Kia Ghods

cs + math @ princeton

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i am a junior at princeton studying cs + math.

currently

> language modeling, dynamical systems, spectral transformers @ hazan minregret lab
> $\nabla$ gradient
> co-pres. of our acm chapter

previously

> cocosci lab, advised by profs. cohen and griffiths
> interned at hillspire
> interned at astralis

contact: [x] at princeton dot edu where [x] = kia.ghods

latest posts

Feb 12, 2026 Information Theory
Jun 25, 2025 Equivariance and Symmetry behind Neural Networks

selected publications

  1. Continuous Diffusion Transformers for Designing Synthetic Regulatory Elements
    Jonathan Liu* and Kia Ghods*
    Generative AI in Genomics (Gen^2) Workshop at ICLR, 2026
    arXiv
  2. Visual serial processing deficits explain divergences in human and VLM reasoning
    Nicholas Budny*, Kia Ghods*, Declan Campbell*, Raja Marjieh, Amogh Joshi, Sreejan Kumar, Jonathan D. Cohen^, Taylor W. Webb^, and Thomas L. Griffiths^
    Under Review, 2025
    arXiv
  3. Understanding the Limits of Vision Language Models Through the Lens of the Binding Problem
    Declan Campbell, Sunayana Rane, Tyler Giallanza, Nicolò De Sabbata, Kia Ghods, Amogh Joshi, Alexander Ku, Steven M. Frankland, Thomas L. Griffiths^, Jonathan D. Cohen^, and Taylor Webb^
    NeurIPS, 2024
    arXiv