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Sara Cammarota

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1ranked-venue papers
1as first author
1since 2021 · last 2025
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Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 1 · 1 first-author · 1 since 2021

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Artificial intelligence
1 paper
3D vision · 50% Trustworthy machine learning · 25% Generative modeling · 25%

Topics — the 4 heaviest of 4, each with the papers that count most for it

TopicWeightPapersLastEvidence papers
Computer vision › 3D vision
brain decoding
0.912025
Bridging Brains and Concepts: Interpretable Visual Decoding from fMRI with Semantic Bottlenecks · NeurIPS 2025
Computer vision › 3D vision › brain decoding
brain visual decoding
0.912025
Bridging Brains and Concepts: Interpretable Visual Decoding from fMRI with Semantic Bottlenecks · NeurIPS 2025
Machine learning › Generative modeling
diffusion model
0.912025
Bridging Brains and Concepts: Interpretable Visual Decoding from fMRI with Semantic Bottlenecks · NeurIPS 2025
Machine learning › Trustworthy machine learning
interpretability
0.912025
Bridging Brains and Concepts: Interpretable Visual Decoding from fMRI with Semantic Bottlenecks · NeurIPS 2025

Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics

ridge regression · 0.9diffusion model · 0.9CLIP embedding · 0.9
YearPublicationVenuePosition
2025 Bridging Brains and Concepts: Interpretable Visual Decoding from fMRI with Semantic Bottlenecks
abstract
Decoding of visual stimuli from noninvasive neuroimaging techniques such as functional magnetic resonance (fMRI) has advanced rapidly in the last years; yet, most high-performing brain decoding models rely on complicated, non-interpretable latent spaces. In this study we present an interpretable brain decoding framework that inserts a semantic bottleneck into BrainDiffuser, a well established, simple and linear decoding pipeline. We firstly produce a $214-\text{dimensional}$ binary interpretable space $\mathcal{L}$ for images, in which each dimension answers to a specific question about the image (e.g., "Is there a person?", "Is it outdoors?"). A first ridge regression maps voxel activity to this semantic space. Because this mapping is linear, its weight matrix can be visualized as maps of voxel importance for each dimension of $\mathcal{L}$, revealing which cortical regions influence mostly each semantic dimension. A second regression then transforms these concept vectors into CLIP embeddings required to produce the final decoded image, conditioning the BrainDiffuser model. We found that voxel-wise weight maps for individual questions are highly consistent with canonical category-selective regions in the visual cortex (face, bodies, places, words), simultaneously revealing that activation distributions, not merely location, bear semantic meaning in the brain. Visual brain decoding performances are only slightly lower compared to the original BrainDiffuser metrics (e.g., the CLIP similarity is decreased by $\leq 4$% for the four subjects), yet offering substantial gains in interpretability and neuroscientific insights. These results show that our interpretable brain decoding pipeline enables voxel-level analysis of semantic representations in the human brain without sacrificing decoding accuracy.
Sara Cammarota, Matteo Ferrante, Nicola Toschi
NeurIPS1