Reposted by Mick Bonner
What is the nature of universal representations in AI models, and what determines whether they emerge?
Our paper accepted at #neurips2026 led by @florianmahner.bsky.social & @rothj.bsky.social addressed these questions comparing 162 vision models, with intriguing results.
arxiv.org/abs/2605.13675
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Characterizing Universal Object Representations Across Vision Models
Deep neural networks trained with different architectures, objectives, and datasets have been reported to converge on similar visual representations. However, what remains unknown is which visual prop...
