Not all solutions are created equal: An analytical dissociation of functional and representational similarity in deep linear neural networks
Not all solutions are created equal: An analytical dissociation of functional and representational similarity in deep linear neural networks
Lukas Braun,Erin Grant,Andrew M. Saxe
2025 · DBLP: conf/icml/BraunGS25
International Conference on Machine Learning · 19 Citations
TLDR
This work finds that function and representation are dissociated, allowing representational similarity without functional similarity and vice versa, and suggests that representational alignment reflects computational advantages beyond functional alignment alone.
