Kathy Garcia
@gkathy.bsky.social
Computational Cognitive Science PhD at Johns Hopkins with Leyla Isik
| BS @Stanford|
| 🔗 https://garciakathy.github.io/ |
| BS @Stanford|
| 🔗 https://garciakathy.github.io/ |
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Kathy Garcia
@gkathy.bsky.social
· Oct 3
🚨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
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
Excited to share that I’m at #NeurIPS2025 this year! 🧠
I’ll be presenting my work at UniReps on Social Tokens where we explore how to inject socially relevant visual features into language models to improve social reasoning and alignment.
If you’re around, come say hi Feel free to DM for a chat! ☕️
I’ll be presenting my work at UniReps on Social Tokens where we explore how to inject socially relevant visual features into language models to improve social reasoning and alignment.
If you’re around, come say hi Feel free to DM for a chat! ☕️
December 3, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Excited to share that I’m at #NeurIPS2025 this year! 🧠
I’ll be presenting my work at UniReps on Social Tokens where we explore how to inject socially relevant visual features into language models to improve social reasoning and alignment.
If you’re around, come say hi Feel free to DM for a chat! ☕️
I’ll be presenting my work at UniReps on Social Tokens where we explore how to inject socially relevant visual features into language models to improve social reasoning and alignment.
If you’re around, come say hi Feel free to DM for a chat! ☕️
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
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
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
Our PhD students also run an application mentoring program for prospective students. Mentoring requests due November 15.
tinyurl.com/2nrn4jf9
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
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.
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
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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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
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
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
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
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
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
🚨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
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
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...
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 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...
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...
📢 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]
📆 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
📢 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]
📆 Thur, Apr, 24: 3:00-5:30 - Poster session 2 (#64)
📄 bit.ly/4jISKES%E2%8... [1/6]
Reposted by Kathy Garcia
New paper! 🧠 **The cerebellar components of the human language network**
with: @hsmall.bsky.social @moshepoliak.bsky.social @gretatuckute.bsky.social @benlipkin.bsky.social @awolna.bsky.social @aniladmello.bsky.social and @evfedorenko.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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with: @hsmall.bsky.social @moshepoliak.bsky.social @gretatuckute.bsky.social @benlipkin.bsky.social @awolna.bsky.social @aniladmello.bsky.social and @evfedorenko.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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The cerebellar components of the human language network
The cerebellum's capacity for neural computation is arguably unmatched. Yet despite evidence of cerebellar contributions to cognition, including language, its precise role remains debated. Here, we sy...
www.biorxiv.org
April 21, 2025 at 3:19 PM
New paper! 🧠 **The cerebellar components of the human language network**
with: @hsmall.bsky.social @moshepoliak.bsky.social @gretatuckute.bsky.social @benlipkin.bsky.social @awolna.bsky.social @aniladmello.bsky.social and @evfedorenko.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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with: @hsmall.bsky.social @moshepoliak.bsky.social @gretatuckute.bsky.social @benlipkin.bsky.social @awolna.bsky.social @aniladmello.bsky.social and @evfedorenko.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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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!
We're excited to introduce the 2025 Glushko Prize winners, and the fascinating research behind their work!
April 23, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Congratulations to @emaliemcmahon.bsky.social and all the Glushko Prize winners on this amazing and well-deserved honor!
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!
We're excited to introduce the 2025 Glushko Prize winners, and the fascinating research behind their work!
April 23, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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.