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6 papers

cs.CV2026

Debiasing Central Fixation Confounds Reveals a Peripheral "Sweet Spot" for Human-like Scanpaths in Hard-Attention Vision

Pengcheng Pan, Yonekura Shogo, Yasuo Kuniyosh

Human eye movements in visual recognition reflect a balance between foveal sampling and peripheral context. Task-driven hard-attention models for vision are often evaluated by how…

cs.LG2026

Active Inference with a Self-Prior in the Mirror-Mark Task

Dongmin Kim, Hoshinori Kanazawa, Yasuo Kuniyoshi

The mirror self-recognition test evaluates whether a subject touches a mark on its own body that is visible only in a mirror, and is widely used as an indicator of self-awareness.…

cs.CV2026

EVA: Bridging Performance and Human Alignment in Hard-Attention Vision Models for Image Classification

Pengcheng Pan, Yonekura Shogo, Kuniyoshi Yasuo

Optimizing vision models purely for classification accuracy can impose an alignment tax, degrading human-like scanpaths and limiting interpretability. We introduce EVA, a neuroscie…

q-bio.NC2026

Synaptic bundle theory for spike-driven sensor-motor system: More than eight independent synaptic bundles collapse reward-STDP learning

Takeshi Kobayashi, Shogo Yonekura, Yasuo Kuniyoshi

Neuronal spikes directly drive muscles and endow animals with agile movements, but applying the spike-based control signals to actuators in artificial sensor-motor systems inevitab…

cs.CV2025

Emergence of Fixational and Saccadic Movements in a Multi-Level Recurrent Attention Model for Vision

Pengcheng Pan, Yonekura Shogo, Yasuo Kuniyoshi

Inspired by foveal vision, hard attention models promise interpretability and parameter economy. However, existing models like the Recurrent Model of Visual Attention (RAM) and Dee…

cs.AI2025

Emergence of Goal-Directed Behaviors via Active Inference with Self-Prior

Dongmin Kim, Hoshinori Kanazawa, Naoto Yoshida +1

Infants often exhibit goal-directed behaviors, such as reaching for a sensory stimulus, even when no external reward criterion is provided. These intrinsically motivated behaviors…