Yudan Ren

Tianyang Zhong, Zhengliang Liu, Yi Pan et al.

This comprehensive study evaluates the performance of OpenAI's o1-preview large language model across a diverse array of complex reasoning tasks, spanning multiple domains, including computer science, mathematics, natural sciences, medicine, linguistics, and social sciences. Through rigorous testing, o1-preview demonstrated remarkable capabilities, often achieving human-level or superior performance in areas ranging from coding challenges to scientific reasoning and from language processing to creative problem-solving. Key findings include: -83.3% success rate in solving complex competitive programming problems, surpassing many human experts. -Superior ability in generating coherent and accurate radiology reports, outperforming other evaluated models. -100% accuracy in high school-level mathematical reasoning tasks, providing detailed step-by-step solutions. -Advanced natural language inference capabilities across general and specialized domains like medicine. -Impressive performance in chip design tasks, outperforming specialized models in areas such as EDA script generation and bug analysis. -Remarkable proficiency in anthropology and geology, demonstrating deep understanding and reasoning in these specialized fields. -Strong capabilities in quantitative investing. O1 has comprehensive financial knowledge and statistical modeling skills. -Effective performance in social media analysis, including sentiment analysis and emotion recognition. The model excelled particularly in tasks requiring intricate reasoning and knowledge integration across various fields. While some limitations were observed, including occasional errors on simpler problems and challenges with certain highly specialized concepts, the overall results indicate significant progress towards artificial general intelligence.

Yudan Ren, Pengcheng Shi, Zihan Ma et al.

Visual image reconstruction from functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) is a fundamental task in brain decoding, providing a crucial pathway for understanding human perceptual mechanisms and developing advanced brain-computer interfaces (BCIs). However, most current methods simply flatten fMRI signals from localized visual cortices into one-dimensional (1D) vectors, mapping them directly into latent spaces such as that of Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP). This paradigm not only disrupts the inherent network topology of the brain-leading to limited neuroscientific interpretability-but also overlooks the synergistic contributions of other distributed functional networks in processing high-level visual semantics. To address these limitations, we propose FPED, a Functional-Network Prior-Guided Mixture of Experts (MoE) framework for interpretable brain decoding. FPED explicitly models different functional brain networks as specialized experts and employs adaptive routing to capture their complementary contributions to visual semantic understanding. Unlike conventional homogeneous decoding paradigms, our framework incorporates neurobiologically grounded priors to enable structured and interpretable network-level representation learning. Experimental results demonstrate that FPED achieves highly competitive semantic reconstruction performance with only 0.68B parameters. The learned routing dynamics reveal biologically meaningful correspondence between functional brain networks and modality-specific semantic processing, providing transparent neuroscientific interpretability. This suggests that brain network-aware expert modeling is a promising direction for bridging neural decoding and biologically inspired artificial intelligence.

Jiaqi Wang, Huan Zhao, Zhenyuan Yang et al.

In this paper, we review legal testing methods based on Large Language Models (LLMs), using the OPENAI o1 model as a case study to evaluate the performance of large models in applying legal provisions. We compare current state-of-the-art LLMs, including open-source, closed-source, and legal-specific models trained specifically for the legal domain. Systematic tests are conducted on English and Chinese legal cases, and the results are analyzed in depth. Through systematic testing of legal cases from common law systems and China, this paper explores the strengths and weaknesses of LLMs in understanding and applying legal texts, reasoning through legal issues, and predicting judgments. The experimental results highlight both the potential and limitations of LLMs in legal applications, particularly in terms of challenges related to the interpretation of legal language and the accuracy of legal reasoning. Finally, the paper provides a comprehensive analysis of the advantages and disadvantages of various types of models, offering valuable insights and references for the future application of AI in the legal field.

Zihan Ma, Tian Xia, Kexin Wang et al.

Understanding the intricate mappings between visual stimuli and neural responses is a fundamental challenge in cognitive neuroscience. While current approaches predominantly align images and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) responses in Euclidean space, this geometry often struggles to preserve fine-grained semantic relationships and latent hierarchical structures across visual and neural modalities. To overcome this, we propose HyNeuralMap, a framework that employ hyperbolic Lorentz model to map visual semantics into a shared, cross-subject neural hierarchy. By leveraging the negative curvature of hyperbolic space as an inductive bias, the proposed framework better captures hierarchical semantic organization and cross-subject neural similarities. Specifically, visual and neural embeddings are jointly optimized through hyperbolic geometric alignment, where geodesic distances preserve semantic proximity and hierarchical relationships more effectively than Euclidean embeddings. Experiments demonstrate that HyNeuralMap consistently outperforms state-of-the-art Euclidean baselines in both multi-label semantic prediction and cross-modal retrieval tasks. This confirms hyperbolic geometry's superiority for cross-modal semantic alignment and hierarchical modeling, providing a new avenue for vision-neural representation learning.

