The Quest for an Integrated Set of Neural Mechanisms Underlying Object Recognition in Primates

K Kar, JJ DiCarlo - Annual Review of Vision Science, 2024 - annualreviews.org
Inferences made about objects via vision, such as rapid and accurate categorization, are
core to primate cognition despite the algorithmic challenge posed by varying viewpoints and …

Hierarchical VAEs provide a normative account of motion processing in the primate brain

H Vafaii, J Yates, D Butts - Advances in Neural Information …, 2024 - proceedings.neurips.cc
The relationship between perception and inference, as postulated by Helmholtz in the 19th
century, is paralleled in modern machine learning by generative models like Variational …

[HTML][HTML] Disentangling Fact from Grid Cell Fiction in Trained Deep Path Integrators

R Schaeffer, M Khona, S Koyejo, IR Fiete - ArXiv, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Work on deep learning-based models of grid cells suggests that grid cells generically and
robustly arise from optimizing networks to path integrate, ie, track one's spatial position by …