arXiv Machine Learning

Learning Coherent Representations: A Topological Approach to Interpretability

arXiv:2606. 02841v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Deep neural networks learn representations where individual features often lack interpretable meaning; a single neuron may activate for scattered, unrelated inputs.

arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 14

Geometric-to-Semantic Spherical Transfer Learning for Cortical Sulci Labeling

The paper introduces a Geometric-to-Semantic Spherical Transfer Learning framework for labeling cortical sulci on brain surfaces. It first pre‑trains a spherical encoder on ~30,000 unlabeled UK Biobank subjects using only curvature and depth, then injects sulcal fundi lines as a soft‑initialized Topological Prior Injector to bridge the geometric‑semantic gap. Experiments show the method surpasses fully supervised baselines, achieving a mean Dice score of 0.77 and delivering the largest gains on variable and tertiary sulci.

By Saeb Tounsi, Jo\"el Chavas, Pietro Gori, Vincent Frouin, Denis Rivi\`ere, Jean-Fran\c{c}ois Mangin