Universal Dimensions Track Human and Monkey Brains, Alignment Boosts Universality
martin_hebart · x · 2026-09-25
Follow-up in the Hebart thread: universality strongly correlates with human behavioral and macaque brain predictivity, making universal dimensions more brain-like. The team also showed that aligning models with humans makes their dimensions more universal.
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