Zhenyuan Yang, Zhengliang Liu, Jing Zhang et al.

This study examines the capabilities of advanced Large Language Models (LLMs), particularly the o1 model, in the context of literary analysis. The outputs of these models are compared directly to those produced by graduate-level human participants. By focusing on two Nobel Prize-winning short stories, 'Nine Chapters' by Han Kang, the 2024 laureate, and 'Friendship' by Jon Fosse, the 2023 laureate, the research explores the extent to which AI can engage with complex literary elements such as thematic analysis, intertextuality, cultural and historical contexts, linguistic and structural innovations, and character development. Given the Nobel Prize's prestige and its emphasis on cultural, historical, and linguistic richness, applying LLMs to these works provides a deeper understanding of both human and AI approaches to interpretation. The study uses qualitative and quantitative evaluations of coherence, creativity, and fidelity to the text, revealing the strengths and limitations of AI in tasks typically reserved for human expertise. While LLMs demonstrate strong analytical capabilities, particularly in structured tasks, they often fall short in emotional nuance and coherence, areas where human interpretation excels. This research underscores the potential for human-AI collaboration in the humanities, opening new opportunities in literary studies and beyond.

Tian Xia, Zihan Ma, Xinlong Wang et al.

Decoding images from fMRI often involves mapping brain activity to CLIP's final semantic layer. To capture finer visual details, many approaches add a parameter-intensive VAE-based pipeline. However, these approaches overlook rich object information within CLIP's intermediate layers and contradicts the brain's functionally hierarchical. We introduce BrainMCLIP, which pioneers a parameter-efficient, multi-layer fusion approach guided by human visual system's functional hierarchy, eliminating the need for such a separate VAE pathway. BrainMCLIP aligns fMRI signals from functionally distinct visual areas (low-/high-level) to corresponding intermediate and final CLIP layers, respecting functional hierarchy. We further introduce a Cross-Reconstruction strategy and a novel multi-granularity loss. Results show BrainMCLIP achieves highly competitive performance, particularly excelling on high-level semantic metrics where it matches or surpasses SOTA(state-of-the-art) methods, including those using VAE pipelines. Crucially, it achieves this with substantially fewer parameters, demonstrating a reduction of 71.7\%(Table.\ref{tab:compare_clip_vae}) compared to top VAE-based SOTA methods, by avoiding the VAE pathway. By leveraging intermediate CLIP features, it effectively captures visual details often missed by CLIP-only approaches, striking a compelling balance between semantic accuracy and detail fidelity without requiring a separate VAE pipeline.

Yudan Ren, Xinlong Wang, Kexin Wang et al.

While brain-inspired artificial intelligence(AI) has demonstrated promising results, current understanding of the parallels between artificial neural networks (ANNs) and human brain processing remains limited: (1) unimodal ANN studies fail to capture the brain's inherent multimodal processing capabilities, and (2) multimodal ANN research primarily focuses on high-level model outputs, neglecting the crucial role of individual neurons. To address these limitations, we propose a novel neuron-level analysis framework that investigates the multimodal information processing mechanisms in vision-language models (VLMs) through the lens of human brain activity. Our approach uniquely combines fine-grained artificial neuron (AN) analysis with fMRI-based voxel encoding to examine two architecturally distinct VLMs: CLIP and METER. Our analysis reveals four key findings: (1) ANs successfully predict biological neurons (BNs) activities across multiple functional networks (including language, vision, attention, and default mode), demonstrating shared representational mechanisms; (2) Both ANs and BNs demonstrate functional redundancy through overlapping neural representations, mirroring the brain's fault-tolerant and collaborative information processing mechanisms; (3) ANs exhibit polarity patterns that parallel the BNs, with oppositely activated BNs showing mirrored activation trends across VLM layers, reflecting the complexity and bidirectional nature of neural information processing; (4) The architectures of CLIP and METER drive distinct BNs: CLIP's independent branches show modality-specific specialization, whereas METER's cross-modal design yields unified cross-modal activation, highlighting the architecture's influence on ANN brain-like properties. These results provide compelling evidence for brain-like hierarchical processing in VLMs at the neuronal level.