Representing Beauty: Towards a Participatory but Objective Latent Aesthetics

ArXi:2510.02869v2 Announce Type: replace-cross What does it mean for a machine to recognize beauty? While beauty remains a culturally and experientially compelling but philosophically elusive concept, deep learning systems increasingly appear capable of modeling aesthetic judgment. In this paper, we explore the capacity of neural networks to represent beauty despite the immense formal diversity of objects for which the term applies.