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A new prior is proposed for learning representations of high-level concepts of the kind we manipulate with language. This prior can be combined with other priors in order to help disentangling abstract factors from each other. It is…
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While a great deal is known about the way the retina processes simple stimuli, our understanding of how the retina processes natural stimuli is still limited. Here we highlight some of the challenges that remain to be addressed to…
It is often argued that one goal of explaining automated decision systems (ADS) is to facilitate positive perceptions (e.g., fairness or trustworthiness) of users towards such systems. This viewpoint, however, makes the implicit assumption…
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While olfaction is central to how animals perceive the world, this rich chemical sensory modality remains largely inaccessible to machines. One key bottleneck is the lack of diverse, multimodal olfactory training data collected in natural…
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In this paper we consider the question whether a distributed network of sensors and data processors can form "perceptions" based on the sensory data. Because sensory data can have exponentially many explanations, the use of a central data…
The connection between active perception and the limits of performance provide a path to understanding naturalistic behavior. We can take a comparative cognitive modeling perspective to understand the limits of this performance and the…
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Silbert and Thomas (2013) showed that failures of decisional separability are not, in general, identifiable in fully parameterized $2 \times 2$ Gaussian GRT models. A recent extension of $2 \times 2$ GRT models (GRTwIND) was developed to…
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