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Damian Smith
dblp:421/0476
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1ranked-venue papers
1as first author
1since 2021 · last 2025
—ORCID · none
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 1 · 1 first-author · 1 since 2021
Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.
| Artificial intelligence
1 paper |
Representation and self-supervised learning · 75% Trustworthy machine learning · 25% |
Topics — the 4 heaviest of 4, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Machine learning › Representation and self-supervised learning
functional alignment |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Functional Alignment Can Mislead: Examining Model Stitching · ICML 2025 |
Machine learning › Trustworthy machine learning
interpretability |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Functional Alignment Can Mislead: Examining Model Stitching · ICML 2025 |
Machine learning › Representation and self-supervised learning
model stitching |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Functional Alignment Can Mislead: Examining Model Stitching · ICML 2025 |
Machine learning › Representation and self-supervised learning › representation analysis
representation similarity |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Functional Alignment Can Mislead: Examining Model Stitching · ICML 2025 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
model stitching · 0.9
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Functional Alignment Can Mislead: Examining Model StitchingabstractA common belief in the representational comparison literature is that if two representations can be functionally aligned, they must capture similar information. In this paper we focus on model stitching and show that models can be functionally aligned, but represent very different information. Firstly, we show that discriminative models with very different biases can be stitched together. We then show that models trained to solve entirely different tasks on different data modalities, and even clustered random noise, can be successfully stitched into MNIST or ImageNet-trained models. We end with a discussion of the wider impact of our results on the community's current beliefs. Overall, our paper draws attention to the need to correctly interpret the results of such functional similarity measures and highlights the need for approaches that capture informational similarity. Damian Smith, Harvey Mannering, Antonia Marcu |
ICML | 1 |