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Kathy Garcia
@gkathy.bsky.social
Computational Cognitive Science PhD at Johns Hopkins with Leyla Isik

| BS @Stanford|

| 🔗 https://garciakathy.github.io/ |
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🚨New preprint w/ @lisik.bsky.social!
Aligning Video Models with Human Social Judgments via Behavior-Guided Fine-Tuning

We introduce a ~49k triplet social video dataset, uncover a modality gap (language > video), and close via novel behavior-guided fine-tuning.
🔗 arxiv.org/abs/2510.01502
Reposted by Kathy Garcia
The department of Cognitive Science @jhu.edu is seeking motivated students interested in joining our interdisciplinary PhD program! Applications due 1 Dec

Our PhD students also run an application mentoring program for prospective students. Mentoring requests due November 15.

tinyurl.com/2nrn4jf9
October 30, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Reposted by Kathy Garcia
Our work showing human-like individual differences in perceptual decisions emerge from random weight initializations in deep neural networks has been accepted in two NeurIPS workshops! 🎉 Awesome job by my student @herrickfung.bsky.social in collaboration with the amazing @apurvaratan.bsky.social.
September 23, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Reposted by Kathy Garcia
Excited to share new work with @hleemasson.bsky.social , Ericka Wodka, Stewart Mostofsky and @lisik.bsky.social! We investigated how simultaneous vision and language signals are combined in the brain using naturalistic+controlled fMRI. Read the paper here: osf.io/b5p4n
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September 24, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Reposted by Kathy Garcia
Check out this new preprint led by @gkathy.bsky.social showing how a new fine-tuning scheme using human similarity judgements can improve existing video models, making them more human-aligned on different social tasks!

arxiv.org/abs/2510.01502
🚨New preprint w/ @lisik.bsky.social!
Aligning Video Models with Human Social Judgments via Behavior-Guided Fine-Tuning

We introduce a ~49k triplet social video dataset, uncover a modality gap (language > video), and close via novel behavior-guided fine-tuning.
🔗 arxiv.org/abs/2510.01502
October 3, 2025 at 2:04 PM
🚨New preprint w/ @lisik.bsky.social!
Aligning Video Models with Human Social Judgments via Behavior-Guided Fine-Tuning

We introduce a ~49k triplet social video dataset, uncover a modality gap (language > video), and close via novel behavior-guided fine-tuning.
🔗 arxiv.org/abs/2510.01502
October 3, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Reposted by Kathy Garcia
Excited to be presenting this paper at #ICLR2025 this week!
Come to the poster if you want to know more about how human brains and DNNs process video 🧠🤖

📆 Sat 26 Apr, 10:00-12:30 - Poster session 5 (#64)
📄 openreview.net/pdf?id=LM4PY...
🌐 sergeantchris.github.io/hundred_mode...
April 23, 2025 at 10:57 AM
📢 Excited to announce our paper at #ICLR2025: “Modeling dynamic social vision highlights gaps between deep learning and humans”! w/ @emaliemcmahon.bsky.social, Colin Conwell, Mick Bonner, @lisik.bsky.social


‪📆 Thur, Apr, 24: 3:00-5:30 - Poster session 2 (#64) ‬
‪📄 bit.ly/4jISKES%E2%8... [1/6]
April 23, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Reposted by Kathy Garcia
Congratulations to @emaliemcmahon.bsky.social and all the Glushko Prize winners on this amazing and well-deserved honor!
It is truly an honor to be recognized as a Glushko prize winner among all these incredible scientists. Thank you to the prize committee and to my PhD advisors @lisik.bsky.social and Mick Bonner.
Join us in congratulating the rising stars of #CogSci 🌟

We're excited to introduce the 2025 Glushko Prize winners, and the fascinating research behind their work!
April 23, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Reposted by Kathy Garcia
It is truly an honor to be recognized as a Glushko prize winner among all these incredible scientists. Thank you to the prize committee and to my PhD advisors @lisik.bsky.social and Mick Bonner.
Join us in congratulating the rising stars of #CogSci 🌟

We're excited to introduce the 2025 Glushko Prize winners, and the fascinating research behind their work!
April 23, 2025 at 11:45 AM