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A representation is supposed universal if it encodes any element of the visual world (e.g., objects, scenes) in any configuration (e.g., scale, context). While not expecting pure universal representations, the goal in the literature is to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-05 Youssef Tamaazousti , Hervé Le Borgne , Céline Hudelot , Mohamed El Amine Seddik , Mohamed Tamaazousti

We propose a fair machine learning algorithm to model interpretable differences between observed and desired human decision-making, with the latter aimed at reducing disparity in a downstream outcome impacted by the human decision. Prior…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Pavan Ravishankar , Rushabh Shah , Daniel B. Neill

Inspired by the brain, deep neural networks (DNN) are thought to learn abstract representations through their hierarchical architecture. However, at present, how this happens is not well understood. Here, we demonstrate that DNN learn…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-02-16 Andrew J. R. Simpson

Recent research on learnable neural representations has been widely adopted in the field of 3D scene reconstruction and neural rendering applications. However, traditional feature grid representations often suffer from substantial memory…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Rui Su , Honghao Dong , Haojie Jin , Yisong Chen , Guoping Wang , Sheng Li

Recent work suggests that representations learned by adversarially robust networks are more human perceptually-aligned than non-robust networks via image manipulations. Despite appearing closer to human visual perception, it is unclear if…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-07 Anne Harrington , Arturo Deza

Deep learning networks have been trained to recognize speech, caption photographs and translate text between languages at high levels of performance. Although applications of deep learning networks to real world problems have become…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2020-02-13 Terrence J. Sejnowski

In this paper we consider the limiting case of neural networks (NNs) architectures when the number of neurons in each hidden layer and the number of hidden layers tend to infinity thus forming a continuum, and we derive approximation errors…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Christophe Prieur , Mircea Lazar , Bogdan Robu

Neural networks based on metric recognition methods have a strictly determined architecture. Number of neurons, connections, as well as weights and thresholds values are calculated analytically, based on the initial conditions of tasks:…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Polad Geidarov

Neural language models learn word representations that capture rich linguistic and conceptual information. Here we investigate the embeddings learned by neural machine translation models. We show that translation-based embeddings outperform…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2014-11-14 Felix Hill , KyungHyun Cho , Sebastien Jean , Coline Devin , Yoshua Bengio

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

Recent advances in machine learning leverage massive datasets of unlabeled images from the web to learn general-purpose image representations for tasks from image classification to face recognition. But do unsupervised computer vision…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2021-01-28 Ryan Steed , Aylin Caliskan

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are commonly thought to recognise objects by learning increasingly complex representations of object shapes. Some recent studies suggest a more important role of image textures. We here put these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-11 Robert Geirhos , Patricia Rubisch , Claudio Michaelis , Matthias Bethge , Felix A. Wichmann , Wieland Brendel

Biological and artificial information processing systems form representations of the world that they can use to categorize, reason, plan, navigate, and make decisions. How can we measure the similarity between the representations formed by…

The brain transforms visual inputs into high-dimensional cortical representations that support diverse cognitive and behavioral goals. Characterizing how this information is organized and routed across the human brain is essential for…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2026-05-15 Pablo Marcos-Manchón , Lluís Fuentemilla

Numerosity perception is foundational to mathematical learning, but its computational bases are strongly debated. Some investigators argue that humans are endowed with a specialized system supporting numerical representation; others argue…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-17 Alberto Testolin , Serena Dolfi , Mathijs Rochus , Marco Zorzi

We show that the representation of an image in a deep neural network (DNN) can be manipulated to mimic those of other natural images, with only minor, imperceptible perturbations to the original image. Previous methods for generating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-03-07 Sara Sabour , Yanshuai Cao , Fartash Faghri , David J. Fleet

To make sense of the world our brains must analyze high-dimensional datasets streamed by our sensory organs. Because such analysis begins with dimensionality reduction, modelling early sensory processing requires biologically plausible…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2016-01-27 Cengiz Pehlevan , Dmitri B. Chklovskii

Deep learning has been widely applied and brought breakthroughs in speech recognition, computer vision, and many other domains. The involved deep neural network architectures and computational issues have been well studied in machine…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-07-23 Ding-Xuan Zhou

In machine learning, there is a long history of trying to build neural networks that can learn from fewer example data by baking in strong geometric priors. However, it is not always clear a priori what geometric constraints are appropriate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-06 Jacob A. Zavatone-Veth , Sheng Yang , Julian A. Rubinfien , Cengiz Pehlevan

This paper presents abstract art created by neural networks and broadly recognizable across various computer vision systems. The existence of abstract forms that trigger specific labels independent of neural architecture or training set…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-10 Tom White