arXiv Machine Learning

Winner-Take-All bottlenecks enforce disentangled symbolic representations in multi-task learning

arXiv:2605. 22472v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Winner-take-all (WTA) networks constitute a central circuit motif in cortical networks of the brain.

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Jun 3

RePercENT: Scaling Disentangled Representation Learning Beyond Two Modalities

To leverage the full potential of multimodal data, we need representations that go beyond the state-of-the-art alignment and fusion approaches and exploit all cross-modal interactions without sacrificing modality-specific information. Learning disentangled representations is a principled way to identify these underlying shared and unique factors that are hidden in observational data.

arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 7

Deep Learning as Neural Low-Degree Filtering: A Spectral Theory of Hierarchical Feature Learning

The paper introduces Neural Low-Degree Filtering (Neural LoFi), a stylized limit of gradient-based training that turns hierarchical feature learning into an explicit iterative spectral procedure. In this framework, each layer independently selects directions with maximal low-degree correlation to the label, providing a tractable surrogate for deep learning and a kernel-space interpretation. Experiments on fully connected and convolutional networks show that Neural LoFi outperforms lazy random-feature baselines, recovers meaningful structured filters, and aligns with early gradient-descent feature discovery on real datasets.

By Yatin Dandi, Matteo Vilucchio, Luca Arnaboldi, Hugo Tabanelli, Florent Krzakala
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 15

Differentiable Clone-Structured Causal Graphs for End-to-End Cognitive Map Learning from Image Sequences

arXiv:2607. 12382v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: How can an agent build a structured map of its world from nothing but an ongoing sequence of raw sensory input and its own movements, especially when natural variation means exact sensory patterns rarely repeat?

By Arash Nikzad, Sasan Sarbishegi, Ali Dasmeh, Muhammad Asif, Parsa Gharavi, Erik Husom, Sagar Sen, Andrew B. Lehr, Olivier Penacchio, Ana Clemente, Tristan M. St\"ober