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6 papers

cs.CV2026

Meta-learning as a principle for human-like visual representations

Can Demircan, Marcel Binz, Alireza Modirshanechi +1

The structure of human visual representations underpins our capacity for adaptive behaviour. While pretrained neural networks model human visual representations with unprecedented…

cs.LG2026

Can Vision Language Models Learn Intuitive Physics from Interaction?

Luca M. Schulze Buschoff, Konstantinos Voudouris, Can Demircan +1

Pre-trained vision language models do not have good intuitions about the physical world. Recent work has shown that supervised fine-tuning can improve model performance on simple p…

cs.CL2026

Post-training makes large language models less human-like

Marcel Binz, Elif Akata, Abdullah Almaatouq +76

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used as surrogates for human participants, but it remains unclear which models best capture human behavior and why. To address this, w…

cs.LG2025

A circuit for predicting hierarchical structure in-context in Large Language Models

Tankred Saanum, Can Demircan, Samuel J. Gershman +1

Large Language Models (LLMs) excel at in-context learning, the ability to use information provided as context to improve prediction of future tokens. Induction heads have been argu…

cs.LG2025

Centaur: a foundation model of human cognition

Marcel Binz, Elif Akata, Matthias Bethge +37

Establishing a unified theory of cognition has been a major goal of psychology. While there have been previous attempts to instantiate such theories by building computational model…

cs.LG2025

Evaluating alignment between humans and neural network representations in image-based learning tasks

Can Demircan, Tankred Saanum, Leonardo Pettini +5

Humans represent scenes and objects in rich feature spaces, carrying information that allows us to generalise about category memberships and abstract functions with few examples. W…