It Depends on the Dataset: When a Brain-Encoding Model's Predicted Responses Beat Their Visual Backbone for Video Memorability

תקציר מקורי באנגליתarXiv:2607.16292v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Brain-encoding foundation models predict fMRI responses to video, audio, and text well enough to win the Algonauts 2025 challenge. We ask whether their predicted responses, obtained with no scanner, are a useful feature lens for a downstream human-behavior task: forecasting the memorability of short videos. We project each clip into TRIBE v2's predicted cortical space and forecast short-term memorability with ridge regression, against a matched control: the model's own V-JEPA2 visual backbone taken before the brain projection. The answer is dataset-dependent, and cleanly so. Within Memento10k the backbone wins (Spearman 0.594 vs 0.544 for the brain projection); within VideoMem the brain projection wins (0.415 vs 0.368, delta +0.047,