arXiv Machine Learning

Subdomain-aware representation compression for pretrained image embeddings

The paper explores subdomain-aware dimensionality reduction for pretrained image embeddings, applying techniques such as PCA and LDA to compress representations within specific image subdomains. Results show that this targeted compression reduces space and computational complexity while improving accuracy compared to using full embeddings. Additionally, the study demonstrates that the compressed representations retain transfer learning capabilities across tasks.

arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 31

EXPOSE: Explainable and Domain-Robust Embeddings from Pathology Vision Foundation Models using Sparse Autoencoders

EXPOSE is a framework that applies Sparse Autoencoders to Vision Foundation Model embeddings in computational pathology, aiming to separate biological signals from domain‑specific noise. By training a sparse representation of VFM features and using a linear classifier to flag domain‑specific latent dimensions, the method masks these components before downstream relapse prediction, avoiding the need to retrain the backbone model. Experiments on a large prostate cancer dataset demonstrate that removing domain‑specific features improves cross‑domain performance and raises the Domain Robustness Index (DoRI).

By Anja Witte, Maximilian Lennartz, Jan Baumbach, Guido Sauter, Stefan Bonn, Patrick Fuhlert, Marina Zimmermann
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 5

Anchor PCA

arXiv:2606. 06233v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Principal component analysis (PCA) is one of the most widely used unsupervised dimension reduction techniques.

By Benedikt Seiter, Anya Fries, Julius von K\"ugelgen, Jonas Peters
arXiv Machine Learning
4d ago

Are In-Context Images Worth 10 Dimensions?

arXiv:2609.37659v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: There has been significant work on understanding the In-Context Learning capabilities of Large Language Models, especially on the induction circuit....

By Adhemar de Senneville, Xavier Bou, J\'er\'emy Anger, Rafael Grompone, Gabriele Facciolo
Towards Data Science
Jul 14

A Gentle Introduction to Autoencoders & Latent Space

Introduction Heavy computation is a well-known problem in various ML algorithms today, especially when generative AI is applied to text, images, and other unstructured data. One of the principal approaches to mitigate this problem is to compress input data into a lower-dimensional representation while preserving the main context.

By Vyacheslav Efimov