Platonic Representations in the Human Brain: Unsupervised Recovery of Universal Geometry
arXiv:2605.20496v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The Strong Platonic Representation Hypothesis suggests that representational convergence in artificial neural networks can be harnessed constructively: embeddings can be translated across models through a universal latent space without paired data. We ask whether an analogous geometry can be recovered across human brains. Using fMRI data from the Natural Scenes Dataset, we propose a self-supervised encoder that learns subject-specific embeddings from brain data alone by exploiting repeated stimulus presentations. We show that these independently learned spaces can be translated across subjects using unsupervised orthogonal rotations, without paired cross-subject samples or intermediate model representations. Synchronizing pairwise rotations into a single shared latent space further improves cross-subject retrieval. These results provide evidence for a shared geometry in learned representations of human visual responses: subject-specific fMRI embeddings can be aligned across individuals within a common coordinate system.
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Canonical link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.20496