Simon Kornblith

15.2k total citations · 3 hit papers
29 papers, 2.4k citations indexed

About

Simon Kornblith is a scholar working on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Simon Kornblith has authored 29 papers receiving a total of 2.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 14 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 13 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 12 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Simon Kornblith's work include Neural dynamics and brain function (10 papers), Advanced Neural Network Applications (10 papers) and Domain Adaptation and Few-Shot Learning (9 papers). Simon Kornblith is often cited by papers focused on Neural dynamics and brain function (10 papers), Advanced Neural Network Applications (10 papers) and Domain Adaptation and Few-Shot Learning (9 papers). Simon Kornblith collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Germany. Simon Kornblith's co-authors include Quoc V. Le, Jonathon Shlens, Earl K. Miller, Rodrigo Quian Quiroga, Florian Mormann, Christof Koch, Itzhak Fried, Mikael Lundqvist, Mohammad Norouzi and Alexander Kraskov and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Neuron.

In The Last Decade

Simon Kornblith

28 papers receiving 2.4k citations

Hit Papers

Do Better ImageNet Models Transfer Better? 2019 2026 2021 2023 2019 2021 2022 200 400 600
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Do Better ImageNet Models Transfer Better?
    2019 666 citations Simon Kornblith, Quoc V. Le et al. profile →
  2. Big Self-Supervised Models Advance Medical Image Classification
    2021 336 citations Simon Kornblith et al. profile →
  3. Robust fine-tuning of zero-shot models
    2022 208 citations Simon Kornblith et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Simon Kornblith United States 19 914 785 766 353 252 29 2.4k
Yali Amit United States 23 740 0.8× 636 0.8× 1.5k 1.9× 275 0.8× 264 1.0× 58 3.1k
Ha Hong United States 12 331 0.4× 1.5k 1.9× 544 0.7× 283 0.8× 143 0.6× 23 2.3k
Wieland Brendel Germany 14 839 0.9× 503 0.6× 494 0.6× 144 0.4× 139 0.6× 44 1.9k
Neil C. Rabinowitz United Kingdom 10 3.0k 3.3× 733 0.9× 1.6k 2.0× 248 0.7× 196 0.8× 14 4.6k
Y-Lan Boureau United States 18 1.5k 1.6× 431 0.5× 2.0k 2.6× 165 0.5× 191 0.8× 23 3.9k
Charles F. Cadieu United States 16 363 0.4× 1.9k 2.4× 713 0.9× 170 0.5× 271 1.1× 24 2.7k
Qi Zhao United States 30 529 0.6× 875 1.1× 2.0k 2.6× 119 0.3× 92 0.4× 105 3.2k
Huiguang He China 35 485 0.5× 2.4k 3.1× 543 0.7× 658 1.9× 281 1.1× 180 3.9k
Erhardt Barth Germany 28 407 0.4× 746 1.0× 1.6k 2.0× 346 1.0× 117 0.5× 128 3.3k
Reza Boostani Iran 29 546 0.6× 1.8k 2.3× 440 0.6× 279 0.8× 333 1.3× 243 3.6k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Simon Kornblith

