How many directions does a neural representation use to encode a concept? A common answer repeatedly erases probe directions and reports the stopping count or cumulative removed rank.
arXiv:2608. 11661v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: A multiplicative dual-encoder network computes a real-valued output for a pair of inputs as the inner product of their separate encodings.
By Zijian Zhao, Sen Li
arXiv:2609.38377v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Evaluating the physical consistency of generated videos remains a fundamental challenge. Existing approaches rely on off-the-shelf vision-language mode...
By Max Ku, Jiaojiao Fan, Zekun Hao, Francesco Ferroni, Heng Wang, Wenhu Chen, Ming-Yu Liu, Prithvijit Chattopadhyay
The paper introduces EquiSD, a label‑free training method that exploits scale equivariance to improve metric grounding in vision‑language models. By projecting model predictions onto a scale‑equivariant family and fine‑tuning on the resulting targets, EquiSD boosts a 3B model’s median response slope from 0.66 to 0.94 and raises mean relative accuracy by 9.2 points across simulated scales, with positive transfer to real QuantiPhy videos.
By Kaizhen Tan, Yang Feng, Heqing Du, Siru Tao, Xin Xu, Hanzhe Hong
arXiv:2609. 12259v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Matrix-valued memories make rank the natural budget of a learned representation: the number of independent directions a state spans bounds what it can bind, compose, and track.
By Samuel Larson
arXiv:2601. 09173v5 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Representational similarity analysis and related methods compare the internal geometries of neural networks, but they measure only alignment between spaces, leaving a blind spot -- whether a representation's structure is reliably recoverable, not merely similar.
By Prashant C. Raju
arXiv:2508. 04227v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Vision-language models (VLMs), spanning predictive architectures to generative Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs), have revolutionized artificial intelligence through powerful cross-modal alignment and zero-shot generalization.
By Yuyang Liu, Qiuhe Hong, Linlan Huang, Alexandra Gomez-Villa, Dipam Goswami, Tiantian Peng, Xialei Liu, Joost van de Weijer, Yonghong Tian
arXiv:2606. 05957v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Singular learning theory and information geometry have studied the same parameter spaces in mostly separate vocabularies: the former computes Bayesian invariants in resolved coordinates, the latter works in original coordinates under a non-degeneracy assumption that overparameterised models routinely violate.
By Tejas Pradeep Shirodkar
Metric questions about video require vision-language models to use supplied real-world references to convert visual measurements into physical units. Yet we find that current models use this scale inf...
ActionPiece rethinks how actions are tokenized for autoregressive vision‑language‑action models by introducing physical rank consistency (PRC) to evaluate relational fidelity of reconstructed actions. The method jointly supervises representation learning and quantization to preserve local physical distance rankings, improving both PRC and policy success. Experiments on LIBERO, LIBERO‑Plus, SimplerEnv, and VLA‑Arena show significant gains over baseline tokenizers.
By Shijie Lian, Bin Yu, Zhaolong Shen, Xiaopeng Lin, Yichao Du, Zhirui Zhang, Laurence T. Yang, Kai Chen
arXiv:2607. 06640v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: A learned world model is usually judged by how faithfully it reconstructs its observations or predicts reward, as though quality were something the model simply has or lacks.
By Donna Vakalis
The Platonic Representation Hypothesis (PRH) claims that independently trained models converge on a shared statistical model of reality, yet recent work finds only weak pointwise similarity between mo...