Itamar Avitan
@avitanit.bsky.social
PhD candidate at Ben-Gurion University.
Reposted by Itamar Avitan
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!
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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October 26, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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!
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...
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...
NeurIPS Poster Model–Behavior Alignment under Flexible Evaluation: When the Best-Fitting Model Isn’t the Right OneNeurIPS 2025
neurips.cc
December 5, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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...
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...
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.
November 20, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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.