arXiv Machine Learning

Bootstrap Theory of Representational Emergence: Explanatory Insufficiency as a Driver of Representation Learning and World Models

arXiv:2606. 07303v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Representation learning is central to modern machine learning, enabling transitions from handcrafted features to learned embeddings, latent spaces, foundation models, world models, and digital twins.

arXiv AI
Jun 8

The Latent Space: Foundation, Evolution, Mechanism, Ability, and Outlook

arXiv:2604. 02029v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Latent space is rapidly emerging as a native substrate for language-based models.

By Xinlei Yu, Zhangquan Chen, Yongbo He, Tianyu Fu, Guanting Dong, Cheng Yang, Chengming Xu, Yue Ma, Xiaobin Hu, Zhe Cao, Jie Xu, Guibin Zhang, Jiale Tao, Jiayi Zhang, Siyuan Ma, Kaituo Feng, Haojie Huang, Youxing Li, Ronghao Chen, Huacan Wang, Chenglin Wu, Zikun Su, Xiaogang Xu, Kelu Yao, Kun Wang, Chen Gao, Yue Liao, Ruqi Huang, Tao Jin, Zhucun Xue, Cheng Tan, Jiangning Zhang, Wenqi Ren, Yanwei Fu, Yong Liu, Yu Wang, Xiangyu Yue, Yu-Gang Jiang, Shuicheng Yan
arXiv Machine Learning
2d ago

Emergent Models: Intelligence from Tiny Substrates

arXiv:2608. 14019v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Emergent Models (EMs) are a machine learning paradigm based on simple yet open-ended substrates, such as cellular automata, in which modeling is treated not as the learning of a closed-form input-output map but as the emergence, within simple dynamical systems, of computational behaviors that solve external tasks.

By Giacomo Bocchese, Nicola Giacobbo, Etienne Guichard, James Wiles, Akshaj Devireddy
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 2

World Models: A Comprehensive Survey of Architectures, Methodologies, Reasoning Paradigms, and Applications

arXiv:2606. 00133v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: World models, internal simulators that learn the structure and dynamics of an environment, have emerged as a central paradigm in the pursuit of artificial general intelligence, enabling agents to predict, plan, and reason within learned representations.

By Arif Hassan Zidan, Yi Pan, Hanqi Jiang, Ruiyu Yan, Wei Ruan, Zihao Wu, Lifeng Chen, Weihang You, Xinliang Li, Bowen Chen, Huawen Hu, Peilong Wang, Sizhuang Liu, Jing Zhang, Siyuan Li, Zhengliang Liu, Yu Bao, Lin Zhao, Lichao Sun, Dajiang Zhu, Xiang Li, Jinglei Lv, Quanzheng Li, Wei Liu, Tianming Liu, Wei Zhang
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 14

From Performance to Representational Adequacy: A Representational Bootstrap Framework for Adaptive Biological Systems

arXiv:2606. 01374v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Observable performance is commonly used to characterize biological systems, yet aggregated outputs may remain insufficient for uniquely resolving observational conditions, and richer multivariate representations may retain substantial ambiguity.

By Jacques Raynal, Pierre Slangen, Elsa Raynal, Jacques Margerit