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Research gap: active debate on the merits and deficiencies of all current ways of measuring representational alignment

Authors acknowledge there is no settled best alignment metric, affecting the interpretation of all convergence findings

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The Platonic Representation Hypothesis

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

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