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William Bialek
q-bio.NCphysics.bio-phcond-mat.stat-mechq-bio.MNcond-mat.dis-nnq-bio.QMModels, NeurologicalModels, BiologicalModels, Geneticnlin.AO
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Thermodynamics for a network of neurons: Signatures of criticality
with Gasper Tkacik, Thierry Mora, Olivier Marre, Dario Amodei +1
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211 papers in the corpus · 1981–2026Exactly solvable statistical physics models for large neuronal populations.42569757 · Lynn, Christopher W, Yu, Qiwei, Pang, Rich et al.2026 · 9 citationsPhysical review research. 2025;7(2)
Exactly solvable statistical physics models for large neuronal populations.37904743 · Lynn, Christopher W, Yu, Qiwei, Pang, Rich et al.2026 · 9 citationsArXiv. 2023
Probabilistic Models, Compressible Interactions, and Neural Coding.42559610 · Ramirez, Luisa, Bialek, William, Palmer, Stephanie E et al.2026 · 2 citationsPRX life. 2026;4(2)
Scale invariance in early embryonic development.38235065 · Nikolić, Miloš, Antonetti, Victoria, Liu, Feng et al.2026 · 7 citationsArXiv. 2023
Extended Mean-Field Theories for Networks of Real Neurons.42489188 · Di Carlo, Luca, Mignacco, Francesca, Lynn, Christopher W et al.2026 · 1 citationPhysical review letters. 2026;137(1):018401
The FlEye camera: Sampling the joint distribution of natural scenes and motion.42141625 · Edelson, Charles J, Smith, Paul, Setayeshgar, Sima et al.2026 · 1 citationPhysical review. E. 2026;113(4-1):044412
Searching for sequence features that control DNA cyclizability.42255020 · Gordiychuk, Margarita, Park, Jonghan, Basu, Aakash et al.2026 · 2 citationsPNAS nexus. 2026;5(6):pgag167
Large language models and the entropy of English2512.24969v1 · Colin Scheibner, Lindsay M. Smith, William Bialek2025 · 0 citationsarXiv
When many noisy genes optimize information flow2512.14055v1 · Nicholas Lawson, William Bialek2025 · 0 citationsarXiv
Context dependent adaptation in a neural computation2509.01760v1 · Charles J. Edelson, Sima Setayeshgar, William Bialek et al.2025 · 0 citationsarXiv
Maximum entropy models for patterns of gene expression.40826535 · Sarra, Camilla, Sarra, Leopoldo, Di Carlo, Luca et al.2025 · 2 citationsPhysical review. E. 2025;112(1-1):014408
Neural subspaces, minimax entropy, and mean-field theory for networks of neurons2508.02633v1 · Luca Di Carlo, Francesca Mignacco, Christopher W. Lynn et al.2025 · 0 citationsarXiv
Optimization and variability can coexist.40492252 · Bauer, Marianne, Bialek, William, Goddard, Chase et al.2025 · 1 citationArXiv. 2025
Exact minimax entropy models of large-scale neuronal activity.40533950 · Lynn, Christopher W, Yu, Qiwei, Pang, Rich et al.2025 · 8 citationsPhysical review. E. 2025;111(5-1):054411
Optimization and variability can coexist2505.23398v1 · Marianne Bauer, William Bialek, Chase Goddard et al.2025 · 1 citationarXiv
How different are self and nonself?2212.12049v2 · Andreas Mayer, Jonathan A. Levine, Christopher J. Russo et al.2022 · 8 citationsarXiv
Extended mean-field theories for networks of real neurons2504.15197v1 · Luca Di Carlo, Francesca Mignacco, Christopher W. Lynn et al.2025 · 1 citationarXiv
Toward a statistical mechanics of four letter words0801.0253v1 · Greg J. Stephens, William Bialek2007 · 78 citationsPhysical Review E 81, 066119 (2010)
Thermodynamics for a network of neurons: Signatures of criticality1407.5946v1 · Gasper Tkacik, Thierry Mora, Olivier Marre et al.2014 · 23 citationsProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (USA)112, 11508-11513 (2015)on Valency
Trading bits in the readout from a genetic network2012.15817v1 · Marianne Bauer, Mariela D. Petkova, Thomas Gregor et al.2020 · 33 citationsProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (USA) 118, e2109011118 (2021)
Finding the last bits of positional information2312.05963v1 · Lauren McGough, Helena Casademunt, Milos Nikoli'c et al.2023 · 19 citationsPRX Life 2, 013016 (2024)
Scale invariance in early embryonic development2312.17684v1 · Milos Nikoli'c, Victoria Antonetti, Feng Liu et al.2023 · 21 citationsProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (USA) 121, e2403265121 (2024)
