The Platonic brain bridge hypothesis: human brain networks as an architectural prior for omni models
Read the original on arXiv Machine Learning →The paper introduces the Platonic brain bridge hypothesis, asserting that omni models—capable of jointly processing video, audio, and text—naturally develop brain‑like representations, and that this relationship is bidirectional. Experiments show that seven omni models exhibit stable brain‑like representations across participants, and their internal states outperform others on the Algonauts 2025 out‑of‑distribution leaderboard. Building on this, the authors propose three brain‑to‑model methods: Brain‑MoE assigns a brain‑pretrained expert to each of seven cortical networks, improving benchmark accuracy; Brain‑AVQA generates video‑based questions using the most responsive brain network, outperforming shuffled mappings; and Brain‑Scope uses sparse autoencoders to pinpoint a small subset of networks whose removal weakens brain prediction, demonstrating that human brain networks can serve as a practical architectural prior for omni models.
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