In this work, we introduce CoCo, a loss function aimed at learning normalized and well-structured representations. The proposed loss encourages intra-class collapse and inter-class contrast while preserving sufficient flexibility for neural networks to approximate geometrically optimal embeddings with large angular separation between classes.
arXiv:2603. 15263v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Self-supervised learning (SSL) has revolutionized representation learning, with Joint-Embedding Architectures (JEAs) emerging as an effective approach for capturing semantic features.
By Konstantinos Almpanakis, Anna Kreshuk
arXiv:2606. 05173v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Masked language modelling (MLM) has been the dominant pre-training objective for text encoders since BERT, yet it encourages representations that are strongly anchored to surface-form token identity rather than deeper semantic structure.
By Aimen Boukhari
arXiv:2607. 23149v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Random Vector Functional Link (RVFL) networks provide an efficient randomized learning framework for classification.
By Yogesh Kumar, Mudasir Ganaie
arXiv:2606. 02172v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Learning discriminative visual representations from distributed, heterogeneous data is a fundamental challenge in Federated Learning (FL).
By Mario Casado-Diez, Alejandro Dopico-Castro, Ver\'onica Bol\'on-Canedo, Bertha Guijarro-Berdi\~nas
Training-free few-shot adaptation methods have gained significant attention recently in the context of Vision-language Models (VLMs). Yet, current benchmarks rely on strong assumptions about the statistics of the adaptation data, e.