arxivcs.LG2026-06-30
Making Sense of Touch from the Child's View for Contrastive Learning
Max Whitton, Zecheng Wang, Puchen Liu, Quang Tuan Truong, Shengao Wang, Manaswi Yadamreddy, et al.
Is the sense of touch a mechanism for human babies' learning of visual concepts? If so, can we quantify its importance, and to what extent do babies rely on their sense of touch for visual learning? To approach these questions in a principled way, we propose a structured coding s…