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Itamar Avitan

@avitanit.bsky.social

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PhD candidate at Ben-Gurion University.

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Tal Golan @talgolanneuro.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

How can we design experiments that make computational models disagree? One section of our new @natrevneuro.nature.com Review with @kriegeskorte.bsky.social and @heikoschuett.bsky.social examines studies that used stimulus sets designed to elicit distinct predictions from competing models. 1/16

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Lukas Muttenthaler @lukasmut.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

🥳 I am incredibly humbled and grateful to share that our work, "Aligning machine and human visual representations across abstraction levels," has been published today in @nature.com ⬇️

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herrick fung @herrickfung.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

No two humans behave exactly alike. But what about neural networks? We found early evidence that human-like individual differences in behavior emerge from networks trained with different initializations. Here’s a peek at our results—to be presented at UniReps & DBM @NeurIPS. Full paper on the way!

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Human-like individual differences emerge from random weight initializations in neural networks

Much of AI research targets the behavior of an average human, a focus that traces to Turing's imitation game. Yet, no two human individuals behave exactly alike. In this study, we show that artificial...

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Itamar Avitan @avitanit.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Presenting our #NeurIPS2025 work on model–behavior alignment today. Could we even recognize the “right” model of behavior under flexible evaluation? Come chat about DNNs & human visual preception! Hall C-E #2010 Friday (today!) 4:30 – 7:30 PM neurips.cc/virtual/2025...

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NeurIPS Poster Model–Behavior Alignment under Flexible Evaluation: When the Best-Fitting Model Isn’t the Right OneNeurIPS 2025

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Itamar Avitan @avitanit.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Excited to share my first paper: Model–Behavior Alignment under Flexible Evaluation: When the Best-Fitting Model Isn’t the Right One (NeurIPS 2025). link below.

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