Perceptual Inductive Bias Is What You Need Before Contrastive Learning

ArXi:2506.01201v2 Announce Type: replace 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 forming semantic object representations. In contrast, contrastive representation learning frameworks typically bypass this explicit multi-stage approach, defining their objective as the direct learning of a semantic representation space for objects.