Binxu Wang^*, Jingxuan Fan^*, and Xu Pan^*. "Circuit Mechanisms for Spatial Relation Generation in Diffusion Transformers." arXiv preprint arXiv:2601.06338 (2026).

Xu Pan^*, Ely Hahami^*, Jingxuan Fan^*, Ziqian Xie, and Haim Sompolinsky. "Diffusion-Inspired Masked Fine-Tuning for Knowledge Injection in Autoregressive LLMs." arXiv preprint arXiv:2510.09885 (2025).

Xu Pan^*, Jingxuan Fan^*, Zidi Xiong, Ely Hahami, Jorin Overwiening, and Ziqian Xie. "User-Assistant Bias in LLMs." arXiv preprint arXiv:2508.15815 (2025).

Xu Pan^*, Ely Hahami^*, Zechen Zhang, and Haim Sompolinsky. "Memorization and Knowledge Injection in Gated LLMs." arXiv preprint arXiv:2504.21239 (2025).

Xu Pan and Odelia Schwartz. "Multimodal AI needs active human interaction." Nature Human Behaviour (2024): 1-2. (Correspondence, non-research article)

Xu Pan, Aaron Philip, Ziqian Xie, and Odelia Schwartz. "Dissecting Query-Key Interaction in Vision Transformers." NeurIPS (2024). Spotlight

Xu Pan, Ruben Coen-Cagli, and Odelia Schwartz. "Probing the Structure and Functional Properties of the Dropout-Induced Correlated Variability in Convolutional Neural Networks." Neural computation 36, no. 4 (2024): 621-644.

Xu Pan, Annie DeForge, and Odelia Schwartz. "Generalizing biological surround suppression based on center surround similarity via deep neural network models." PLoS Computational Biology 19, no. 9 (2023): e1011486.

Edward B. James^*, Xu Pan^*, Odelia Schwartz, and Alex CC Wilson. "SymbiQuant: A machine learning object detection tool for polyploid independent estimates of endosymbiont population size." Frontiers in microbiology 13 (2022): 816608.

Xu Pan, Luis Gonzalo Sánchez Giraldo, Elif Kartal, and Odelia Schwartz. "Brain-inspired weighted normalization for CNN image classification." ICLR 2021 Workshop: How Can Findings About The Brain Improve AI bioRxiv 2021.05.20.445029; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.05.20.445029

Shijia Geng, Gang Ren, Xu Pan, Joel Zysman, and Mitsu Ogihara. "Sequential Modeling of Temporal Timbre Series for Popular Music Sub-Genre Analyses Using Deep Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers." In Audio Engineering Society Conference: 2020 AES International Conference on Audio for Virtual and Augmented Reality. Audio Engineering Society, 2020.