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#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

Association profile conditioning in a set-temporal transformer for cross-session intracortical motor decoding

APST is presented, an Association Profile-conditioned Set-Temporal transformer that adapts to new sessions with all network weights frozen, and summarizes how each unit's firing relates to behavior in a four-dimensional association profile computed in closed form.

Xin-Yuan Zhang, Han-Dong Mo, Peng-Fei Wen et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Future Video Generation Better Aligns with the Human Visual Cortex than Observed Video

Studying the alignment between the internal representations of vision models and the responses of the visual cortex to the same observed visual stimuli has enabled us to better understand human visual processing. However, studies so far have largely overlooked the fact that the human brain not only processes observed v...

Chang-Bae Bang, Hyungjin Chung, Byung-Hoon Kim · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

TERRA: Terrain-Aware Reconstruction, Retargeting and Control for Musculoskeletal Locomotion

Recent advances in musculoskeletal modeling and reinforcement learning have enabled muscle-actuated agents to reproduce increasingly complex human motions. Yet these capabilities remain largely confined to flat ground, in part because motion datasets rarely include aligned terrain geometry and because retargeting terra...

Merkourios Simos, Chengkun Li, Bianca Ziliotto et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Sep 2026

Better Behavioral Prediction, More Faithful Model Ablations? Evidence from Sequential Choice

Using predictive models to explain cognition requires more than accurate behavioral predictions. Input ablations offer an appealing route: remove information from a model and interpret the resulting performance change as evidence of its importance for behavior. Yet this inference assumes that the model's dependence on...

Han-Bo Xie · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Sep 2026

How Optimality Structures Sparse Dictionaries: Theory for Interpreting SAE Representations

Sparse Autoencoders (SAEs) have found success parsing neural network representations into interpretable concepts, providing a basis for understanding and control. However, what exactly SAEs extract and, hence, the scientific conclusions we can draw from them are not obvious. In short, if your SAE behaves strangely, doe...

William Dorrell · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Sep 2026

Reward Valuation in Large Language Models: Causal Induction of Anhedonia

Recent frontier models mimic complex aspects of human cognition. Here we ask whether this alignment extends into reward valuation, which we assess in a mechanistic framework. Specifically, we use clinical tests that were developed to evaluate anhedonia in human subjects with major depressive disorders. Mechanistically,...

Melika Honarmand, Samin Mahdipour Aghabagher, Martin Schrimpf · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Sep 2026

Receptive-field-constrained stimulus optimization for human early and intermediate visual cortex

An ongoing challenge in sensory neuroscience is to characterize the feature dimensions encoded by cortical populations. Recent approaches probe feature selectivity in a data-driven way, by synthesizing a most-exciting-input (MEI) for a target neural population. While this approach has been successfully applied to human...

Jun-Ru Zhao, Han-Fei Guo, Andrew F. Luo et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Sep 2026

Traversing the solution space of neural networks with Hessian Null Space Continuation

On a single task, deep networks can learn many solutions, depending on their optimizer, training data, architecture, and hyperparameters. Many of these solutions are mode-connected: rather than isolated points in weight space, they are connected by low-loss regions. Yet how their internal computation varies within thes...

Ann C. Huang, Mitchell Ostrow, Zhou-Yang Lu et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Open access Aug 2026

Are Our Current Rational Decision-Making Models Truly Rational? A Critical Analysis and a New Neurobiological Framework

This paper critically examines the foundational assumptions of rational decision-making models and finds them to be systematically and comprehensively flawed. Through a rigorous analysis of empirical evidence from behavioral economics and neuroscience, we demonstrate that traditional models, such as Expected Utility Th...

Kwan Hong TAN · 0 citations
#machine learning Open access Aug 2026

Are Our Current Rational Decision-Making Models Truly Rational? A Critical Analysis and a New Neurobiological Framework

This paper critically examines the foundational assumptions of rational decision-making models and finds them to be systematically and comprehensively flawed. Through a rigorous analysis of empirical evidence from behavioral economics and neuroscience, we demonstrate that traditional models, such as Expected Utility Th...

Kwan Hong TAN · 0 citations
#natural language process... Open access Aug 2026

Are Moral Facts Real or Constructed? Novel Theoretical Frameworks for Understanding Moral Ontology

The question of whether moral facts are real or constructed has dominated metaethical discourse for centuries, with traditional positions including moral realism, anti-realism, and constructivism offering competing accounts of moral ontology. This paper introduces four novel theoretical frameworks that transcend tradit...

Kwan Hong TAN · 0 citations
#natural language process... Open access Aug 2026

Are Moral Facts Real or Constructed? Novel Theoretical Frameworks for Understanding Moral Ontology

The question of whether moral facts are real or constructed has dominated metaethical discourse for centuries, with traditional positions including moral realism, anti-realism, and constructivism offering competing accounts of moral ontology. This paper introduces four novel theoretical frameworks that transcend tradit...

Kwan Hong TAN · 0 citations

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