让AI根据过往经历重新理解相同感知,实现有记忆的视角变化。
Same World, Differently Given: History-Dependent Perceptual Reorganization in Artificial Agents

- 用慢速潜变量动态调节感知编码,使相同输入因历史不同而被不同处理。
- 30次独立实验中,16个通道中有5个方向一致地改变感知权重。
- 该机制可模拟人类般的适应性调整,适合研究具身认知与智能演化。
什么样的内部结构能让人工代理不仅调整行为,还能保持对世界的历史敏感视角?本文提出一种最小化架构:一个缓慢更新的视角潜变量 $g$ 反馈至感知,并通过感知过程自身被更新。这使得相同的观察在不同历史背景下被不同编码。模型在具有固定空间结构和感官扰动的极简网格世界中评估。分析显示:第一,视角潜变量重组感知编码——相同输入因先前经验而不同表示;该重编码在30次独立运行中稳定重现,经多重比较校正后,16个门控维度中有5个方向一致改变。第二,仅自适应自我调制能产生视角潜变量的先增长后稳定动态,其他固定或始终开放更新策略无法实现。第三,扰动历史后即使条件恢复,适应性可塑性仍降低,且趋势方向一致。整体行为保持稳定,表明主要重组发生在感知层面而非行为。这些结果揭示了人工代理中历史依赖视角组织的最小机制。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
What kind of internal organization would allow an artificial agent not only to adapt its behavior, but to sustain a history-sensitive perspective on its world? I present a minimal architecture in which a slow perspective latent $g$ feeds back into perception and is itself updated through perceptual processing. This allows identical observations to be encoded differently depending on the agent's accumulated stance. The model is evaluated in a minimal gridworld with a fixed spatial scaffold and sensory perturbations. Across analyses, three results emerge. First, the perspective latent reorganizes perceptual encoding: identical observations are represented differently depending on prior experience, and this reorganization of salience gating replicates across runs, with five of 16 gating dimensions changing direction consistently across 30 independent runs after correction for multiple comparisons. Second, only adaptive self-modulation yields the characteristic growth-then-stabilization dynamic of the perspective latent, unlike rigid or always-open update regimes. Third, perturbation history is followed by reduced adaptive plasticity after nominal conditions are restored, showing a directionally consistent trend across seeds. Gross behavior remains stable throughout the analysis, suggesting that the dominant reorganization is perceptual rather than behavioral. Together, these findings identify a minimal mechanism for history-dependent perspectival organization in artificial agents.
Thank you to arXiv for use of its open access interoperability. PaperDance 不是 arXiv 官方产品;中文卡片由大模型生成,请以原文为准。