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Real-world face recognition requires an ability to perceive the unique features of an individual face across multiple, variable images. The primate visual system solves the problem of image invariance using cascades of neurons that convert…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-15 Matthew Q. Hill , Connor J. Parde , Carlos D. Castillo , Y. Ivette Colon , Rajeev Ranjan , Jun-Cheng Chen , Volker Blanz , Alice J. O'Toole

Artificial and natural neural network models are a new toolkit which could be potentially have been used for clarifying of complex brain functions. To attend this goal, such models need to be neurobiologically realistic. However, although…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2022-07-08 Arsenii Onuchin

Deep convolutional neural networks (DCNNs) have attracted much attention recently, and have shown to be able to recognize thousands of object categories in natural image databases. Their architecture is somewhat similar to that of the human…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-09-13 Saeed Reza Kheradpisheh , Masoud Ghodrati , Mohammad Ganjtabesh , Timothée Masquelier

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) are trained on vast amounts of data captured by humans emulating our understanding of the world. However, known as visual illusions, human's perception of reality isn't always faithful to the physical world.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-11-02 Yichi Zhang , Jiayi Pan , Yuchen Zhou , Rui Pan , Joyce Chai

While convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have come to match and exceed human performance in many settings, the tasks these models optimize for are largely constrained to the level of individual objects, such as classification and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Max Gupta , Sunayana Rane , R. Thomas McCoy , Thomas L. Griffiths

Deep learning algorithms demonstrate a surprising ability to learn high-dimensional tasks from limited examples. This is commonly attributed to the depth of neural networks, enabling them to build a hierarchy of abstract, low-dimensional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-04 Francesco Cagnetta , Leonardo Petrini , Umberto M. Tomasini , Alessandro Favero , Matthieu Wyart

While significant advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) have catalyzed progress across various domains, its full potential in understanding visual perception remains underexplored. We propose an artificial neural network dubbed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-27 Ruixing Liang , Xiangyu Zhang , Qiong Li , Lai Wei , Hexin Liu , Avisha Kumar , Kelley M. Kempski Leadingham , Joshua Punnoose , Leibny Paola Garcia , Amir Manbachi

The robust and efficient recognition of visual relations in images is a hallmark of biological vision. We argue that, despite recent progress in visual recognition, modern machine vision algorithms are severely limited in their ability to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-28 Matthew Ricci , Junkyung Kim , Thomas Serre

Despite advancements in artificial intelligence, object recognition models still lag behind in emulating visual information processing in human brains. Recent studies have highlighted the potential of using neural data to mimic brain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Zitong Lu , Yile Wang , Julie D. Golomb

A key challenge in complex visuomotor control is learning abstract representations that are effective for specifying goals, planning, and generalization. To this end, we introduce universal planning networks (UPN). UPNs embed differentiable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-04-05 Aravind Srinivas , Allan Jabri , Pieter Abbeel , Sergey Levine , Chelsea Finn

Partially inspired by features of computation in visual cortex, deep neural networks compute hierarchical representations of their inputs. While these networks have been highly successful in machine learning, it remains unclear to what…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2019-11-20 Jianghong Shi , Eric Shea-Brown , Michael A. Buice

It is widely believed that natural image data exhibits low-dimensional structure despite the high dimensionality of conventional pixel representations. This idea underlies a common intuition for the remarkable success of deep learning in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Phillip Pope , Chen Zhu , Ahmed Abdelkader , Micah Goldblum , Tom Goldstein

The visual system is hierarchically organized to process visual information in successive stages. Neural representations vary drastically across the first stages of visual processing: at the output of the retina, ganglion cell receptive…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2019-01-07 Jack Lindsey , Samuel A. Ocko , Surya Ganguli , Stephane Deny

In this paper, we elucidate how representations in deep neural networks (DNNs) evolve during training. Our focus is on overparameterized learning settings where the training continues much after the trained DNN starts to perfectly fit its…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Yuval Sharon , Yehuda Dar

Task-based modeling with recurrent neural networks (RNNs) has emerged as a popular way to infer the computational function of different brain regions. These models are quantitatively assessed by comparing the low-dimensional neural…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2019-12-06 Niru Maheswaranathan , Alex H. Williams , Matthew D. Golub , Surya Ganguli , David Sussillo

Deep learning architectures based on convolutional neural networks tend to rely on continuous, smooth features. While this characteristics provides significant robustness and proves useful in many real-world tasks, it is strikingly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Zuzanna Buchnajzer , Kacper Dobek , Stanisław Hapke , Daniel Jankowski , Krzysztof Krawiec

Deep neural networks and brains both learn and share superficial similarities: processing nodes are likened to neurons and adjustable weights are likened to modifiable synapses. But can a unified theoretical framework be found to underlie…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-09-29 Arsham Ghavasieh , Meritxell Vila-Minana , Akanksha Khurd , John Beggs , Gerardo Ortiz , Santo Fortunato

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have so far been the de-facto model for visual data. Recent work has shown that (Vision) Transformer models (ViT) can achieve comparable or even superior performance on image classification tasks. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-07 Maithra Raghu , Thomas Unterthiner , Simon Kornblith , Chiyuan Zhang , Alexey Dosovitskiy

This article questions the widespread assumption that there are brain representations that will always remain unconscious in the sense of being inaccessible to individual awareness under any circumstances. This implies that some part of the…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2022-02-23 Birgitta Dresp-Langley

Biological intelligence is remarkable in its ability to produce complex behaviour in many diverse situations through data efficient, generalisable and transferable skill acquisition. It is believed that learning "good" sensory…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2022-03-18 Irina Higgins , Sébastien Racanière , Danilo Rezende