Deriving a genetic regulatory network from an optimization principle.39752518 · Sokolowski, Thomas R, Gregor, Thomas, Bialek, William et al.2025 · 26 citationsProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 2025;122(1):e2402925121
Searching for Sequence Features that Control DNA Cyclizability10.1101/2025.01.02.631081v1 · Gordiychuk, M., Park, J., Basu, A. et al.2025 · 2 citationsbioRxiv
The FlEye camera: Sampling the joint distribution of natural scenes and motion2412.21081v1 · Charles J. Edelson, Paul Smith, Sima Setayeshgar et al.2024 · 1 citationarXiv
Direct estimates of irreversibility from time series2412.19772v1 · Trevor GrandPre, Gianluca Teza, William Bialek2024 · 2 citationsarXiv
Moving boundaries: An appreciation of John Hopfield2412.18030v1 · William Bialek2024 · 0 citationsarXiv
What makes it possible to learn probability distributions in the natural world?2008.12279v3 · William Bialek, Stephanie E. Palmer, David J. Schwab2020 · 1 citationarXiv
Probabilistic models, compressible interactions, and neural coding2112.14334v2 · Luisa Ramirez, William Bialek, Stephanie E. Palmer et al.2021 · 2 citationsarXiv
Searching for long timescales without fine tuning.39425360 · Chen, Xiaowen, Bialek, William2024 · 5 citationsPhysical review. E. 2024;110(3-1):034407
A brief tutorial on information theory2402.16556v3 · Tarek Tohme, William Bialek2024 · 2 citationsSciPost Phys. Lect. Notes 87 (2024)
Statistical mechanics for networks of real neurons2409.00412v1 · Leenoy Meshulam, William Bialek2024 · 13 citationsarXiv
Searching for long time scales without fine tuning2008.11674v3 · Xiaowen Chen, William Bialek2020 · 3 citationsarXiv
Maximum entropy models for patterns of gene expression2408.08037v1 · Camilla Sarra, Leopoldo Sarra, Luca Di Carlo et al.2024 · 2 citationsarXiv
Ambitions for theory in the physics of life2401.15538v2 · William Bialek2024 · 4 citationsSciPost Phys. Lect. Notes 84 (2024)
Long time scales, individual differences, and scale invariance in animal behavior.37131886 · Bialek, William, Shaevitz, Joshua W2024 · 23 citationsArXiv. 2023
Exact minimax entropy models of large-scale neuronal activity2402.00007v1 · Christopher W. Lynn, Qiwei Yu, Rich Pang et al.2023 · 8 citationsarXiv
Perspectives on theory at the interface of physics and biology1512.08954v1 · William Bialek2015 · 54 citationsRep Prog Phys 81, 012601 (2018)
Optimal decoding of information from a genetic network1612.08084v1 · Mariela D. Petkova, Gasper Tkacik, William Bialek et al.2016 · 215 citationsCell 176, 844 (2019)
What do we mean by the dimensionality of behavior?2008.09574v1 · William Bialek2020 · 61 citationsProc Natl Acad Sci (USA) 119, e2021860119 (2022)
Long time scales, individual differences, and scale invariance in animal behavior2304.09608v1 · William Bialek, Joshua W. Shaevitz2023 · 23 citationsPhys Rev Lett 321, 048401 (2024)
Deriving a genetic regulatory network from an optimization principle2302.05680v2 · Thomas R Sokolowski, Thomas Gregor, William Bialek et al.2023 · 26 citationsarXiv
Exactly solvable statistical physics models for large neuronal populations2310.10860v1 · Christopher W. Lynn, Qiwei Yu, Rich Pang et al.2023 · 9 citationsarXiv
Keith Brueckner (1924-2014). A biographical memoir2308.16411v1 · William Bialek2023 · 0 citationsarXiv
Successes and failures of simple statistical physics models for a network of real neurons2112.14735v2 · Leenoy Meshulam, Jeffrey L. Gauthier, Carlos D. Brody et al.2021 · 4 citationsarXiv
How accurately must cells measure the concentrations of signaling molecules?2212.12471v1 · Marianne Bauer, William Bialek2022 · 0 citationsarXiv
Decomposing the local arrow of time in interacting systems2112.14721v2 · Christopher W. Lynn, Caroline M. Holmes, William Bialek et al.2021 · 60 citationsarXiv
Emergence of local irreversibility in complex interacting systems2203.01916v2 · Christopher W. Lynn, Caroline M. Holmes, William Bialek et al.2022 · 29 citationsarXiv
Statistics of natural images: Scaling in the woods.10057546 · Ruderman, Bialek2022 · 951 citationsPhysical review letters. 1994;73(6):814-817
Optimal local estimates of visual motion in a natural environment1812.11878v1 · Shiva R. Sinha, William Bialek, Rob R. de Ruyter van Steveninck2018 · 15 citationsPhys. Rev. Lett. 126, 018101 (2021)
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