arXiv:2606. 02765v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Model dimension ($d_{model}$) is a fundamental hyperparameter in transformer language models, yet its role in setting the geometric limits of feature representation remains under-explored.
By Alexander Guha
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
arXiv:2608. 15215v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Token-level knowledge distillation (KD) matches two conditional distributions per position, yet the standard objectives compare them pointwise: a Kullback-Leibler gradient is blind to which wrong token receives probability mass.
By Gordei Verbii, Juho Lee
arXiv:2607. 09405v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Similarity search is a primary application of embedding models trained by contrastive learning.
By Nick Whiteley
arXiv:2608. 01263v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: On-policy distillation (OPD) samples trajectories from the current student policy and minimizes token-level divergence between student and teacher next-token distributions at prefixes along those trajectories.
By Leyan Xue, Feng Xiong, Mingjun Ma, Changqing Zhang
arXiv:2607. 28667v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent work has shown that classifying large language models (LLMs)' responses can be distinguished by modeling token embeddings as trajectories of a black-box dynamical system (DS) and comparing prediction residuals of two DSs.
By Mohamed Akrout, Dan Wilson
arXiv:2409. 10094v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Out-of-Distribution (OoD) detection aims to justify whether a given sample is from the training distribution of the classifier-under-protection, i.
By Kun Fang, Zuopeng Yang, Haibo Hu, Xiaolin Huang, Jie Yang, Qinghua Tao
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
Cross-modal knowledge distillation (CMKD) studies how a (large) teacher model trained on one type of data (e. g.
arXiv:2605. 13352v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Standard dual-encoder vision-language models that map images and text to deterministic points on a shared unit hypersphere through $\ell_2$ normalization typically expose neither \emph{aleatoric} uncertainty (cross-modal ambiguity) nor \emph{epistemic} uncertainty (lack of training-distribution support).
By Mayank Nautiyal, Li Ju, Andreas Hellander, Ekta Vats, Prashant Singh
arXiv:2606. 10504v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Cross-modal knowledge distillation (CMKD) studies how a (large) teacher model trained on one type of data (e.
By Trong Khiem Tran, Anh Duc Chu, Quang Hung Pham, Phi Le Nguyen, Trong Nghia Hoang
arXiv:2608. 17203v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Contrastive learning has become a cornerstone of modern representation learning, powering CLIP-style models that underpin text-to-image generation, vision-language models, and retrieval across a rapidly growing range of modalities.
By Andrew Stuart, Florian Wolf