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Jenelle Feather

6 accepted papers

2025

Discriminating image representations with principal distortions

ICLR 2025poster

Image representations (artificial or biological) are often compared in terms of their global geometric structure; however, representations with similar global structure can have strikingly different local geometries. Here, we propose a framework for comparing a set of image representations in terms…

Cited by 1SourcePDFScholar
2024

Contrastive-Equivariant Self-Supervised Learning Improves Alignment with Primate Visual Area IT

NeurIPS 2024poster

Models trained with self-supervised learning objectives have recently matched or surpassed models trained with traditional supervised object recognition in their ability to predict neural responses of object-selective neurons in the primate visual system. A self-supervised learning objective is argu…

Cited by 1SourcePDFScholar
2023

A Spectral Theory of Neural Prediction and Alignment

NeurIPS 2023spotlight

The representations of neural networks are often compared to those of biological systems by performing regression between the neural network responses and those measured from biological systems. Many different state-of-the-art deep neural networks yield similar neural predictions, but it remains unc…

2021

Neural Population Geometry Reveals the Role of Stochasticity in Robust Perception

NeurIPS 2021poster

Adversarial examples are often cited by neuroscientists and machine learning researchers as an example of how computational models diverge from biological sensory systems. Recent work has proposed adding biologically-inspired components to visual neural networks as a way to improve their adversarial…

2019

Metamers of neural networks reveal divergence from human perceptual systems

NeurIPS 2019poster

Deep neural networks have been embraced as models of sensory systems, instantiating representational transformations that appear to resemble those in the visual and auditory systems. To more thoroughly investigate their similarity to biological systems, we synthesized model metamers – stimuli that p…

2019

Untangling in Invariant Speech Recognition

NeurIPS 2019poster

Encouraged by the success of deep convolutional neural networks on a variety of visual tasks, much theoretical and experimental work has been aimed at understanding and interpreting how vision networks operate. At the same time, deep neural networks have also achieved impressive performance in audi…