William Bialek

30.7k citations
153 papers · 18.1k indexed · 11 hit papers · h-index 62

William Bialek

148 papers receiving 17.6k citations

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William Bialek
Comparison fields: 5 of 195
  • Cognitive Neuroscience 9.9k
  • Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience 5.0k
  • Statistical and Nonlinear Physics 3.0k
  • Aging 353
  • Developmental Biology 268
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The 25 scholars most cited alongside William Bialek, linked wherever they have co-authored with each other. Click a name or a connecting line to browse the papers they share.

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
#Work
1 20254
2 20250
3 202411
4 20239
5 20212
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Information-bottleneck renormalization group for self-supervised representation learning
20202
7 2016119
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Can simple interactions capture complex features of neural activity underlying behavior in a virtual reality environment
20162
9 2015134
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Mapping the stereotyped behaviour of freely moving fruit fliesbreakdown →
2014308
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Optimizing information flow in biological networks
20091
12 200760
13 2005149
14 2005244
15 2004114
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Geometric Clustering Using the Information Bottleneck Method
200317
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Optimal Manifold Representation of Data: An Information Theoretic Approach
20037
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The information bottleneck methodbreakdown →
2000584
19 19925
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Reading a Neural Code
19892

About William Bialek

William Bialek is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Aging and Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, having authored 153 papers that have together received 18.1k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Neural dynamics and brain function (75 papers), Neurobiology and Insect Physiology Research (25 papers), Visual perception and processing mechanisms (25 papers), Gene Regulatory Network Analysis (25 papers), Neural Networks and Applications (23 papers), stochastic dynamics and bifurcation (22 papers), Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies (11 papers) and Advanced Memory and Neural Computing (8 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Cognitive Neuroscience (9.9k citations), Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience (5.0k citations) and Statistical and Nonlinear Physics (3.0k citations). William Bialek has collaborated with scholars based in United States, France and Italy. Frequent co-authors include Rob de Ruyter van Steveninck, Fred Rieke, Rob R. de Ruyter van Steveninck, Michael J. Berry, Elad Schneidman, Thierry Mora, Steven Strong, Daniel Ruderman, Thomas Gregor and R. Köberle. Their work appears in journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Physical Review Letters, Neural Computation, Physical review. E and Biophysical Journal.

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