Publications

Preprints

• 2025 — Smart, M., Bietti, A., and Sengupta, A. M.
  In-context denoising with one-layer transformers: connections between attention and associative memory retrieval
  Accepted to ICML 2025 (Oral Presentation). arXiv:2502.05164

Peer-Reviewed Publications

• 2024 — Smart, M., Shvartsman, S. Y., and Mönnigmann, M.
  Minimal motifs for habituating systems
  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 121(41), e2409330121

• 2024 — Smart, M., Shvartsman, S. Y., and Mönnigmann, M.
  A minimal dynamical system and analog circuit for non-associative learning
  IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC)

• 2023 — Smart, M., Shvartsman, S. Y., and Nunley, H.
  A model of replicating coupled oscillators generates naturally occurring cell networks
  Development, 150(22), dev202187

• 2023 — Smart, M. and Zilman, A.
  Emergent properties of collective gene-expression patterns in multicellular systems
  Cell Reports Physical Science, 101247

• 2021 — Smart, M. and Zilman, A.
  On the mapping between Hopfield networks and Restricted Boltzmann Machines
  International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) Selected for Oral Presentation [acceptance rate: 1.8%]

• 2021 — *Kirby, D., *Rothschild, J., *Smart, M., and Zilman, A.
  Pleiotropy enables specific and accurate signaling in the presence of ligand cross talk
  Physical Review E, 103, 042401 *Denotes equal contribution

• 2021 — Smart, M., Goyal, S., and Zilman, A.
  Roles of phenotypic heterogeneity and microenvironment feedback in early tumor development
  Physical Review E, 103, 032407

• 2017 — Smart, M., Rajagopal, A., Liu, W-K., and Ha, B-Y.
  Opposing effects of cationic antimicrobial peptides and divalent cations on bacterial lipopolysaccharides
  Physical Review E, 96, 042405

• 2016 — Wong, M. J. Q., Liang, X., Smart, M., Tang, L., Moore, R., Ingalls, B., and Dong, T. G.
  Microbial Herd Protection Mediated by Antagonistic Interaction in Polymicrobial Communities
  Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 82(23), 6881–6888

Other Publications

• 2024 — Smart, M., Moreno, D. F., and Acar, M.
  Rationally reprogramming single-cell aging trajectories and lifespan through dynamic modulation of environmental inputs
  Cell Systems (Preview), 15 (8), 676-678