Publications

Selected Publications

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Journal Papers

  • Abdulsalam, A. and Makin, J.G. (2025). "Revisiting Contrastive Divergence for Density Estimation and Sample Generation." Transactions on Machine Learning Research (TMLR).
  • Jaiswal, R., Datta, S., and Makin, J.G. (2025). "Energy-Efficient Supervised Learning with a Binary Stochastic Forward-Forward Algorithm." IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence. [In Press]
  • Ahmed, B., Downer, J.D., Malone, B.J., and Makin, J.G. (2025). "Deep Neural Networks Explain Spiking Activity in Auditory Cortex." PLoS Computational Biology.
  • Meghanath, G., Jimenez, B., and Makin, J.G. (2023). "Inferring Population Dynamics in Macaque Cortex." Journal of Neural Engineering, 20(5).
  • Moses, D.A., Metzger, S.L., Liu, J.R. , Anumanchipalli, G.K. , Makin, J.G.,  ..., and Chang, E.F.  (2021). "Neuroprosthesis for Decoding Speech in a Paralyzed Person with Anarthria." New England Journal of
    Medicine    , 385:217–227.
  • Makin, J.G., Moses, D. A. and Chang, E. F. (2020) "Machine Translation of Cortical Activity to Text with an Encoder-Decoder Framework. Nature Neuroscience, 23:575–582.

Conference Papers

  • Samar, A.R. and Makin, J.G. (2025). "Pretraining with Masked Autoencoding Improves Speech Decoding from ECoG." IEEE NER. (Spotlight Paper)
  • Abdulsalam, A. and Makin, J.G. (2025). "Exponential-Family Harmoniums with Neural Sufficient Statistics." AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence.
  • Abdulsalam, A. and Makin, J.G. (2023) "Learning Recurrent Models with Temporally Local Rules." ICML, Localized Learning Workshop.