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Kelli Restivo

4 accepted papers

2024

Most discriminative stimuli for functional cell type clustering

ICLR 2024poster

Identifying cell types and understanding their functional properties is crucial for unraveling the mechanisms underlying perception and cognition. In the retina, functional types can be identified by carefully selected stimuli, but this requires expert domain knowledge and biases the procedure towar…

2023

Energy Guided Diffusion for Generating Neurally Exciting Images

NeurIPS 2023poster

In recent years, most exciting inputs (MEIs) synthesized from encoding models of neuronal activity have become an established method for studying tuning properties of biological and artificial visual systems. However, as we move up the visual hierarchy, the complexity of neuronal computations in…

2023

Taking the neural sampling code very seriously: A data-driven approach for evaluating generative models of the visual system

NeurIPS 2023poster

Prevailing theories of perception hypothesize that the brain implements perception via Bayesian inference in a generative model of the world. One prominent theory, the Neural Sampling Code (NSC), posits that neuronal responses to a stimulus represent samples from the posterior distribution over late…

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2021

Towards robust vision by multi-task learning on monkey visual cortex

NeurIPS 2021poster

Deep neural networks set the state-of-the-art across many tasks in computer vision, but their generalization ability to simple image distortions is surprisingly fragile. In contrast, the mammalian visual system is robust to a wide range of perturbations. Recent work suggests that this generalization…