Position: Maximizing Neural Regression Scores May Not Identify Good Models of the Brain

R Schaeffer, M Khona, S Chandra… - UniReps: 2nd Edition …, 2024 - openreview.net
A prominent methodology in computational neuroscience posits that the brain can be
understood by identifying which artificial neural network models most accurately predict …

[HTML][HTML] Disentangling Fact from Grid Cell Fiction in Trained Deep Path Integrators

R Schaeffer, M Khona, S Koyejo, IR Fiete - ArXiv, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Work on deep learning-based models of grid cells suggests that grid cells generically and
robustly arise from optimizing networks to path integrate, ie, track one's spatial position by …

Not so griddy: Internal representations of RNNs path integrating more than one agent

WT Redman, F Acosta, S Acosta–Mendoza, N Miolane - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
Success in collaborative and competitive environments, where agents must work with or
against each other, requires individuals to encode the position and trajectory of themselves …