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Oriented Gabor-like filters are common in both artificial and biological vision systems, suggesting convergence to a similar initial representational layer

Early evidence of cross-system representational convergence

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The Platonic Representation Hypothesis

(2024) · Minyoung Huh · Brian Cheung · Tongzhou Wang · Phillip Isola

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Gabor-like Filters
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Simple cell receptive field properties common in both artificial and biological early visual systems

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There is a growing similarity in how datapoints are represented in different neural network models, spanning different architectures, training objectives, and data modalities
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