AI RESEARCH

MapFormer: Self-Supervised Learning of Cognitive Maps with Input-Dependent Positional Embeddings

arXiv CS.LG

ArXi:2511.19279v4 Announce Type: replace A cognitive map is an internal model which encodes the abstract relationships among entities in the world, giving humans and animals the flexibility to adapt to new situations, with a strong out-of-distribution (OOD) generalization that current AI systems still do not possess. To bridge this gap, we