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We propose a set of precise criteria for saying a neural net learns and uses a "world model." The goal is to give an operational meaning to terms that are often used informally, in order to provide a common language for experimental…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Kenneth Li , Fernanda Viégas , Martin Wattenberg

Driving in the dynamic, multi-agent, and complex urban environment is a difficult task requiring a complex decision policy. The learning of such a policy requires a state representation that can encode the entire environment. Mid-level…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-03-03 Eshagh Kargar , Ville Kyrki

Visualization refers to our ability to create an image in our head based on the text we read or the words we hear. It is one of the many skills that makes reading comprehension possible. Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) are an excellent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-13 Ignazio Gallo , Shah Nawaz , Alessandro Calefati , Riccardo La Grassa , Nicola Landro

Representations are internal models of the environment that can provide guidance to a behaving agent, even in the absence of sensory information. It is not clear how representations are developed and whether or not they are necessary or…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2013-08-07 Lars Marstaller , Arend Hintze , Christoph Adami

Implicit Neural Representations (INRs) are powerful to parameterize continuous signals in computer vision. However, almost all INRs methods are limited to low-level tasks, e.g., image/video compression, super-resolution, and image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-04 Yiran Song , Qianyu Zhou , Lizhuang Ma

Recurrent neural networks (RNNs) are widely used throughout neuroscience as models of local neural activity. Many properties of single RNNs are well characterized theoretically, but experimental neuroscience has moved in the direction of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Leo Kozachkov , Michaela Ennis , Jean-Jacques Slotine

Nowadays, the Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have achieved impressive performance on many computer vision related tasks, such as object detection, image recognition, image retrieval, etc. These achievements benefit from the CNNs…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-04 Zhuwei Qin , Fuxun Yu , Chenchen Liu , Xiang Chen

Neural network interpretability is a vital component for applications across a wide variety of domains. In such cases it is often useful to analyze a network which has already been trained for its specific purpose. In this work, we develop…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-19 Lawrence Phillips , Garrett Goh , Nathan Hodas

In this work, we study the representation space of contextualized embeddings and gain insight into the hidden topology of large language models. We show there exists a network of latent states that summarize linguistic properties of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-06 Yao Fu , Mirella Lapata

Analysis and manipulation of trained neural networks is a challenging and important problem. We propose a symbolic representation for piecewise-linear neural networks and discuss its efficient computation. With this representation, one can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-21 Matthew Sotoudeh , Aditya V. Thakur

Recent experiments in neuroscience reveal that task-relevant variables are often encoded in approximately orthogonal subspaces of neural population activity. These disentangled, or abstract, representations have been observed in multiple…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2026-03-16 Bin Wang , W. Jeffrey Johnston , Stefano Fusi

The efficiency of recurrent neural networks (RNNs) in dealing with sequential data has long been established. However, unlike deep, and convolution networks where we can attribute the recognition of a certain feature to every layer, it is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-15 Stefan Horoi , Guillaume Lajoie , Guy Wolf

Understanding internal feature representations of deep neural networks (DNNs) is a fundamental step toward model interpretability. Inspired by neuroscience methods that probe biological neurons using visual stimuli, recent deep learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Hongbo Zhu , Angelo Cangelosi

Motivated by the human way of memorizing images we introduce their functional representation, where an image is represented by a neural network. For this purpose, we construct a hypernetwork which takes an image and returns weights to the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-26 Sylwester Klocek , Łukasz Maziarka , Maciej Wołczyk , Jacek Tabor , Jakub Nowak , Marek Śmieja

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have demonstrated impressive performance on a wide array of tasks, but they are usually considered opaque since internal structure and learned parameters are not interpretable. In this paper, we re-examine the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-21 Yinpeng Dong , Hang Su , Jun Zhu , Fan Bao

We show that deep neural networks, including transformers and RNNs, pretrained as usual on next-token prediction, intrinsically discover and represent beliefs over 'quantum' and 'post-quantum' low-dimensional generative models of their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Paul M. Riechers , Thomas J. Elliott , Adam S. Shai

There exist many problem domains where the interpretability of neural network models is essential for deployment. Here we introduce a recurrent architecture composed of input-switched affine transformations - in other words an RNN without…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-06-14 Jakob N. Foerster , Justin Gilmer , Jan Chorowski , Jascha Sohl-Dickstein , David Sussillo

There is strong interest in developing mathematical methods that can be used to understand complex neural networks used in image analysis. In this paper, we introduce techniques from Linear Algebra to model neural network layers as maps…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Rebecca Pattichis , Marios S. Pattichis

The extensive adoption of Deep Neural Networks has led to their increased utilization in challenging scientific visualization tasks. Recent advancements in building compressed data models using implicit neural representations have shown…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Abhay Kumar Dwivedi , Shanu Saklani , Soumya Dutta

This paper investigates how working of Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) can be explained through visualization in the context of machine perception of autonomous vehicles. We visualize what type of features are extracted in different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-16 Abhishek Mukhopadhyay , Imon Mukherjee , Pradipta Biswas