arXiv Machine Learning

The Information-Theoretic Benefit of Shared Representations under Orthogonality Constraints

arXiv:2606. 16028v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Modern deep learning architectures are increasingly multi-task and multi-modal, using a pretrained foundation model combined with task-specific, fine-tuned models.

arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 19

Expressivity In Multimodal Contrastive Learning

The paper investigates the expressive power of multimodal contrastive learning architectures by treating them as parameterized families of joint density estimators. It shows that the classic two‑tower CLIP model is a universal approximator for two modalities, while a common extension that sums pairwise similarities fails to approximate arbitrary joint distributions when three or more modalities are involved, though it can match all pairwise conditionals. To address this limitation, the authors introduce Hadamard‑CLIP, which adds a single learned weight vector to restore universal approximation for any number of modalities while retaining CLIP’s efficient retrieval capabilities.

By Andrew Stuart, Florian Wolf