirac;Kyle Cranmer;Laurent Daudet

  • Selective Sampling Using the Query by Committee Algorithm

    Yoav Freund;H. Sebastian Seung;Eli Shamir;Naftali Tishby

  • DISTRIBUTIONAL CLUSTERING OF ENGLISH WORDS

    Fernando Pereira;Naftali Tishby;Lillian Lee

  • The Hierarchical Hidden Markov Model: Analysis and Applications

    Shai Fine;Yoram Singer;Naftali Tishby

  • Deep learning and the information bottleneck principle

    Naftali Tishby;Noga Zaslavsky

  • Opening the Black Box of Deep Neural Networks via Information

    Ravid Shwartz-Ziv;Naftali Tishby

  • The power of amnesia: learning probabilistic automata with variable memory length

    Dana Ron;Yoram Singer;Naftali Tishby

  • The Power of Amnesia

    Dana Ron;Yoram Singer;Naftali Tishby

  • Document clustering using word clusters via the information bottleneck method

    Noam Slonim;Naftali Tishby

  • Predictability, Complexity, and Learning

    William Bialek;Ilya Nemenman;Naftali Tishby

  • Statistical mechanics of learning from examples

    Hyunjune Sebastian Seung;Hyunjune Sebastian Seung;H. Sompolinsky;H. Sompolinsky;N. Tishby

  • Euclidean Embedding of Co-occurrence Data

    Amir Globerson;Gal Chechik;Fernando Pereira;Naftali Tishby

  • Agglomerative Information Bottleneck

    Noam Slonim;Naftali Tishby

  • Margin based feature selection - theory and algorithms

    Ran Gilad-Bachrach;Amir Navot;Naftali Tishby

  • Information Bottleneck for Gaussian Variables

    Gal Chechik;Amir Globerson;Naftali Tishby;Yair Weiss

  • Distributional word clusters vs. words for text categorization

    Ron Bekkerman;Ran El-Yaniv;Naftali Tishby;Yoad Winter

  • A statistical approach to learning and generalization in layered neural networks

    Esther Levin;Naftali Tishby;Sara A. Solla

  • Unsupervised document classification using sequential information maximization

    Noam Slonim;Nir Friedman;Naftali Tishby

  • Cortical activity flips among quasi-stationary states

    Moshe Abeles;Hagai Bergman;Itay Gat;Isaac Meilijson

Frequent Co-Authors

Amir Globerson
Amir Globerson Tel Aviv University
Noam Slonim
Noam Slonim IBM (United States)
William Bialek
William Bialek Princeton University
Gal Chechik
Gal Chechik Bar-Ilan University
Terry Regier
Terry Regier University of California, Berkeley
Fernando Pereira
Fernando Pereira Google (United States)
Ohad Shamir
Ohad Shamir Weizmann Institute of Science
Yoram Singer
Yoram Singer Princeton University
Israel Nelken
Israel Nelken Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Gill Bejerano
Gill Bejerano Stanford University

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