Bridging the Gap Between Artificial and Human Visual Perception
Deep learning has made significant advancements in artificial intelligence, specifically in natural language processing and computer vision. Nonetheless, advanced systems often fall short in ways that humans would not, revealing a crucial disparity between artificial and human intelligence. This inconsistency has sparked discussions about whether neural networks possess the essential elements of human cognition. The challenge lies in creating systems that demonstrate more human-like behavior, particularly regarding robustness and generalization. While humans can adapt to environmental changes and generalize across diverse visual settings, AI models often struggle with shifted data distributions between training and test sets. This lack of robustness in visual representations presents significant obstacles for downstream applications that require strong generalization capabilities.
A team of researchers from various institutions proposes a unique framework called AligNet to tackle the misalignment between human and machine visual representations. This approach aims to simulate large-scale human-like similarity judgment datasets for aligning neural network models with human perception. The methodology starts by using an affine transformation to align model representations with human semantic judgments in triplet odd-one-out tasks. This process incorporates uncertainty measures from human responses to enhance model calibration. The aligned version of a state-of-the-art vision foundation model (VFM) then serves as a surrogate for generating human-like similarity judgments by grouping representations into meaningful superordinate categories.
The results demonstrate substantial improvements in aligning machine representations with human judgments across multiple levels of abstraction, particularly for global coarse-grained semantics where soft alignment substantially enhanced model performance, surpassing the reliability score of 61.92%. For local fine-grained semantics and class-boundary triplets, AligNet fine-tuning achieved remarkable alignment exceeding the noise ceiling of 89.21%. Furthermore, this fine-tuning generalized well to other similar judgment datasets.
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