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20232026
most citedCentaur: a foundation model of human cognition

5 citations · 9 across the 10 of their papers we have counts for

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12 papers

cs.AI2026

CogGym: Towards Large-Scale Comparative Evaluation of Human and Machine Cognition

Lance Ying, Jinzhou Wu, Yingshan Susan Wang +53

Understanding and modeling human intelligence are parallel goals shared by artificial intelligence (AI) and cognitive science. As AI systems grow increasingly capable, in what ways…

cs.LG2026

In-Context Function Learning in Large Language Models

Elif Akata, Konstantinos Voudouris, Vincent Fortuin +1

Large language models (LLMs) can learn from a few demonstrations provided at inference time. We study this in-context learning phenomenon through the lens of Gaussian Processes (GP…

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.LG2025

Concept-Guided Interpretability via Neural Chunking

Shuchen Wu, Stephan Alaniz, Shyamgopal Karthik +3

Neural networks are often described as black boxes, reflecting the significant challenge of understanding their internal workings and interactions. We propose a different perspecti…

cs.AI2025

Bringing Comparative Cognition To Computers

Konstantinos Voudouris, Lucy G. Cheke, Eric Schulz

Researchers are increasingly subjecting artificial intelligence systems to psychological testing. But to rigorously compare their cognitive capacities with humans and other animals…

cs.LG2025

Discovering Chunks in Neural Embeddings for Interpretability

Shuchen Wu, Stephan Alaniz, Eric Schulz +1

Understanding neural networks is challenging due to their high-dimensional, interacting components. Inspired by human cognition, which processes complex sensory data by chunking it…

cs.LG2025

Testing the Limits of Fine-Tuning for Improving Visual Cognition in Vision Language Models

Luca M. Schulze Buschoff, Konstantinos Voudouris, Elif Akata +3

Pre-trained vision language models still fall short of human visual cognition. In an effort to improve visual cognition and align models with human behavior, we introduce visual st…

cs.LG2024

Next state prediction gives rise to entangled, yet compositional representations of objects

Tankred Saanum, Luca M. Schulze Buschoff, Peter Dayan +1

Compositional representations are thought to enable humans to generalize across combinatorially vast state spaces. Models with learnable object slots, which encode information abou…

cs.LG2024

Building, Reusing, and Generalizing Abstract Representations from Concrete Sequences

Shuchen Wu, Mirko Thalmann, Peter Dayan +2

Humans excel at learning abstract patterns across different sequences, filtering out irrelevant details, and transferring these generalized concepts to new sequences. In contrast,…

cs.LG2024★ 5 cited

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.CL2024★ 1 cited

metabench -- A Sparse Benchmark of Reasoning and Knowledge in Large Language Models

Alex Kipnis, Konstantinos Voudouris, Luca M. Schulze Buschoff +1

Large Language Models (LLMs) vary in their abilities on a range of tasks. Initiatives such as the Open LLM Leaderboard aim to quantify these differences with several large benchmar…

cs.LG2023★ 3 cited

Visual cognition in multimodal large language models

Luca M. Schulze Buschoff, Elif Akata, Matthias Bethge +1

A chief goal of artificial intelligence is to build machines that think like people. Yet it has been argued that deep neural network architectures fail to accomplish this. Research…