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Simon Kornblith

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Simon Kornblith. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Simon Kornblith based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Simon Kornblith. Simon Kornblith is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Greff, Klaus, Bernhard Spitzer, Simon Kornblith, et al.. (2025). Aligning machine and human visual representations across abstraction levels. Nature. 647(8089). 349–355.
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Rajimehr, Reza, et al.. (2024). Functional architecture of cerebral cortex during naturalistic movie watching. Neuron. 112(24). 4130–4146.e3. 8 indexed citations
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Beyer, Lucas, Pavel Izmailov, А. И. Колесников, et al.. (2023). FlexiViT: One Model for All Patch Sizes. 14496–14506. 43 indexed citations
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Kornblith, Simon, Lala Li, Zi-Rui Wang, & Thao Nguyen. (2023). Guiding image captioning models toward more specific captions. 15213–15223. 6 indexed citations
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Kar, Kohitij, Simon Kornblith, & Evelina Fedorenko. (2022). Interpretability of artificial neural network models in artificial intelligence versus neuroscience. Nature Machine Intelligence. 4(12). 1065–1067. 23 indexed citations
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Huynh, Tri, Simon Kornblith, Matthew R. Walter, Michael Maire, & Maryam Khademi. (2022). Boosting Contrastive Self-Supervised Learning with False Negative Cancellation. 2022 IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV). 986–996. 90 indexed citations
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Nguyen, Thao, Maithra Raghu, & Simon Kornblith. (2021). Do Wide and Deep Networks Learn the Same Things? Uncovering How Neural Network Representations Vary with Width and Depth. arXiv (Cornell University). 52 indexed citations
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Brincat, Scott L., Jacob Donoghue, Meredith Mahnke, et al.. (2021). Interhemispheric transfer of working memories. Neuron. 109(6). 1055–1066.e4. 30 indexed citations
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Hermann, Katherine L., Ting Chen, & Simon Kornblith. (2020). The Origins and Prevalence of Texture Bias in Convolutional Neural Networks. Neural Information Processing Systems. 33. 19000–19015. 7 indexed citations
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Hermann, Katherine L. & Simon Kornblith. (2019). Exploring the Origins and Prevalence of Texture Bias in Convolutional Neural Networks.. arXiv (Cornell University). 4 indexed citations
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Kornblith, Simon, et al.. (2019). When does label smoothing help. Neural Information Processing Systems. 32. 4694–4703. 70 indexed citations
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Elsayed, Gamaleldin F., Simon Kornblith, & Quoc V. Le. (2019). Saccader: Improving Accuracy of Hard Attention Models for Vision. arXiv (Cornell University). 32. 700–712. 5 indexed citations
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Bastos, André M., Roman Loonis, Simon Kornblith, Mikael Lundqvist, & Earl K. Miller. (2018). Laminar recordings in frontal cortex suggest distinct layers for maintenance and control of working memory. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 115(5). 1117–1122. 180 indexed citations
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Kornblith, Simon & Doris Y. Tsao. (2017). How thoughts arise from sights: inferotemporal and prefrontal contributions to vision. Current Opinion in Neurobiology. 46. 208–218. 13 indexed citations
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Kornblith, Simon, Rodrigo Quian Quiroga, Christof Koch, Itzhak Fried, & Florian Mormann. (2017). Persistent Single-Neuron Activity during Working Memory in the Human Medial Temporal Lobe. Current Biology. 27(7). 1026–1032. 86 indexed citations
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Kornblith, Simon, Timothy J. Buschman, & Earl K. Miller. (2015). Stimulus Load and Oscillatory Activity in Higher Cortex. Cerebral Cortex. 26(9). 3772–3784. 65 indexed citations
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Mulliken, Grant H., et al.. (2014). Custom-fit radiolucent cranial implants for neurophysiological recording and stimulation. Journal of Neuroscience Methods. 241. 146–154. 22 indexed citations
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Kornblith, Simon, Xueqi Cheng, Shay Ohayon, & Doris Y. Tsao. (2013). A Network for Scene Processing in the Macaque Temporal Lobe. Neuron. 79(4). 766–781. 100 indexed citations
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Mormann, Florian, Julien Dubois, Simon Kornblith, et al.. (2011). A category-specific response to animals in the right human amygdala. Nature Neuroscience. 14(10). 1247–1249. 124 indexed citations
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Mormann, Florian, Simon Kornblith, Rodrigo Quian Quiroga, et al.. (2008). Latency and Selectivity of Single Neurons Indicate Hierarchical Processing in the Human Medial Temporal Lobe. Journal of Neuroscience. 28(36). 8865–8872. 162 indexed citations

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