Passive attention in artificial neural networks predicts human visual selectivity

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2107.07013v1
• Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2021 21:21:48 GMT
• Title: Passive attention in artificial neural networks predicts human visual selectivity
• Authors: Thomas A. Langlois, H. Charles Zhao, Erin Grant, Ishita Dasgupta, Thomas L. Griffiths, Nori Jacoby
• Abstract summary: We show that passive attention techniques reveal a significant overlap with human visual selectivity estimates. We validate these correlational results with causal manipulations using recognition experiments. This work contributes a new approach to evaluating the biological and psychological validity of leading ANNs as models of human vision.
• Score: 8.50463394182796
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
• Abstract: Developments in machine learning interpretability techniques over the past decade have provided new tools to observe the image regions that are most informative for classification and localization in artificial neural networks (ANNs). Are the same regions similarly informative to human observers? Using data from 78 new experiments and 6,610 participants, we show that passive attention techniques reveal a significant overlap with human visual selectivity estimates derived from 6 distinct behavioral tasks including visual discrimination, spatial localization, recognizability, free-viewing, cued-object search, and saliency search fixations. We find that input visualizations derived from relatively simple ANN architectures probed using guided backpropagation methods are the best predictors of a shared component in the joint variability of the human measures. We validate these correlational results with causal manipulations using recognition experiments. We show that images masked with ANN attention maps were easier for humans to classify than control masks in a speeded recognition experiment. Similarly, we find that recognition performance in the same ANN models was likewise influenced by masking input images using human visual selectivity maps. This work contributes a new approach to evaluating the biological and psychological validity of leading ANNs as models of human vision: by examining their similarities and differences in terms of their visual selectivity to the information contained in images.

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