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AIBullisharXiv – CS AI · Jun 117/10

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Beyond representational alignment with brain-guided language models for robust reasoning

Researchers demonstrate that large language models can be enhanced by integrating brain signals from human reasoning regions, achieving up to 13% accuracy gains on deductive reasoning tasks. By aligning LLM representations with fMRI data from reasoning-related brain regions, the study establishes a framework that guides model behavior beyond traditional language supervision alone.

AINeutralarXiv – CS AI · Jun 116/10

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Position: Hippocampal Explicit Memory Is the Cornerstone for AGI

A research position paper argues that integrating explicit memory systems into Large Language Models is essential for achieving Artificial General Intelligence. The paper contends that current LLMs rely on implicit statistical learning analogous to human implicit memory, but AGI requires higher-order cognitive functions like strategic planning and symbolic reasoning that depend on hippocampal explicit memory mechanisms.

AINeutralarXiv – CS AI · Jun 116/10

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Moving Beyond Diffusion: Hierarchy-to-Hierarchy Autoregression for fMRI-to-Image Reconstruction

Researchers introduce MindHier, a new framework for reconstructing visual images from brain fMRI signals using hierarchical autoregressive modeling instead of diffusion methods. The approach achieves 4.67x faster inference while improving semantic accuracy by aligning neural hierarchies with image generation stages, mimicking human visual perception.

AINeutralarXiv – CS AI · Jun 46/10

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The Variance Brain Foundation Models Forgot: Third-Order Statistics Predict Cognition Where Billion-Parameter Models Fail

Researchers demonstrate that brain foundation models (BFMs)—billion-parameter Transformers trained on fMRI data—paradoxically predict cognitive performance worse than simple linear regression on functional connectivity matrices. The study identifies a variance allocation problem where BFM pretraining captures dominant fMRI variance but destroys higher-order statistical structures (third-order co-skewness) that actually predict cognition, solved through a lightweight linear pipeline requiring no pretraining.

AINeutralarXiv – CS AI · Jun 46/10

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A Unified Geometric Space for Topological Alignment Between Transformer-Based Models and Human Brain Networks

Researchers have developed a novel framework for comparing Transformer-based AI models by mapping their internal attention topology onto human brain networks, analyzing 151 models across vision, language, and multimodal domains. The study reveals an arc-shaped distribution of topological alignment with human cognition, where models trained for semantic abstraction align with higher-order brain networks, while detail-focused models align with low-level networks, though alignment scores show weak correlation with standard performance metrics.

AINeutralarXiv – CS AI · Jun 26/10

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Rare Events, Real Signals: Functional Ensembles as Units of Computation in Deep Spiking Networks

Researchers demonstrate that deep spiking neural networks organize information through functional ensembles—groups of neurons with statistically significant correlations—that encode data through rare, coordinated firing patterns. The study reveals these ensembles operate via robust computational principles similar to biological brains, with potential applications in neural network diagnostics and adversarial robustness testing.

AINeutralarXiv – CS AI · Jun 16/10

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Score Broadcast and Decorrelation: A General Framework for Broadcast-Based Credit Assignment

Researchers introduce Score Broadcast and Decorrelation (SBD), a theoretical framework that generalizes biologically plausible credit assignment mechanisms across diverse loss functions beyond MSE. The framework unifies error broadcast—an alternative to backpropagation that avoids weight transport—under a single orthogonality principle, with experimental validation showing improvements over existing broadcast approaches on image classification tasks.