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Siddharth Suresh @siddsuresh97.bsky.social · Apr 28

Invited talk by @irisgroen.bsky.social - Representational alignment between DNNs and the brain: Going beyond objects

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Siddharth Suresh @siddsuresh97.bsky.social · Apr 28

Invited talk of @mschrimpf.bsky.social - Representations with a purpose: Grounding Alignment in Use-Driven Questions

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Siddharth Suresh @siddsuresh97.bsky.social · Apr 28

And the posters are out!

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Siddharth Suresh @siddsuresh97.bsky.social · Apr 28

Contributed talk by Megan Tjandrasuwita - Understanding the Emergence of Multimodal Representation Alignment

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Siddharth Suresh @siddsuresh97.bsky.social · Apr 28

@itsneuronal.bsky.social - What representational geometry implies about decodable information

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Siddharth Suresh @siddsuresh97.bsky.social · Apr 28

Janet Wiles - Social robots and language technologies: Insights and open challenges in aligning representations in social interactions

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Siddharth Suresh @siddsuresh97.bsky.social · Apr 28

Find the schedule of the workshop here -

iclr.cc/virtual/2025...

Second Workshop on Representational Alignment (Re$^2$-Align)ICLR 2025

iclr.cc

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Siddharth Suresh @siddsuresh97.bsky.social · Apr 28

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@thisismyhat.bsky.social
@dotadotadota.bsky.social
@sucholutsky.bsky.social
@lukasmut.bsky.social
@eringrant.bsky.social

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Siddharth Suresh @siddsuresh97.bsky.social · Apr 28

📣 BREAKING NEWS: We're also launching a new Hackathon! 🏆 Competition will unfold in TWO phases, with first-phase winners earning the opportunity to present their work at our
@cogcompneuro.bsky.social
event in Amsterdam! 🇳🇱

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Siddharth Suresh @siddsuresh97.bsky.social · Apr 28

🤔 Curious about what "representational alignment" actually means? 🧩 Check out our freshly updated preprint! 📝✨ We've incorporated exciting findings and contributions from the previous edition into this comprehensive update!

arxiv.org/abs/2310.13018

Getting aligned on representational alignment

Biological and artificial information processing systems form representations of the world that they can use to categorize, reason, plan, navigate, and make decisions. How can we measure the similarit...

arxiv.org

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Siddharth Suresh @siddsuresh97.bsky.social · Apr 28

🌟 Don't miss our EXCITING lineup of speakers (@irisgroen.bsky.social,
Dianbo Liu, @mschrimpf.bsky.social
, Janet Wiles, @itsneuronal.bsky.social) and our 🌶️ panel discussion moderated by @thisismyhat.bsky.social which will also include @noahdgoodman.bsky.social! 🔥

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Siddharth Suresh @siddsuresh97.bsky.social · Apr 28

The map to the venue can be found here

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Siddharth Suresh @siddsuresh97.bsky.social · Apr 28

✨ Come join us at the Second edition of the Re-Align workshop
@iclr_conf
! 🚀🧠 The workshop explores the fascinating question of how artificial and biological systems align in their representations of the world. #ReAlign #ICLR2025

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Kosta Derpanis @csprofkgd.bsky.social · Feb 7

Discover how our new mechanistic interpretability work uncovers universal concepts. Check it out on arXiv!

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Lukas Muttenthaler @lukasmut.bsky.social · Jan 17

Re-Align returns to #ICLR2025! Please consider submitting if you work on how ML / CogSci / Neuro systems represent the world & what factors shape these representations 💭🧠🤖

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@sucholutsky.bsky.social
@eringrant.bsky.social
@siddsuresh97.bsky.social

Dota Tianai Dong @dotadotadota.bsky.social · Jan 16

🚨Call for Papers🚨
The Re-Align Workshop is coming back to #ICLR2025

Our CfP is up! Come share your representational alignment work at our interdisciplinary workshop at
@iclr-conf.bsky.social

Deadline is 11:59 pm AOE on Feb 3rd

representational-alignment.github.io

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Erin Grant @eringrant.me · Jan 16

Our representational alignment workshop returns to #ICLR2025! Submit your work on how ML/cogsci/neuro systems represent the world & what shapes these representations 💭🧠🤖

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Dota Tianai Dong @dotadotadota.bsky.social · Jan 16

🚨Call for Papers🚨
The Re-Align Workshop is coming back to #ICLR2025

Our CfP is up! Come share your representational alignment work at our interdisciplinary workshop at
@iclr-conf.bsky.social

Deadline is 11:59 pm AOE on Feb 3rd

representational-alignment.github.io

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Brian Cheung @thisismyhat.bsky.social · Jan 16

Learn about aligning minds and machines.

Call for papers is live now—join us at
@iclr_conf
#ICLR2025.

representational-alignment.github.io/2025/

https://representational-alignment.github.io/2025/

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Siddharth Suresh @siddsuresh97.bsky.social · Jan 16

The Re-Align Workshop is back again this year at #ICLR2025. The deadline is 11:59 pm AOE on Feb 3rd.

Dota Tianai Dong @dotadotadota.bsky.social · Jan 16

🚨Call for Papers🚨
The Re-Align Workshop is coming back to #ICLR2025

Our CfP is up! Come share your representational alignment work at our interdisciplinary workshop at
@iclr-conf.bsky.social

Deadline is 11:59 pm AOE on Feb 3rd

representational-alignment.github.io

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