Selected Publications
2026
Decoding inner speech with an end-to-end brain-to-text neural interface
Yizi Zhang*†, Linyang He*†, Chaofei Fan, Tingkai Liu, Han Yu, Trung Le, Jingyuan Li, Scott Linderman, Lea Duncker, Francis R Willett, Nima Mesgarani, Liam Paninski
ICLR (2026)
SightSound-R1: Cross-Modal Reasoning Distillation from Vision to Audio Language Models
Qiaolin Wang, Xilin Jiang, Linyang He, Junkai Wu, Nima Mesgarani
ICASSP (2026)
From Chains to DAGs: Probing the Graph Structure of Reasoning in LLMs
Tianjun Zhong, Linyang He, Nima Mesgarani
Preprint (2026)
2025
Far from the Shallow: Brain-Predictive Reasoning Embedding through Residual Disentanglement
Linyang He*, Tianjun Zhong*, Richard Antonello, Gavin Mischler, Micah Goldblum, Nima Mesgarani
NeurIPS (2025)
Layer-wise minimal pair probing reveals contextual grammatical-conceptual hierarchy in speech representations
Linyang He*, Qiaolin Wang*, Xilin Jiang, Nima Mesgarani
EMNLP (2025)
Large Language Models as Neurolinguistic Subjects: Discrepancy between Performance and Competence
Linyang He, Ercong Nie, Helmut Schmid, Hinrich Schütze, Nima Mesgarani, Jonathan Brennan
Findings of ACL (2025)
2024
Convergent representations and spatiotemporal dynamics of speech and language in brain and deep neural networks
Peili Chen, Shiji Xiang, Linyang He, Edward F Chang, Yuanning Li
bioRxiv (2024)
Do self-supervised speech and language models extract similar representations as human brain?
Peili Chen, Linyang He, Li Fu, Lu Fan, Edward F Chang, Yuanning Li
ICASSP (2024)
Decoding Probing: Revealing Internal Linguistic Structures in Neural Language Models Using Minimal Pairs
Linyang He, Peili Chen, Ercong Nie, Yuanning Li, Jonathan R Brennan
COLING (2024)