Kaiwen Bian

Research

Past research and projects that I have worked on and am currently working on.

Representation Learning Embodied Agents Computational Neuroscience Generative Models Agentic Systems & Harness LLM Powered Applied Data Science

Beyond Flat Walks: Compositional Abstraction for Autoregressive Graph Generation

K. Bian, A.H. Yang, A. Parviz, G. Mishne, Y. Wang

NeurIPS 2026 Project Page / arXiv Paper (coming soon) / Code

Representation Learning Generative Models

Discrete Actions for Naturalistic Behavior in Embodied Biomechanical Animal Models

K. Bian, C.Y. Zhang, Y. Yang, A. Sirbu, E.J. Leonardis, B.P. Ölveczky, T.D. Pereira

NeurIPS 2026 Neuro-Symbolic Embodied Intelligence Workshop (Oral) Project Page / arXiv Paper (coming soon) / Code

Representation Learning Embodied Agents

Shaped by What's Missing: Topological Invariance Simplification Discovers Behavioral Transitions

K. Bian, E.J. Leonardis, Y. Yang, C. Zhang, Y. Wang, T.D. Pereira

NeurIPS 2026 NeurReps Workshop (PMLR) Project Page / arXiv Paper (coming soon) / Code

Representation Learning Computational Neuroscience
MIMIC-MJX

MIMIC-MJX: Neuromechanical Emulation of Animal Behavior

C.Y. Zhang, Y. Yang, A. Sirbu, E.J. Leonardis, E. Abe, E. Warnberg, D.E. Aldarondo, A. Lee, A. Prasad, J. Foat, K. Bian, J. Park, R. Bhatt, H. Saunders, A. Nagamori, A.R. Thanawalla, K.W. Huang, F. Plum, H. Beck, S.W. Flavell, D. Labonte, B.A. Richards, B.W. Brunton, E. Azim, B.P. Ölveczky, T.D. Pereira

Nature Methods (submitted) Project Page / arXiv Paper / Code

Representation Learning Embodied Agents Computational Neuroscience

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