Publications

@inproceedings{grassick2026wildfin40,
  title = {WildFin: An In-the-Wild Video Dataset for Fish Behavioral Recognition},
  author = {Abigail Grassick, Jerome Tze-Hou Hsu, Ethan Lin, Ziang Liu, Max Whitton, Madelyn Hair, Liam Gutierrez, Haozheng Yu, Kristin Branson, Vivek Jayaraman, Michael A Gil, Andrew M Hein, and Jennifer J Sun},
  year = {2026},
  booktitle = {ECCV 2026 Workshop on Marine Vision (MARINE)},
  note = {Oral},
  url = {https://openreview.net/forum?id=LwHoNviVyB},
}

@inproceedings{horstmann2026a35,
  title = {A case study of evaluating AI agents on a neuroscience data-to-discovery pipeline},
  author = {Kai A Horstmann, Ethan Lin, Alice A Robie, Jennifer J Sun, and Kristin Branson},
  year = {2026},
  booktitle = {Conference on Language Modeling (COLM)},
}

@inproceedings{linunknownagentssl46,
  title = {AgentSSL: Can MLE Agents Leverage Unlabeled Data?},
  author = {Ethan Lin, Akanksha Sarkar, Ziang Liu, Kristin Branson, and Jennifer J Sun},
  year = {2026},
  booktitle = {COLM 2026 Workshop on Language Models for Scientific Discovery (LM4Sci)},
  url = {https://openreview.net/forum?id=yWxcbCZwgn},
}

@inproceedings{liuunknowncontrastive47,
  title = {Contrastive Discovery: Open-Ended Scientific Discovery over Competing Explanations},
  author = {Ziang Liu, James J Kim, Yijia Dai, and Jennifer J Sun},
  year = {2026},
  booktitle = {COLM 2026 Workshop on Language Models for Scientific Discovery (LM4Sci)},
  url = {https://openreview.net/forum?id=LAUn8zPH0B},
}

@inproceedings{mohapatraunknownagentic48,
  title = {Agentic Discovery of Multi-Channel Bioacoustic Association Algorithms},
  author = {Paramjyoti Mohapatra, Irina Tolkova, Akanksha Sarkar, Atharva Sehgal, Daniel P Salisbury, Andrew L Von Duyke, Léa Bouffaut, Holger Klinck, and Jennifer J Sun},
  year = {2026},
  booktitle = {ICLR 2026 Workshop on Foundation Models for Science: Real-World Impact and Science-First Design},
  url = {https://openreview.net/forum?id=JzKBhjoHad},
}

@inproceedings{noonan2026coevolving,
  title = {Co-Evolving Structured Knowledge and Reasoning in Language Models},
  author = {Ryan Thomas Noonan, Linxi Zhao, Menghan Xu, Akanksha Sarkar, Mihir Mishra, Dongyoung Go, Kilian Q Weinberger, Yoav Artzi, and Jennifer J Sun},
  year = {2026},
  booktitle = {Conference on Language Modeling (COLM)},
}

@article{sehgal2026evaluating41,
  title = {Evaluating Agentic Optimization on Large Codebases},
  author = {Atharva Sehgal, James Hou, Akanksha Sarkar, Ishaan Mantripragada, Swarat Chaudhuri, Jennifer J Sun, and Yisong Yue},
  year = {2026},
}

@inproceedings{wang2026simple32,
  title = {Simple Agents Outperform Experts in Biomedical Imaging Workflow Optimization},
  author = {Xuefei Wang, Kai Horstmann, Ethan Lin, Jonathan Chen, Alexander Farhang, Sophia Stiles, Atharva Sehgal, Jonathan Light, David Van Valen, Yisong Yue, and Jennifer J Sun},
  year = {2026},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition},
  pages = {13680-13690},
}

@inproceedings{yang2026live36,
  title = {Live Interactive Training for Video Segmentation},
  author = {Xinyu Yang, Haozheng Yu, Yihong Sun, Bharath Hariharan, and Jennifer J Sun},
  year = {2026},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition},
  pages = {39827-39837},
}

@article{yu2026smg39,
  title = {SMG: Semantic Motion Graph for Monocular Dynamic Gaussian Splatting},
  author = {Haozheng Yu, Xinyu Yang, Rundong Luo, Jennifer J Sun, and Bharath Hariharan},
  year = {2026},
}

@inproceedings{zhao2026pretraining22,
  title = {Pre-training Limited Memory Language Models with Internal and External Knowledge},
  author = {Linxi Zhao, Sofian Zalouk, Christian K Belardi, Justin Lovelace, Jin Peng Zhou, Ryan Thomas Noonan, Dongyoung Go, Kilian Q Weinberger, Yoav Artzi, and Jennifer J Sun},
  year = {2026},
  booktitle = {International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)},
  note = {Best Paper Runner-up, NeurIPS 2025 Workshop on Causal and Compositional Foundations of Language Models (CCFM)},
  url = {https://openreview.net/forum?id=cvztBvlglK},
}

@article{dai2026pretrained28,
  title = {Pre-trained Large Language Models Learn to Predict Hidden Markov Models In-context},
  author = {Yijia Dai, Zhaolin Gao, Yahya Sattar, Sarah Dean, and Jennifer Sun},
  year = {2025},
  journal = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems},
  volume = {38},
  pages = {28877-28923},
  url = {https://mlanthology.org/neurips/2025/dai2025neurips-pretrained/},
}

@inproceedings{lin2025beyond37,
  title = {Beyond Accuracy: Metrics that Uncover What Makes a'Good'Visual Descriptor},
  author = {Ethan Lin, Linxi Zhao, Atharva Sehgal, and Jennifer J Sun},
  year = {2025},
  booktitle = {CVPR 2025 Workshop on Visual Concepts (VisCon)},
  note = {Best Poster Award},
  url = {https://ethan-y-lin.github.io/beyond-accuracy-project-page/},
}

@inproceedings{sarkar2025how42,
  title = {How many classes do we need to see for novel class discovery?},
  author = {Akanksha Sarkar, Been Kim, and Jennifer J Sun},
  year = {2025},
  booktitle = {CVPR 2025 Workshop on Domain Generalization: Evolution, Breakthroughs, and Future Horizons},
}

@article{sun2026tracking29,
  title = {Tracking and understanding object transformations},
  author = {Yihong Sun, Xinyu Yang, Jennifer Sun, and Bharath Hariharan},
  year = {2025},
  journal = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems},
  volume = {38},
  pages = {81039-81065},
  url = {https://openreview.net/forum?id=fz1mm2EsQ9},
}