4 papers
The Memory Curse: How Expanded Recall Erodes Cooperative Intent in LLM Agents
Jiayuan Liu, Tianqin Li, Shiyi Du +7
Context window expansion is often treated as a straightforward capability upgrade for LLMs, but we find it systematically fails in multi-agent social dilemmas. Across 7 LLMs and 4…
Perceptual Inductive Bias Is What You Need Before Contrastive Learning
Tianqin Li, Junru Zhao, Dunhan Jiang +3
David Marr's seminal theory of human perception stipulates that visual processing is a multi-stage process, prioritizing the derivation of boundary and surface properties before fo…
Learning More by Seeing Less: Structure First Learning for Efficient, Transferable, and Human-Aligned Vision
Tianqin Li, George Liu, Tai Sing Lee
Despite remarkable progress in computer vision, modern recognition systems remain fundamentally limited by their dependence on rich, redundant visual inputs. In contrast, humans ca…
From Local Cues to Global Percepts: Emergent Gestalt Organization in Self-Supervised Vision Models
Tianqin Li, Ziqi Wen, Leiran Song +3
Human vision organizes local cues into coherent global forms using Gestalt principles like closure, proximity, and figure-ground assignment -- functions reliant on global spatial s…