Florian P.
Mahner


I am a PhD Candidate at the Max Planck Research Group Vision and Computational Cognition supervised by Martin Hebart.

My work primarily focuses on representation learning in humans and machines. I combine computational modeling and machine learning with insights from cognitive science to understand the similarities and differences between human and artificial systems. I mostly work on vision, but also use insights from language and other domains.

I am particularly interested in interpretable alignment of representations and how to use insights from cognitive science to improve machine learning models and vice versa. If you are interested in collaborating, feel free to reach out.

2018–2021
MSc in Artificial Intelligence Radboud University Excellent with distinction, top 1%
2013–2017
BSc in Cognitive Science Osnabrück University Excellent
2025
Nature Machine Intelligence
Florian P. Mahner, Lukas Muttenthaler, Umut Güçlü, Martin N. Hebart
2025
Communications Psychology
Johannes Roth, Yunyan Duan, Florian P. Mahner, Philipp Kaniuth, Thomas SA Wallis, Martin N. Hebart
2025
eLife
Philipp Kaniuth, Florian P. Mahner, Jonas Perkuhn, Martin N. Hebart
Python
A Python toolbox for extracting and analyzing deep neural network representations
174 stars · 23 forks
Python
A simple TOML configuration parser for Python projects
22 stars · 3 forks
Python
Code for analyzing object dimensions in humans and DNNs
12 stars · 3 forks
Python
PyTorch implementation of multiple testing corrections
4 stars

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