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Relational Knowledge Distillation aligns DNNs with human vision

Researchers have developed a method called Relational Knowledge Distillation (RKD) to better align the internal representations of deep neural networks (DNNs) with human vision. This technique transfers the relational structure of human representations into DNNs, improving their similarity to human mental representations. Using Gromov-Wasserstein optimal transport (GWOT) for unsupervised comparison, the study demonstrates that RKD enables fine-grained alignment at the individual-object level on a curated test set. The improvement is attributed to a more human-like global structure in the DNNs, rather than local nearest-neighbor overlaps. AI

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Relational Knowledge Distillation aligns DNNs with human vision

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  1. arXiv cs.CV TIER_1 English(EN) · Yuria Shimizu, Soh Takahashi, Takato Horii, Masafumi Oizumi ·

    Relational Knowledge Distillation Brings DNN Representations Close Enough to Humans to Be Aligned Without Supervision

    arXiv:2608.27877v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Linking the internal representations of deep neural networks (DNNs) to human mental representations is important for using DNNs as computational models of human vision. Existing DNN representations remain insufficiently similar to h…