Dr. Elena Rivers

Publications

A complete list is also available on Google Scholar. Datasets and code accompany most papers — equal-contribution authorship is noted on each PDF.

2026
Representational drift reflects ongoing credit assignment, not noise Preprint
A. Okafor, Dr. Elena Rivers, M. Tanaka
bioRxiv, 2026
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2025
Local error signals approximate backpropagation in deep cortical models Spotlight
Dr. Elena Rivers, J. Park, L. Moreau
Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2025
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Low-dimensional dynamics of learning in recurrent networks
S. Verma, Dr. Elena Rivers
Nature Neuroscience, 2025
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2024
A state-space toolbox for large-scale neural recordings
Dr. Elena Rivers, R. Chen, A. Okafor
Journal of Open Source Software, 2024
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Continual learning without catastrophic forgetting via synaptic consolidation
L. Moreau, Dr. Elena Rivers, D. Singh
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2024
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2023
Stable behavior from unstable neural codes
Dr. Elena Rivers, M. Tanaka
eLife, 2023
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2022
Inferring plasticity rules from spiking activity
J. Park, Dr. Elena Rivers, S. Verma
PLOS Computational Biology, 2022
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