McGill PhD Graduates, Providing Strong Evidence for Platonic Representation Hypothesis
sivareddyg · x · 2026-07-31
Benno Krojer successfully defended his PhD thesis on the "Deep Integration of Vision and Language" at McGill NLP. His research spans evaluation, modeling, and interpretability, offering some of the strongest evidence for the platonic representation hypothesis that multi-modal representations are converging. He will next join David Bau's group at Northeastern University for a postdoc focusing on interpretability.
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