arXiv:2602. 24012v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Contrastive learning has become a cornerstone of modern representation learning, allowing training with massive unlabeled data for both task-specific and general (foundation) models.
By Roy Betser, Eyal Gofer, Meir Yossef Levi, Guy Gilboa
arXiv:2606. 30625v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Contrastive embedding models trained with scale-invariant losses are typically paired with distance metrics like cosine similarity, effectively ignoring embedding magnitudes.
By Ziwei Su, Junyu Ren, Victor Veitch
arXiv:2510. 02779v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Recent advances have significantly improved our understanding of the generalization performance of gradient descent (GD) methods in deep neural networks.
By Yuanfan Li, Yunwen Lei, Zheng-Chu Guo, Yiming Ying
arXiv:2503. 08038v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: In this paper, we delve deeper into the Kullback-Leibler (KL) Divergence loss and mathematically prove that it is equivalent to the Decoupled Kullback-Leibler (DKL) Divergence loss that consists of (1) a weighted Mean Square Error (wMSE) loss and (2) a Cross-Entropy loss incorporating soft labels.
By Jiequan Cui, Beier Zhu, Qingshan Xu, Zhuotao Tian, Xiaojuan Qi, Bei Yu, Hanwang Zhang, Richang Hong
arXiv:2606. 00262v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: InfoNCE is the standard contrastive learning objective, but its softmax form is not only a computational convenience: it also encodes a statistical assumption about how the top-scoring example is selected.
By Melihcan Erol, Suat Evren, Oktay Ozel, Alexander Morgan, Jongha Jon Ryu, Lizhong Zheng
arXiv:2606. 01304v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Hard negative mining has become the dominant strategy for training retrievers, yet it faces intrinsic limitations: negatives are bounded by corpus availability, selected by retriever score rather than diagnostic value, and increasingly contaminated by false positives as the retriever improves.
By Zhicheng Zhang, Jiwei Tang, Kuicai Dong, Xiaopeng Li, Jieming Zhu, Jingyu Li, Qianhui Zhu, Fengyuan Lu, Wang Jiaheng, Gang Wang, Hai-Tao Zheng, Zhaocheng Du
arXiv:2602. 15438v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: For a broad family of discriminative models that includes autoregressive language models, identifiability results imply that if two models induce the same conditional distributions, then their internal representations are equal up to an invertible linear transformation.
By Beatrix M. G. Nielsen, Emanuele Marconato, Luigi Gresele, Andrea Dittadi, Simon Buchholz
arXiv:2606. 04280v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Contrastive learning has become a leading paradigm for self-supervised representation learning, yet the conditions under which it recovers meaningful latent geometry remain incompletely understood.
By Justinas Zaliaduonis, Patrick Putzky, Till Richter, Sergios Gatidis
arXiv:2606. 28573v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Modern machine learning models are trained by optimizing high-dimensional non-convex empirical risk functions.
By Andrea Montanari, Kangjie Zhou
arXiv:2608. 08489v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Neural network classifiers trained by cross-entropy minimization are highly sensitive to label noise and adversarial contamination.
By Subhabrata Majumdar, Anand Deo, Partha Pratim Saha, Abhik Ghosh
arXiv:2603. 29488v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Cosine similarity is often used to measure the similarity of vector representations of neural network models.
By Beatrix M. G. Nielsen, Andreas Grivas
arXiv:2506. 08774v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Different machine learning models can represent the same underlying concept in different ways.
By Fan Xu, Luis A. Leiva