Extracting low-dimensional psychological representations from convolutional neural networks
- Aditi Jha, Department of Electrical Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, United States
- Joshua Peterson, Department of Computer Science, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, United States
- Tom Griffiths, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States
AbstractDeep neural networks are increasingly being used in cognitive modeling as a means of deriving representations for complex stimuli such as images. While the predictive power of these networks is high, it is often not clear whether they also offer useful explanations of the task at hand. Convolutional neural network representations have been shown to be predictive of human similarity judgments for images after appropriate adaptation. However, these high-dimensional representations are difficult to interpret. Here we present a method for reducing these representations to a low-dimensional space which is still predictive of similarity judgments. We show that these low-dimensional representations also provide insightful explanations of factors underlying human similarity judgments.