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| author | Ma, Zihan Xia, Tian Wang, Kexin Li, Xiao He, Xiaowei Ren, Yudan |
| author_facet | Ma, Zihan Xia, Tian Wang, Kexin Li, Xiao He, Xiaowei Ren, Yudan |
| contents | Understanding the intricate mappings between visual stimuli and neural responses is a fundamental challenge in cognitive neuroscience. While current approaches predominantly align images and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) responses in Euclidean space, this geometry often struggles to preserve fine-grained semantic relationships and latent hierarchical structures across visual and neural modalities. To overcome this, we propose HyNeuralMap, a framework that employ hyperbolic Lorentz model to map visual semantics into a shared, cross-subject neural hierarchy. By leveraging the negative curvature of hyperbolic space as an inductive bias, the proposed framework better captures hierarchical semantic organization and cross-subject neural similarities. Specifically, visual and neural embeddings are jointly optimized through hyperbolic geometric alignment, where geodesic distances preserve semantic proximity and hierarchical relationships more effectively than Euclidean embeddings. Experiments demonstrate that HyNeuralMap consistently outperforms state-of-the-art Euclidean baselines in both multi-label semantic prediction and cross-modal retrieval tasks. This confirms hyperbolic geometry's superiority for cross-modal semantic alignment and hierarchical modeling, providing a new avenue for vision-neural representation learning. |
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| spellingShingle | HyNeuralMap: Hyperbolic Mapping of Visual Semantics to Neural Hierarchies Ma, Zihan Xia, Tian Wang, Kexin Li, Xiao He, Xiaowei Ren, Yudan Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Understanding the intricate mappings between visual stimuli and neural responses is a fundamental challenge in cognitive neuroscience. While current approaches predominantly align images and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) responses in Euclidean space, this geometry often struggles to preserve fine-grained semantic relationships and latent hierarchical structures across visual and neural modalities. To overcome this, we propose HyNeuralMap, a framework that employ hyperbolic Lorentz model to map visual semantics into a shared, cross-subject neural hierarchy. By leveraging the negative curvature of hyperbolic space as an inductive bias, the proposed framework better captures hierarchical semantic organization and cross-subject neural similarities. Specifically, visual and neural embeddings are jointly optimized through hyperbolic geometric alignment, where geodesic distances preserve semantic proximity and hierarchical relationships more effectively than Euclidean embeddings. Experiments demonstrate that HyNeuralMap consistently outperforms state-of-the-art Euclidean baselines in both multi-label semantic prediction and cross-modal retrieval tasks. This confirms hyperbolic geometry's superiority for cross-modal semantic alignment and hierarchical modeling, providing a new avenue for vision-neural representation learning. |
| title | HyNeuralMap: Hyperbolic Mapping of Visual Semantics to Neural Hierarchies |
| topic | Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.09392 |