arXiv AI
2d ago

Latent Prediction Yields Cross-Subject Alignable Representations in Sensory-Evoked fMRI

The study investigates whether self‑supervised learning can produce useful representations from fMRI data alone. Using a joint embedding predictive architecture, participant‑specific encoders are trained without access to stimulus images or derived representations. The resulting embeddings perform competitively on brain captioning, image reconstruction, and cross‑participant generalization, and can be aligned unsupervised across participants, enabling a decoding head trained on one subject to work on another with minimal loss of performance.

By Serwan Jassim, Victoria Bosch, Daniel Anthes, Elia Bruni, Tim Kietzmann
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jun 3

Coarse-to-fine Hierarchical Architecture with Sequential Mamba for Brain Reconstruction

Understanding the relationship between deep visual representations and the human visual system is a fundamental challenge in computational neuroscience. While modern vision models achieve strong performance in image recognition, their correspondence with the hierarchical organization of the human visual cortex remains an open question.

arXiv Computer Vision
Oct 19

Alignment of visual brain encoding models with individual perceptual similarity judgments

The study explores how to fine‑tune visual brain encoding models so that their internal representations better match individual human perceptual similarity judgments. Using similarity data from 100 images collected from eight participants in the Natural Scenes Dataset, the authors adapted a generic similarity model (DreamSim) to create personalized perceptual similarity models for each subject. They then fine‑tuned each participant’s baseline encoder with either generic or personalized similarity information, finding that models trained with personalized judgments were most aligned with human perceptual similarity and preserved inter‑subject correlations of those judgments.

By Daniel Chong, Haomiao Chen, Keith W Jamison, Raja Marjieh, Ilia Sucholutsky, Nori Jacoby, Amy Kuceyeski