Mariya Toneva

@mtoneva1

Faculty at @mpi_sws_ working at the intersection of ML, NLP, and cognitive neuroscience. Yogurt snob.

Saarbrücken, Germany

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Mariya Toneva
@mtoneva1
Sep 4, 2025
So excited and honored to receive an ERC Starting Grant for the project BrainAlign!! BrainAlign will bring LLMs closer to human understanding by directly aligning them with the human brain. Stay tuned for our findings, and multiple postdoc and PhD openings in the coming years!
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Mariya Toneva
@mtoneva1
Jul 23
Really eye-opening to survey NeuroAI work across both vision and language--many questions have been answered in one field but remain open in the other! See 🦋 for a fun fact about the origin story..
Dota Tianai Dong
@DotaDong
Jul 21
1/5 Over a decade of comparing deep neural networks to the human brain—but what have we actually learned? Our new @TrendsCognSci Feature Review synthesizes a decade of brain–DNN comparisons, asking what they reveal about brain function across vision and language.
Mariya Toneva
@mtoneva1
Jun 22
It was a lot of fun to write this piece! Makes me so excited for the symposium about The Modern Neuroscience Lab in the Age of AI at FENS in a little more than 2 weeks 🧠🤖
The Transmitter
@_TheTransmitter
Jun 22
These models were not built to explain the brain. But treating them as model organisms that we can perturb and evolve will move us closer to truly understanding the brain’s mechanics, writes @mtoneva1. thetransmitter.org/artificial-int…
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Mariya Toneva
@mtoneva1
Oct 29, 2025
Very nice work from Michela! It was very interesting to see how different the set of important stimulus words are for brain alignment vs next word prediction.
Michela Proietti
@MProietti_
Oct 28, 2025
We are excited to share our preprint presenting the first input attribution approach to investigate brain-LLM alignment: “Fine-Grained Analysis of Brain–LLM Alignment through Input Attribution” 🧠📚 with @webrot and @mtoneva1. 📄 Read the full paper: arxiv.org/abs/2510.12355 🧵
Mariya Toneva
@mtoneva1
Aug 19, 2025
Very proud of Omer for his line of work on brain-tuning speech models. Stay tuned for more exciting work!
Omer Moussa
@ohmoussa2
Aug 19, 2025
If you are attending @ISCAInterspeech, I will be giving a talk today on this work, where we show that brain-tuning speech models leads to brain-like processing stages. Looking forward to the discussion and questions! 🗓️ Aug 19, 16:00. 📍Port 1A (Area 01) #Interspeech2025
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