Tal Golan
talgolanneuro.bsky.social
Tal Golan
@talgolanneuro.bsky.social
Assistant professor @ Ben-Gurion University. Studies and tweets about human and machine vision.
Proud to share our lab’s first paper! Itamar’s work highlights an implicit but impactful tension between maximizing fit to behavioral data and staying sensitive to meaningful differences between neural network models.
Excited to share my first paper: Model–Behavior Alignment under Flexible Evaluation: When the Best-Fitting Model Isn’t the Right One (NeurIPS 2025). link below.
November 20, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Reposted by Tal Golan
Variance partitioning is used to quantify the overlap of two models. Over the years, I have found that this can be a very confusing and misleading concept. So we finally we decided to write a short blog to explain why.
@martinhebart.bsky.social @gallantlab.org
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September 10, 2025 at 4:58 PM
We’re hiring in my dept. (IEM @ Ben-Gurion Univ.)! Tenure-track faculty opening in Robotics, Data/ML, Info Systems, Applied Stats, Production Systems, or Human Factors. www.bgu.ac.il/media/wwfbuc...
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September 14, 2025 at 8:26 AM
Reposted by Tal Golan
Shape-Based Measures Improve Scene Categorization by DNNs.

Morteza Rezanejad's magnus opus finally out in IEEE PAMI. doi.org/10.1109/TPAM...

A super productive and fun collaboration with John Wilder, Allan D. Jepson, Sven Dickinson, and Kaleem Siddiqi.

Read on for a quick summary.
January 9, 2024 at 3:50 PM