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Optimization Dynamics Imprint Semantic Specificity in Contrastive Embedding Norms

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arXiv:2606. 30625v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Contrastive embedding models trained with scale-invariant losses are typically paired with distance metrics like cosine similarity, effectively ignoring embedding magnitudes.

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