
In the rapidly advancing fields of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and neuroscience, the concept of representational alignment has emerged as a critical area of study. This special track focuses on the challenges and innovations in aligning internal representations across different AI models and biological systems. Representational alignment refers to the process of harmonizing the internal data representations of AI systems with those of human cognition, ensuring consistency and interpretability across diverse modalities and architectures. By improving representational alignment, we can significantly enhance the transparency, interpretability, and performance of AI models. This alignment allows for a clearer understanding of how AI systems process information, making their decision-making processes more explainable. Conversely, explainability methods can be leveraged to refine and improve representational alignment, creating a synergistic relationship between these two areas. We invite researchers from machine learning, neuroscience, and cognitive science to explore these intersections and contribute to the advancement of explainable AI through representational alignment.
- Methods for explaining AI decisions by aligning internal representations with human cognition.
- Enhancement of explainability and transparency of AI models through representational alignment.
- Investigation of representational alignment through xAI.
- Metrics and methodologies for assessing alignment between AI models and human cognition.
- Comparative studies of alignment across different AI architectures and learning paradigms.
- Theoretical frameworks for understanding representational alignment.
- Identifiability in functional and parameter spaces of AI models.
- Learning dynamics in neuroscience and their parallels in AI.
- Applications in multi-modal AI systems and cross-domain learning.
- Case studies demonstrating the benefits of representational alignment in real-world scenarios.
- The role of alignment in improving the interpretability of complex AI systems.
- Insights from biological systems that can inform AI model development and explainability.
- The impact of representational alignment on AI safety and ethical considerations.
- Behavioral and value alignment in the context of representational alignment.
- Strategies for ensuring ethical use of aligned AI systems.
- Identifying and addressing the challenges in achieving representational alignment.
- Potential technological advancements that could facilitate better alignment.
- Comparative analysis of different alignment techniques and their outcomes.
- Methods for text-vision alignment of representations.
- How does the degree of representational alignment between two systems impact their interpretability, and ability to compete, cooperate, and communicate?

