Neuroscientist studying biological and artificial intelligence at the DiCarlo lab @MIT Alumnus from @Neuro_CF, @BCG, @ISTecnico. Born 🇵🇹/🇪🇺; living 🇺🇸
Jun 17, 2020 • 12 tweets • 7 min read
Simulating a primary visual cortex at the front of CNNs improves their robustness to image perturbations. #AI still has a lot to learn from #neuroscience. Work co-lead with @joeldapello. Also @martin_schrimpf@JamesJDiCarlo@GeigerFranziska@neurobongo 1/N biorxiv.org/content/10.110…
This work was the result of an unexpected collaboration. Joel discovered that the ability of CNNs to explain V1 responses was correlated with their adversarial robustness. Particularly, adversarially trained models [@aleks_madry] had the most V1-like representations.