CBMM Memo Series: Recent submissions

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    • Measuring and modeling the perception of natural and unconstrained gaze in humans and machines 

      Harari, Daniel; Gao, Tao; Kanwisher, Nancy; Tenenbaum, Joshua; Ullman, Shimon (Center for Brains, Minds and Machines (CBMM), arXiv, 2016-11-28)
      Humans are remarkably adept at interpreting the gaze direction of other individuals in their surroundings. This skill is at the core of the ability to engage in joint visual attention, which is essential for establishing ...

    • Theory I: Why and When Can Deep Networks Avoid the Curse of Dimensionality? 

      Poggio, Tomaso; Mhaskar, Hrushikesh; Rosasco, Lorenzo; Miranda, Brando; Liao, Qianli (Center for Brains, Minds and Machines (CBMM), arXiv, 2016-11-23)
      [formerly titled "Why and When Can Deep – but Not Shallow – Networks Avoid the Curse of Dimensionality: a Review"] The paper reviews and extends an emerging body of theoretical results on deep learning including the ...

    • Where do hypotheses come from? 

      Dasgupta, Ishita; Schulz, Eric; Gershman, Samuel J. (Center for Brains, Minds and Machines (CBMM), 2016-10-24)
      Why are human inferences sometimes remarkably close to the Bayesian ideal and other times systematically biased? One notable instance of this discrepancy is that tasks where the candidate hypotheses are explicitly available ...