Summary of What Representational Similarity Measures Imply About Decodable Information, by Sarah E. Harvey et al.
What Representational Similarity Measures Imply about Decodable Information
by Sarah E. Harvey, David Lipshutz, Alex H. Williams
First submitted to arxiv on: 12 Nov 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The paper proposes a novel approach to understanding neural responses by building regression models or “decoders” that reconstruct features of the stimulus from neural responses. It shows that popular neural network similarity measures can be equivalently motivated from a decoding perspective, highlighting the average alignment between optimal linear readouts across a distribution of decoding tasks. The study also demonstrates that Procrustes shape distance upper bounds the distance between optimal linear readouts and provides novel interpretations of existing measures. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary The paper is about how our brains work when we process information from our senses. It’s trying to figure out how we can use math to understand what’s going on in our brains when we see, hear, or touch things. The researchers found that some ways we measure how similar two brain signals are can be thought of as trying to “decode” what the signals mean. This means we’re not just looking at how similar they are, but also how well we can use those signals to understand what’s going on in the world. |
Keywords
* Artificial intelligence * Alignment * Neural network * Regression
