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@phess2.bsky.social
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BCS PhD @ MIT | Auditory perception + deep learning | Turning noise into signal

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phess2.bsky.social @phess2.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Just published my first ever blog post about @iangriffith.bsky.social @joshhmcdermott.bsky.social and I's recent paper on the cocktail party problem and brain-inspired auditory attention models. Would love any feedback if you check it out! rphess.cargo.site/Solving-the-...
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Solving the cocktail party problem with a design inspired by the brain — Preston Hess
Solving the cocktail party problem with a design inspired by the brainOn our recent paper, “Optimized feature gains explain and predict successes and failures...
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phess2.bsky.social @phess2.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Can a simple architectural bias produce human-like selective attention? We trained a network with multiplicative feature gains from an attention cue and found it reproduces many cocktail party effects, and even predicts new ones! Loved on working on this with @iangriffith.bsky.social!
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