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Record W4411500943 · doi:10.3389/fnins.2025.1597899

The topology of representational geometry

2025· article· en· W4411500943 on OpenAlexafffund
S. R. Brown, Reza Farivar

Bibliographic record

VenueFrontiers in Neuroscience · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldComputer Science
TopicTopological and Geometric Data Analysis
Canadian institutionsMcGill University
FundersCanadian Institutes of Health Research
KeywordsSimilarity (geometry)Computer scienceArtificial intelligenceTopology (electrical circuits)Function (biology)Artificial neural networkTheoretical computer sciencePattern recognition (psychology)MathematicsImage (mathematics)

Abstract

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Representational similarity analysis (RSA) is a powerful tool for abstracting and then comparing neural representations across brains, regions, models and modalities. However, typical RSA analyses compares pairs of representational dissimilarities to judge similarity of two neural systems, and we argue that such methods cannot capture the shape of representational spaces. By leveraging tools from computational topology which can probe the shape of high-dimensional data, we augment RSA to be able to detect more subtle yet real differences and similarities of representational structures. This new method could be used in conjunction with regular RSA in order to make distinct, complementary inferences about neural function.

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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)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.015
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: Theoretical or conceptual
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.006
Threshold uncertainty score0.013

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.015
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.001
Bibliometrics0.0050.003
Science and technology studies0.0010.008
Scholarly communication0.0060.009
Open science0.0010.005
Research integrity0.0010.003
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0030.001

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 head0.010
GPT teacher head0.271
Teacher spread0.261 · 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 designTheoretical or conceptual
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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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