Smoke and mirrors in causal downstream tasks

R Cadei, L Lindorfer, S Cremer… - Advances in Neural …, 2025 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Abstract Machine Learning and AI have the potential to transform data-driven scientific
discovery, enabling accurate predictions for several scientific phenomena. As many …

SuperAnimal pretrained pose estimation models for behavioral analysis

S Ye, A Filippova, J Lauer, S Schneider, M Vidal… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Quantification of behavior is critical in diverse applications from neuroscience, veterinary
medicine to animal conservation. A common key step for behavioral analysis is first …

Chimpact: A longitudinal dataset for understanding chimpanzee behaviors

X Ma, S Kaufhold, J Su, W Zhu… - Advances in …, 2023 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Understanding the behavior of non-human primates is crucial for improving animal welfare,
modeling social behavior, and gaining insights into distinctively human and phylogenetically …

Elucidating the hierarchical nature of behavior with masked autoencoders

L Stoffl, A Bonnetto, S d'Ascoli, A Mathis - European Conference on …, 2024 - Springer
Natural behavior is hierarchical. Yet, there is a paucity of benchmarks addressing this
aspect. Recognizing the scarcity of large-scale hierarchical behavioral benchmarks, we …

A closer look at benchmarking self-supervised pre-training with image classification

M Marks, M Knott, N Kondapaneni, E Cole… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Self-supervised learning (SSL) is a machine learning approach where the data itself
provides supervision, eliminating the need for external labels. The model is forced to learn …

Computer vision for primate behavior analysis in the wild

R Vogg, T Lüddecke, J Henrich, S Dey… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Advances in computer vision as well as increasingly widespread video-based behavioral
monitoring have great potential for transforming how we study animal cognition and …

Learning Keypoints for Multi-Agent Behavior Analysis using Self-Supervision

D Khalil, C Liu, P Perona, JJ Sun, M Marks - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
The study of social interactions and collective behaviors through multi-agent video analysis
is crucial in biology. While self-supervised keypoint discovery has emerged as a promising …

Of mice and mates: Automated classification and modelling of mouse behaviour in groups using a single model across cages

MPJ Camilleri, RS Bains, CKI Williams - International Journal of Computer …, 2024 - Springer
Behavioural experiments often happen in specialised arenas, but this may confound the
analysis. To address this issue, we provide tools to study mice in the home-cage …

[BOEK][B] Building Reliable Machine Learning Systems for Neuroscience

EK Buchanan - 2024 - search.proquest.com
Neuroscience as a field is collecting more data than at any other time in history. The scale of
this data allows us to ask fundamental questions about the mechanisms of brain function …

Diplomat

I Robinson, G Glidden, N Panchal… - … Vision and Imaging …, 2024 - openjournals.uwaterloo.ca
Recent advances in computer vision have enabled the development of automated animal
behavior observation tools. Despite their generally encouraging performance, multi-animal …