Saeed Salehi

2 accepted papers

2026

Formalizing the Binding Problem

Lianghuan Huang, Yihao Li, Saeed Salehi, Yingshan Chang, Ansh Soni, Konrad Kording

ICML 2026poster

Representations of the world, arguably, contain information about features (e.g. something is blue, something is a circle) but also information about which features are part of the same object (e.g. the circle is blue), which we call binding information. Any system with the ability to understand sce…

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2025

Does Object Binding Naturally Emerge in Large Pretrained Vision Transformers?

Yihao Li, Saeed Salehi, Lyle Ungar, Konrad Kording

NeurIPS 2025spotlight

Object binding, the brain’s ability to bind the many features that collectively represent an object into a coherent whole, is central to human cognition. It groups low-level perceptual features into high‑level object representations, stores those objects efficiently and compositionally in memory, an…

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