arXiv cs.LG July 9, 2026 · Papers

Reward Valuation in Vision Language Models: Causal Mechanisms Underlying Anhedonia

arXiv:2607.06626v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent Vision-Language Models capture increasingly complex aspects of human cognition. Here we ask whether this alignment extends to reward valuation, which we assess in a mechanistic framework built on clinical tests that were developed to evaluate anhedonia and motivati