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Cory Efird
dblp:293/6873 · also Cory Daniel Efird
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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.
| Interdisciplinary, comprehensive, and emerging computing
1 paper |
Bioinformatics and computational biology · 100% | |
| Artificial intelligence
1 paper |
Representation and self-supervised learning · 100% |
Topics — the 3 heaviest of 3, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Machine learning › Representation and self-supervised learning
multimodal representation learning |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Finding Shared Decodable Concepts and their Negations in the Brain · ICLR 2025 |
Bioinformatics and computational biology › neuroscience › neuroinformatics
brain decoding |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Finding Shared Decodable Concepts and their Negations in the Brain · ICLR 2025 |
Bioinformatics and computational biology
computational neuroscience |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Finding Shared Decodable Concepts and their Negations in the Brain · ICLR 2025 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
contrastive learning · 1.7DBSCAN clustering · 1.7CLIP · 1.7
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Finding Shared Decodable Concepts and their Negations in the BrainabstractPrior work has offered evidence for functional localization in the brain; different anatomical regions preferentially activate for certain types of visual input. For example, the fusiform face area preferentially activates for visual stimuli that include a face. However, the spectrum of visual semantics is extensive, and only a few semantically-tuned patches of cortex have so far been identified in the human brain. Using a multimodal (natural language and image) neural network architecture (CLIP, \cite{CLIP}, we train a highly accurate contrastive model that maps brain responses during naturalistic image viewing to CLIP embeddings. We then use a novel adaptation of the DBSCAN clustering algorithm to cluster the parameters of these participant-specific contrastive models. This reveals what we call Shared Decodable Concepts (SDCs): clusters in CLIP space that are decodable from common sets of voxels across multiple participants.
Examining the images most and least associated with each SDC cluster gives us additional insight into the semantic properties of each SDC. We note SDCs for previously reported visual features (e.g. orientation tuning in early visual cortex) as well as visual semantic concepts such as faces, places and bodies. In cases where our method finds multiple clusters for a visuo-semantic concept, the least associated images allow us to dissociate between confounding factors. For example, we discovered two clusters of food images, one driven by color, the other by shape. We also uncover previously unreported areas with visuo-semantic sensitivity such as regions of extrastriate body area (EBA) tuned for legs/hands and sensitivity to numerosity in right intraparietal sulcus, sensitivity associated with visual perspective (close/far) and more. Thus, our contrastive-learning methodology better characterizes new and existing visuo-semantic representations in the brain by leveraging multimodal neural network representations and a novel adaptation of clustering algorithms. Cory Efird, Alex Murphy, Joel Zylberberg, Alona Fyshe |
ICLR | 1 |