Itamar Avitan
@avitanit.bsky.social
PhD candidate at Ben-Gurion University.
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Itamar Avitan
@avitanit.bsky.social
· Nov 20
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.
Reposted by Itamar Avitan
🥳 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 ⬇️
What aspects of human knowledge do vision models like CLIP fail to capture, and how can we improve them? We suggest models miss key global organization; aligning them makes them more robust. Check out LukasMuttenthaler's work, finally out (in Nature!?) www.nature.com/articles/s41... + our blog! 1/3
Aligning machine and human visual representations across abstraction levels - Nature
Aligning foundation models with human judgments enables them to more accurately approximate human behaviour and uncertainty across various levels of visual abstraction, while additionally improving th...
www.nature.com
November 12, 2025 at 5:05 PM
🥳 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 ⬇️
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...
www.biorxiv.org
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.