Research
- Information Flow in ViTs
- Shape Perception
- Cortical Topography
- Mid-level Vision
- Intuitive Physics
- Visual Working Memory
- Other
Dissecting Information Flow in ViTs

Bi-orthogonal Factor Decomposition for Vision Transformers
Fenil R. Doshi, Thomas Fel, Talia Konkle, George A. Alvarez
preprint
[Paper] [Project Page] [Twitter]
Fenil R. Doshi, Thomas Fel, Talia Konkle, George A. Alvarez
preprint
[Paper] [Project Page] [Twitter]

From Local to Contextually-Enriched Local Representations: A Mechanism for Holistic Processing in DINOv2 ViTs
Fenil R. Doshi, Thomas Fel, Talia Konkle, George A. Alvarez
Mechanistic Interpretability Workshop at NeurIPS 2025
[Paper]
Fenil R. Doshi, Thomas Fel, Talia Konkle, George A. Alvarez
Mechanistic Interpretability Workshop at NeurIPS 2025
[Paper]
Shape Perception

Visual Anagrams Reveal Hidden Differences in Holistic Shape Processing Across Vision Models
Fenil R. Doshi, Thomas Fel, Talia Konkle, George A. Alvarez
NeurIPS 2025
[Paper] [Project Page] [Poster] [Twitter]
Fenil R. Doshi, Thomas Fel, Talia Konkle, George A. Alvarez
NeurIPS 2025
[Paper] [Project Page] [Poster] [Twitter]


Cortical Topography

Cortical topographic motifs emerge in a self-organized map of object space
Fenil R. Doshi, Talia Konkle
Science Advances 2023
[Paper] [Twitter] [Talk-VSS 21]
Fenil R. Doshi, Talia Konkle
Science Advances 2023
[Paper] [Twitter] [Talk-VSS 21]

Mid-level Vision

A feedforward mechanism for human-like contour integration
Fenil R. Doshi, Talia Konkle, George A. Alvarez
PLOS Computational Biology, 2025
[Paper] [Twitter] [Talk-VSS 22]
Fenil R. Doshi, Talia Konkle, George A. Alvarez
PLOS Computational Biology, 2025
[Paper] [Twitter] [Talk-VSS 22]

Intuitive Physics

Shared Representations of Stability in Humans, Supervised, & Unsupervised Neural Networks
Colin Conwell, Fenil Doshi, George A. Alvarez
SVRHM Workshop at NeurIPS 2019
[Paper]
Colin Conwell, Fenil Doshi, George A. Alvarez
SVRHM Workshop at NeurIPS 2019
[Paper]

Human-Like Judgments of Stability Emerge from Purely Perceptual Features: Evidence from Supervised and Unsupervised Deep Neural Networks
Colin Conwell, Fenil Doshi, George A. Alvarez
Cognitive Computational Neuroscience (CCN), 2019
[Paper]
Colin Conwell, Fenil Doshi, George A. Alvarez
Cognitive Computational Neuroscience (CCN), 2019
[Paper]
Capacity Limits in Visual Working Memory

Using Deep Convolutional Neural Networks to Examine the Role of Representational Similarity in Visual Working Memory
Fenil Doshi, Hrag Pailian, George A. Alvarez
Journal of Vision, 2020
[Paper] [Poster] [Co-author Talk]
Fenil Doshi, Hrag Pailian, George A. Alvarez
Journal of Vision, 2020
[Paper] [Poster] [Co-author Talk]
Other

Adaptive adversarial neural networks for the analysis of lossy and domain-shifted datasets of medical images
M. Kanakasabapathy, P. Thirumalaraju, H. Kandula, F. Doshi, A. Sivakumar, D. Kartik, R. Gupta, R. Pooniwala, J. Branda, A. Tsibris, D. Kuritzkes, J. Petrozza, C. Bormann, H. Shafiee
Nature Biomedical Engineering, 2021
[Paper] [Fertstert Abstract]
M. Kanakasabapathy, P. Thirumalaraju, H. Kandula, F. Doshi, A. Sivakumar, D. Kartik, R. Gupta, R. Pooniwala, J. Branda, A. Tsibris, D. Kuritzkes, J. Petrozza, C. Bormann, H. Shafiee
Nature Biomedical Engineering, 2021
[Paper] [Fertstert Abstract]

Machine learning predictions of irradiation embrittlement in reactor pressure vessel steels
Yc. Liu, H. Wu, T. Mayeshiba, ..Fenil Doshi, ..et al.
NPJ Computational Materials, 2022
[Paper]
Yc. Liu, H. Wu, T. Mayeshiba, ..Fenil Doshi, ..et al.
NPJ Computational Materials, 2022
[Paper]
