arXiv:2606. 18509v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reliable generalization in conditional latent variable models requires understanding both identifiability and extrapolation: how observed variation across attributes determines latent structure, and how that structure determines distributions at unseen attributes.
By Soheun Yi, Yizhou Lu, Chandler Squires, Pradeep Ravikumar
arXiv:2606. 04045v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Representation learning is often described as preserving the information in an input that is relevant for prediction.
By Vasileios Sevetlidis
The paper proposes a structured version of the Information Bottleneck (IB) that separates label-relevant structure from within-condition variation using a dual-bottleneck formulation. It introduces a conditional KL term that targets within-condition information, allowing explicit control over nuisance-like variation in learned representations. Experiments demonstrate improved performance in low-data classification and consistent gains on dense prediction tasks.
By Jingyao Zhang, Yuxuan Li, Lu Han, Ali Anaissi, Nguyen H. Tran
arXiv:2511. 22823v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Weakly supervised learning has emerged as a practical alternative to fully supervised learning when complete and accurate labels are costly or infeasible to acquire.
By Miao Zhang, Junpeng Li, Changchun Hua, Yana Yang
arXiv:2503. 21796v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Self-supervised learning has become an increasingly important paradigm in the domain of machine intelligence.
By Alexander Ororbia, Karl Friston, Rajesh P. N. Rao
arXiv:2607. 00006v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Beckmann & Butlin's (2026) ontological framework for the LLM individuation problem inherits an unargued cross-regime co-reference assumption from the persona-vectors literature: that the same direction picks out the same content under prompt-conditioning, gradient-descent fine-tuning, and inference-time steering.
By Shuaizhi Cheng