Vision-language representations link food perception to subjective valuation
Yuhi Aoki, Asako Toyama, Michiyo Sugawara, Hiroki Kojima, Yuichi Yamashita, SHINSUKE SUZUKI
The paper shows that a vision-language model better predicts food valuation than vision-only models by encoding higher-level food attributes.
bioRxiv · Nov 4, 2026 · PreprintNeuroscience