We propose Rashomon Alignment (RA), a new measure to assess functional similarity between two models. Existing functional similarity measures are distributional, quantifying differences between outputs of models applied to real-world data.
arXiv:2609.39848v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Foundation models are increasingly adopted across a wide range of applications, often serving as core blocks within AI systems. Yet different foundatio...
By Mingyue Ma, Zongbo Han, Changqing Zhang, Guangyu Wang
arXiv:2608. 15402v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Generative model alignment has received broad interest, and significant progress has been made in supervised fine-tuning and inference-time computation.
By Steve Hanneke, Hongao Wang, Mingyue Xu
arXiv:2605. 24782v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: While Vision Foundation Models (VFMs) excel at predictive tasks on satellite imagery, their performance can arise from visual correlations rather than underlying structural invariants, making even perception-based out-of-distribution accuracy a poor proxy for scientific utility.
By Dingling Yao, Andrea Polesello, Adeel Pervez, Caroline Muller, Francesco Locatello
Foundation models are increasingly adopted across a wide range of applications, often serving as core blocks within AI systems. Yet different foundation models may encode the same input from multiple...
arXiv:2505. 20142v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: In deep learning, functional similarity evaluation quantifies the extent to which independently trained models learn similar input--output relationships.
By Ioannis Athanasiadis, Anmar Karmush, Michael Felsberg
arXiv:2606. 17022v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: A central objective of machine learning is to identify structure and patterns in data.
By Gary P. T. Choi, Khanh Dao Duc, Shira Faigenbaum-Golovin, Karen Habermann, Emmanuel Hartman, Christoph von Tycowicz, Chi Zhang, Wenjun Zhao, Felix Zhou
arXiv:2607. 29008v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Modern opaque AI models prize performance over interpretability, which makes testing difficult.
By Tyler Ashoff, Jordan Rodu
arXiv:2606. 09653v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Learned representations across models and modalities often exhibit striking structural similarities, suggesting shared underlying concept decompositions.
By Gr\'egoire Dhimo\"ila, Victor Boutin, Agustin Martin Picard, Thomas Fel, Thomas Serre
arXiv:2602. 06205v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The Platonic Representation Hypothesis suggests that independently trained neural networks converge to increasingly similar latent spaces.
By Akshit Achara, Tatiana Gaintseva, Mateo Mahaut, Pritish Chakraborty, Viktor Stenby Johansson, Melih Barsbey, Emanuele Rodol\`a, Donato Crisostomi
The paper introduces Geometric Anchor Preference Optimization (GAPO), a method that replaces the static reference policy in Direct Preference Optimization with a dynamic, geometry-aware anchor—a small adversarial perturbation of the current policy. GAPO uses this anchor to adaptively reweight preference pairs based on local sensitivity, and defines an Anchor Gap that approximates worst‑case local margin degradation. Experiments show that GAPO improves robustness to noisy supervision while matching or surpassing existing LLM alignment and reasoning benchmarks.
By Youngjae Cho, Jongsuk Kim, Ji-Hoon Kim
arXiv:2606. 27242v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Training-free source selection for LLM families with shared vocabularies arises in scientific string domains such as SMILES, protein, and genomic sequences, where candidate corpora share a tokenizer but differ in prediction targets.
By John Sweeney