arxivcs.CVcs.AIcs.CLcs.LG2026-07-17
An Exam for Active Observers
Jiarui Zhang, Muzi Tao, Shangshang Wang, Ollie Liu, Xuezhe Ma, Willie Neiswanger
Human vision is a closed loop: gaze is continuously redirected by intermediate hypotheses rather than a single snapshot. Decades of psychophysics and cognitive science have argued that this active observation is essential for a wide range of tasks. Whether today's multimodal larg…