Align, Then Adapt: Few-Shot fMRI Visual Reconstruction For New Subjects
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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.
arXiv:2606. 15989v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Aligning neural activity across subjects offers the promise of discovering shared computational principles and generalizable decoders.
arXiv:2606. 04772v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Understanding the relationship between deep visual representations and the human visual system is a fundamental challenge in computational neuroscience.
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.
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.
arXiv:2601.21948v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Neural visual decoding is a central problem in brain-computer interface research, aiming to reconstruct human visual perception and to elucidate th...