Adopting a human developmental visual diet yields robust and shape-based AI vision

Nature Machine Intelligence, Published online: 24 April 2026; doi:10.1038/s42256-026-01228-6

Lu, Thorat and colleagues report that training AI vision systems with a human-inspired developmental visual diet results in a stronger reliance on shape over texture features, enabling substantially more robust visual inference. This finding points to a resource-efficient path to robust vision.