Revealing Vision-Language Integration in the Brain with Multimodal Networks

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Autori principali: Subramaniam, Vighnesh, Conwell, Colin, Wang, Christopher, Kreiman, Gabriel, Katz, Boris, Cases, Ignacio, Barbu, Andrei
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author Subramaniam, Vighnesh
Conwell, Colin
Wang, Christopher
Kreiman, Gabriel
Katz, Boris
Cases, Ignacio
Barbu, Andrei
author_facet Subramaniam, Vighnesh
Conwell, Colin
Wang, Christopher
Kreiman, Gabriel
Katz, Boris
Cases, Ignacio
Barbu, Andrei
contents We use (multi)modal deep neural networks (DNNs) to probe for sites of multimodal integration in the human brain by predicting stereoencephalography (SEEG) recordings taken while human subjects watched movies. We operationalize sites of multimodal integration as regions where a multimodal vision-language model predicts recordings better than unimodal language, unimodal vision, or linearly-integrated language-vision models. Our target DNN models span different architectures (e.g., convolutional networks and transformers) and multimodal training techniques (e.g., cross-attention and contrastive learning). As a key enabling step, we first demonstrate that trained vision and language models systematically outperform their randomly initialized counterparts in their ability to predict SEEG signals. We then compare unimodal and multimodal models against one another. Because our target DNN models often have different architectures, number of parameters, and training sets (possibly obscuring those differences attributable to integration), we carry out a controlled comparison of two models (SLIP and SimCLR), which keep all of these attributes the same aside from input modality. Using this approach, we identify a sizable number of neural sites (on average 141 out of 1090 total sites or 12.94%) and brain regions where multimodal integration seems to occur. Additionally, we find that among the variants of multimodal training techniques we assess, CLIP-style training is the best suited for downstream prediction of the neural activity in these sites.
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spellingShingle Revealing Vision-Language Integration in the Brain with Multimodal Networks
Subramaniam, Vighnesh
Conwell, Colin
Wang, Christopher
Kreiman, Gabriel
Katz, Boris
Cases, Ignacio
Barbu, Andrei
Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
Neural and Evolutionary Computing
Neurons and Cognition
We use (multi)modal deep neural networks (DNNs) to probe for sites of multimodal integration in the human brain by predicting stereoencephalography (SEEG) recordings taken while human subjects watched movies. We operationalize sites of multimodal integration as regions where a multimodal vision-language model predicts recordings better than unimodal language, unimodal vision, or linearly-integrated language-vision models. Our target DNN models span different architectures (e.g., convolutional networks and transformers) and multimodal training techniques (e.g., cross-attention and contrastive learning). As a key enabling step, we first demonstrate that trained vision and language models systematically outperform their randomly initialized counterparts in their ability to predict SEEG signals. We then compare unimodal and multimodal models against one another. Because our target DNN models often have different architectures, number of parameters, and training sets (possibly obscuring those differences attributable to integration), we carry out a controlled comparison of two models (SLIP and SimCLR), which keep all of these attributes the same aside from input modality. Using this approach, we identify a sizable number of neural sites (on average 141 out of 1090 total sites or 12.94%) and brain regions where multimodal integration seems to occur. Additionally, we find that among the variants of multimodal training techniques we assess, CLIP-style training is the best suited for downstream prediction of the neural activity in these sites.
title Revealing Vision-Language Integration in the Brain with Multimodal Networks
topic Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
Neural and Evolutionary Computing
Neurons and Cognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.14481