Quaddles: A multidimensional 3D object set with parametrically-controlled and customizable features
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Abstract
Abstract Many studies of vision and cognition require novel three-dimensional object sets defined by a parametric feature space. Creating such sets and verifying that they are suitable for a given task, however, can be extremely time-consuming and effortful. Here we present a new set of multidimensional objects, Quaddles , designed for a study of feature-based learning and attention, but adaptable for many research purposes. Quaddles have features that are all equally-visible from any angle around the vertical axis, and which all have similar response biases on a feature detection task, thus removing one potential source of bias in object selection. They are available as two-dimensional images, rotating videos, and FBX object files suitable for use with any modern video game engine. We also provide examples and tutorials for modifying Quaddles or creating completely new object sets from scratch, hopefully greatly speeding up the development time of future novel object studies. Author’s note This work was supported by grant MOP 102482 from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (TW) and by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada Brain in Action CREATE-IRTG program (MRW, TW). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, the decision to publish, or the preparation of this manuscript. Authors would like to thank Hongying Wang for technical support, and Isabel Gauthier for comments on a draft version of the manuscript. The study described herein was approved by the York University Office of Research Ethics (Certificate # 2016-214). A draft version of this manuscript is available online at BioR χ iv:
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
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| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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