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Record W4410772110 · doi:10.1101/2025.05.22.655542

A Python Toolbox for Representational Similarity Analysis

2025· preprint· en· W4410772110 on OpenAlexaff
Jasper J.F. van den Bosch, Tal Golan, Benjamin Peters, JohnMark Taylor, Mahdiyar Shahbazi, Baihan Lin, Ian Charest, Jörn Diedrichsen, Nikolaus Kriegeskorte, Marieke Mur, Heiko H. Schütt

Bibliographic record

VenuebioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) · 2025
Typepreprint
Languageen
FieldComputer Science
TopicVideo Analysis and Summarization
Canadian institutionsWestern UniversityUniversité de Montréal
Fundersnot available
KeywordsToolboxPython (programming language)Computer scienceProgramming languageSimilarity (geometry)Artificial intelligence

Abstract

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Representational similarity analysis (RSA) is a method to characterize neural representations and evaluate computational models based on neural representational geometries. Here we present a wave of recent methodological advances, including improved measures of representational distances, evaluators for representational models, and statistical inference methods, which are available to the community in a new open-source toolbox in Python. The rsatoolbox enables neuroscientists to explore neural representational geometries and to evaluate neural network models, connecting theory to experiment in the new era of big models and big data.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.006
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Software · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.116
Threshold uncertainty score0.388

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.006
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0020.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.002
Bibliometrics0.0020.002
Science and technology studies0.0010.001
Scholarly communication0.0030.003
Open science0.0030.004
Research integrity0.0010.003
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.1160.074

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.

Opus teacher head0.018
GPT teacher head0.255
Teacher spread0.237 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreSoftware

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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