Publications

2025

Taxonomic Reasoning for Rare Arthropods: Combining Dense Image Captioning and RAG for Interpretable Classification. Nathaniel Lesperance, Sujeevan Ratnasingham, Graham W. Taylor. URL

Acceleration and demographic rates behind bird decline in North America. Francois Leroy, Marta A Jarzyna, Petr Keil. EcoEvoRxiv

Pairwise Matching of Intermediate Representations for Fine-grained Explainability. Lauren Shrack, Timm Haucke, Antoine Salaün, Arjun Subramonian, Sara Beery. Arxiv

Align and Distill: Unifying and Improving Domain Adaptive Object Detection. Justin Kay, Timm Haucke, Suzanne Stathatos, Siqi Deng, Pietro Perona, Sara Beery, Grant Van Horn.  Arxiv

Personalized Representation from Personalized Generation. Shobhita Sundaram, Julia Chae, Yonglong Tian, Sara Beery, Phillip Isola. Arxiv

Open-Insect: Benchmarking Open-Set Recognition of Novel Species in Biodiversity Monitoring. Yuyan Chen, Nico Lang, B. Christian Schmidt, Aditya Jain, Yves Basset, Sara Beery, Maxim Larrivee, David Rolnick. Arxiv

Harnessing artificial intelligence to fill global shortfalls in biodiversity knowledge. Laura J. Pollock, Justin Kitzes, Sara Beery, Kaitlyn M. Gaynor, Marta A. Jarzyna, Oisin Max Aodha, Bernd Meyer, David Rolnick, Graham W. Taylor, Devis Tuia, Tanya Berger-Wolf. Nature

New frontiers in AI for biodiversity research and conservation with multimodal language models. Zhongqi Miao, Yuanhan Zhang, Zalan Fabian, Andres Hernandez Celis, Sara Beery, Chunyuan Li, Ziwei Liu, Amrita Gupta, Md Nasir, Wanhua Li, Jason Holmberg, Meredith Palmer, Kaitlyn Gaynor, Eva Borges, Lisa Strempel, Rahul Dodhia, Juan Lavista Ferres. EcoEvoRxiv DOI

Galileo: Learning Global & Local Features of Many Remote Sensing Modalities. [Juried Poster]. Gabriel Tseng, Anthony Fuller, Marlena Reil, Henry Herzog, Patrick Beukema, Favyen Bastani, James Green, Evan Shelhamer, Hannah Kerner, David Rolnick. July 2025. ICML 2025. ICML Version, Arxiv DOI

Feedforward Few-shot Species Range Estimation. Christian Lange, Max Hamilton, Elijah Cole, Alexander Shepard, Samuel Heinrich, Angela Zhu, Subhransu Maji, Grant Horn, Oisin Mac Aodha. July 2025. ICML 2025. ICML Version, Arxiv DOI.

A multi-modal dataset for insect biodiversity with imagery and DNA at the trap and individual level. [Preprint]. Johanna Orsholm, John Quinto, Hannu Autto, Gaia Banelyte, Nicolas Chazot, Jeremy deWaard, Stephanie deWaard, Arielle Farrell, Brendan Furneaux, Bess Hardwick, Nao Ito, Amlan Kar, Oula Kalttopää, Deirdre Kerdraon, Erik Kristensen, Jaclyn McKeown, Tommi Mononen, Ellen Nein, Hanna Rogers, Tomas Roslin, Paula Schmitz, Jayme Sones, Maija Sujala, Amy Thompson, Evgeny V. Zakharov, Iuliia Zarubiieva, Akshita Gupta, Scott C. Lowe, Graham W. Taylor. Arxiv DOI

Integrating AI models into ecological research workflows: The case of terrestrial bioacoustics. [In press]. Kitzes, J., Chronister, L., Czarnecki, C., Fiss, C., Freeland-Haynes, L., Goodman, B.D., Lapp, S., Lyon, R.P., Nossan, H., Rhinehart, T.A., Ruiz-Guzman, S., Syunkova, A., & Viotti, L. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 

WildLive: Near Real-time Visual Wildlife Tracking onboard UAVs. NN Dat, T Richardson, M Watson, K Meier, J Kline, S Reid, G Maalouf, D Hine, M Mirmehdi, T Burghardt. 38th IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshop on Computer Vision for Animal Behavior Tracking and Modeling (CV4Animals), June 2025. DOI

Great Ape Work on Background. O Brookes, M Kukushkin, M Mirmehdi, C Stephens, P Dieguez, TC Hicks, S Jones, K Lee, MS McCarthy, A Meier, E Normand, EG Wessling, RM Wittig, K Langergraber, K Zuberbuehler, L Boesch, T Schmid, M Arandjelovic, H Kuehl, T Burghardt. The PanAf-FGBG Dataset: Understanding the Impact of Backgrounds in Wildlife Behaviour Recognition. 38th IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), pp. 5433-5443, June 2025. (CVPR 2025 Best Paper Award Candidate), (CVF Version), (Arxiv PDF), (Supplementary), (Website). 

2024

Application-Driven Innovation in Machine Learning. Rolnick, D.; Aspuru-Guzik, A.; Beery, S.; Dilkina, B.; Donti, P. L.; Ghassemi, M.; Kerner, H.; Monteleoni, C.; Rolf, E.; Tambe, M.; and White, A. March 2024. arXiv:2403.17381 DOI

2. Wrensford, K.C., Angert, A., Gaynor, K.M. Linking individual animal behavior to species range shifts under climate change. In preparation.

3. Pollock, L., Beery, S., Berger-Wolf, T., Gaynor, K.M., Jarzyna, M., Mac Aodha, O., Rolnick, D., Taylor, G., Tuia, D. & Kitzes, J. Harnessing AI to fill global biodiversity shortfalls. In preparation.

2023

A landmark environmental law looks ahead. Fischman, R. L.; Ruhl, J. B.; Forester, B. R.; Lama, T. M.; Kardos, M.; Rojas, G. A.; Robinson, N. A.; Shirey, P. D.; Lamberti, G. A.; Ando, A. W.; Palumbi, S.; Wara, M.; Schwartz, M. W.; Williamson, M. A.; Berger-Wolf, T.; Beery, S.; Rolnick, D.; Kitzes, J.; Thau, D.; Tuia, D.; Rubenstein, D.; Hickman, C. R.; Thorstenson, J.; Kaebnick, G. E.; Collins, J. P.; Jayaram, A.; Deleuil, T.; and Zhao, Y. Science, 382(6677): 1348–1355. December 2023. Publisher: American Association for the Advancement of Science. DOI