John J. Vastola
Scholar

John J. Vastola

Google Scholar ID: LMFIFBcAAAAJ
Postdoctoral fellow, Harvard Medical School
computational neuroscienceartificial intelligencequantitative biology
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Publications
20
 
Co-authors
3
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Publications
5 items
A Variational Manifold Embedding Framework for Nonlinear Dimensionality Reduction
2025
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Gradient Descent as Loss Landscape Navigation: a Normative Framework for Deriving Learning Rules
2025
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Deep RL Needs Deep Behavior Analysis: Exploring Implicit Planning by Model-Free Agents in Open-Ended Environments
2025
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Generalization through variance: how noise shapes inductive biases in diffusion models
2025
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Dynamical symmetries in the fluctuation-driven regime: an application of Noether's theorem to noisy dynamical systems
2025
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Resume (English only)
Research Experience
  • Postdoc in the labs of Sam Gershman and Kanaka Rajan.
Background
  • Postdoc in the labs of Sam Gershman and Kanaka Rajan at the Center for Brain Science and Kempner Institute, Harvard University.
Co-authors
3 total
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Lior Pachter
Lior Pachter
Bren Professor of Computational Biology, Caltech
Binxu Wang
Binxu Wang
Kempner Institute, Harvard Medical School