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Understanding how deep learning models represent data is currently difficult due to the limited number of methodologies available. This paper demonstrates a versatile and novel visualisation tool for determining the axis alignment of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-21 George Bird

It is now a standard for neural network representations to be trained on large, publicly available datasets, and used for new problems. The reasons for why neural network representations have been so successful for transfer, however, are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Ehsan Imani , Wei Hu , Martha White

This article proposes a formal rapprochement between cognitive load theory and embodied cognition by reconceptualizing psychological representations as dynamic multiscale attractors within a temporal-hierarchical prediction architecture.…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2026-05-25 David C. Gibson , Mary Elizabeth Azukas , Meryem Yilmaz Soylu

The extent to which different biological and artificial neural systems rely on equivalent internal representations to support similar tasks remains a central question in neuroscience and machine learning. Prior work typically compares…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Jialin Wu , Shreya Saha , Yiqing Bo , Meenakshi Khosla

Neural systems, artificial and biological, show similar representations of inputs when optimized to perform similar tasks. In visual systems optimized for tasks similar to object recognition, we propose that representation similarities…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2023-12-15 Tahereh Toosi

In this project we trained a neural network to perform specific interactions between a robot and objects in the environment, through imitation learning. In particular, we tackle the task of moving the robot to a fixed pose with respect to a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-09-27 Giorgia Adorni , Elia Cereda

Embodied learning for object-centric robotic manipulation is a rapidly developing and challenging area in embodied AI. It is crucial for advancing next-generation intelligent robots and has garnered significant interest recently. Unlike…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-01-15 Ying Zheng , Lei Yao , Yuejiao Su , Yi Zhang , Yi Wang , Sicheng Zhao , Yiyi Zhang , Lap-Pui Chau

A common assumption about neural networks is that they can learn an appropriate internal representations on their own, see e.g. end-to-end learning. In this work we challenge this assumption. We consider two simple tasks and show that the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-19 Krisztian Buza

Humans can effortlessly describe what they see, yet establishing a shared representational format between vision and language remains a significant challenge. Emerging evidence suggests that human brain representations in both vision and…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-07-30 Katerina Marie Simkova , Adrien Doerig , Clayton Hickey , Ian Charest

Animals (especially humans) have an amazing ability to learn new tasks quickly, and switch between them flexibly. How brains support this ability is largely unknown, both neuroscientifically and algorithmically. One reasonable supposition…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-06-23 Kevin T. Feigelis , Daniel L. K. Yamins

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

Understanding the operation of biological and artificial networks remains a difficult and important challenge. To identify general principles, researchers are increasingly interested in surveying large collections of networks that are…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-01-14 Alex H. Williams , Erin Kunz , Simon Kornblith , Scott W. Linderman

Humans can perceive and reason about spatial relationships from sequential visual observations, such as egocentric video streams. However, how pretrained models acquire such abilities, especially high-level reasoning, remains unclear. This…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-04-18 Baining Zhao , Ziyou Wang , Jianjie Fang , Chen Gao , Fanhang Man , Jinqiang Cui , Xin Wang , Xinlei Chen , Yong Li , Wenwu Zhu

In this paper, we present a new kind of learning implementation to recognize the patterns using the concept of Mirroring Neural Network (MNN) which can extract information from distinct sensory input patterns and perform pattern recognition…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2008-12-16 Dasika Ratna Deepthi , K. Eswaran

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

The superposition hypothesis states that single neurons may participate in representing multiple features in order for the neural network to represent more features than it has neurons. In neuroscience and AI, representational alignment…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-14 André Longon , David Klindt , Meenakshi Khosla

Despite the success of a number of recent techniques for visual self-supervised deep learning, there has been limited investigation into the representations that are ultimately learned. By leveraging recent advances in the comparison of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-06 Tom George Grigg , Dan Busbridge , Jason Ramapuram , Russ Webb

Scientists have traditionally limited the mechanisms of social cognition to one brain, but recent approaches claim that interaction also realizes cognitive work. Experiments under constrained virtual settings revealed that interaction…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2014-01-17 Tom Froese , Hiroyuki Iizuka , Takashi Ikegami

The ability to predict upcoming events has been hypothesized to comprise a key aspect of natural and machine cognition. This is supported by trends in deep reinforcement learning (RL), where self-supervised auxiliary objectives such as…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Ching Fang , Kimberly L Stachenfeld

Spatial reasoning in partially observable environments has often been approached through passive predictive models, yet theories of embodied cognition suggest that genuinely useful representations arise only when perception is tightly…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Li Jin , Liu Jia