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Efficient task generalization and humanlike face perception in models that learn to discriminate face geometry

2026-02-03

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Artificial deep neural networks (DNNs) can excel at face recognition from 2D photographs where both shape and appearance cues abound; however, DNNs have rarely been challenged to recognize faces strictly based on face geometry. Here, we show that DNNs, even those fine-tuned on face photographs, had almost no generalization performance to a new geometry-based face task, while in the opposite direction, networks fin...

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Literature Corpus work: 116063c7-47bd-5130-a611-a8b4edf92a95
DOI: 10.64898/2026.01.31.703048

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