TopoNets: High Performing Vision and Language Models with Brain-Like Topography
Deb, Mayukh, Mainak Deb, N. Apurva Ratan Murty · PubMed · 2025
. TopoNets are the highest performing supervised topographic models to date, exhibiting brain-like properties such as localized feature processing, lower dimensionality, and increased efficiency. TopoNets also predict responses in the brain and replicate the key topographic signatures observed in the brain's visual and language cortices, further bridging the gap between biological and artificial systems. This work establishes a robust and generalizable framework for integrating topography into AI, advancing the development of high performing models that more closely emulate the computational strategies of the human brain.