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Joel Dapello

6 accepted papers

2025

scGeneScope: A Treatment-Matched Single Cell Imaging and Transcriptomics Dataset and Benchmark for Treatment Response Modeling

NeurIPS 2025poster

Understanding cellular responses to chemical interventions is critical to the discovery of effective therapeutics. Because individual biological techniques often measure only one axis of cellular response at a time, high-quality multimodal datasets are needed to unlock a holistic understanding of ho…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2023

Aligning Model and Macaque Inferior Temporal Cortex Representations Improves Model-to-Human Behavioral Alignment and Adversarial Robustness

ICLR 2023top-5%

While some state-of-the-art artificial neural network systems in computer vision are strikingly accurate models of the corresponding primate visual processing, there are still many discrepancies between these models and the behavior of primates on object recognition tasks. Many current models suffer…

Cited by 34SourcePDFScholar
2022

Adversarially trained neural representations are already as robust as biological neural representations

ICML 2022oral

Visual systems of primates are the gold standard of robust perception. There is thus a general belief that mimicking the neural representations that underlie those systems will yield artificial visual systems that are adversarially robust. In this work, we develop a method for performing adversarial…

Cited by 30SourcePDFScholar
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…

2020

Simulating a Primary Visual Cortex at the Front of CNNs Improves Robustness to Image Perturbations

NeurIPS 2020spotlight

Current state-of-the-art object recognition models are largely based on convolutional neural network (CNN) architectures, which are loosely inspired by the primate visual system. However, these CNNs can be fooled by imperceptibly small, explicitly crafted perturbations, and struggle to recognize obj…

2018

On the Information Bottleneck Theory of Deep Learning

ICLR 2018poster

The practical successes of deep neural networks have not been matched by theoretical progress that satisfyingly explains their behavior. In this work, we study the information bottleneck (IB) theory of deep learning, which makes three specific claims: first, that deep networks undergo two distinct p…