Lowest-likelihood impact sounds produce the largest impairment in physical inference
JoshHMcDermott · x · 2026-11-10
Part 11 of McDermott's thread: the conditions producing the greatest impairment in listeners' judgments were those whose impulse responses had the lowest likelihood under the intact generative model. This supports the hypothesis that humans use knowledge of real-world distributions to constrain physical inferences from sound.
More from Research
- MBZUAI releases open world model PAN 2: LLM planning plus 29B diffusion hits 75.1% step accuracy — rohanpaul_ai · 2026-11-11
- ProtoMotions Deployment Stack: One Exported Graph, 1.3 ms C++ Loop for Real Robots — carlosdponx · 2026-11-11
- MKA deep dive: top models cluster at 95-97% on basics but split 28-57% on hard tasks — ArtificialAnlys · 2026-11-11
- MKA Benchmark by Output Type: No Model Tops 52% on Word or Text Files — ArtificialAnlys · 2026-11-11
- Walmart new grad turns solo RTX 3090 Ti side project into SIGGRAPH 2026 paper — teortaxesTex · 2026-11-11
- Emergent misalignment is predictable OOD; later-layer fine-tuning reduces transfer — AdtRaghunathan · 2026-11-11