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Khue Tran

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

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High-Fidelity Tuning of Olfactory Mixture Distances in the Perceptual Space of Smell Through a Community Effort

Vahid Satarifard, Laura Sisson, Yikun Han, Pedro Ilídio, Matej Hladiš, Maxence Lalis, Xuebo Song, Tiffany Yang, Wenjie Yin, Aharon Ravia, Xingyu Zheng, Gaia Andreoletti, Jacob W. Albrecht, Robert Pellegrino, Wang Ze-hua, , Alexei A. Koulakov

The paper presents an ensemble model that improves predictions of perceptual similarity between odor mixtures using a curated dataset and collaborative challenge results.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · Aug 4, 2026Peer-reviewedNeuroscience

Grounding olfactory perception in language: Benchmarks and models for generating natural language odor descriptions

Cyrille Mascart, Khue Tran, Khristina V. Samoilova, Liam Thomas Storan, Tingkai Liu, Alexei A. Koulakov

ODIEU pairs human odor texts for 10,124 molecules with olfaction-tuned Sentence-BERT evaluators; CIRANO, a frozen GPT-2 with a molecular prefix, generates descriptions approaching human agreement.

bioRxiv · Mar 5, 2026 · PreprintAnimal Behavior & Cognition✦ In-depth digest

Weight Transfer in the Reinforcement Learning Model of Songbird Acquisition

Khue Tran, Alexei A. Koulakov

This paper presents a computational model of songbird vocal learning that combines reinforcement learning and Hebbian plasticity to simulate song acquisition and weight transfer in neural circuits.

Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers (ACSSC) · Oct 27, 2024Peer-reviewedNeuroscience

smBEVO: A computer vision approach to rapid baseline correction of single-molecule time series

Khue Tran, Argha Bandyopadhyay, Marcel P Goldschen-Ohm

The paper introduces smBEVO, a computer vision method for efficiently correcting baseline drift in single-molecule time series.

bioRxiv · Nov 12, 2021 · PreprintBioinformatics