Many representation learning problems involve directed relations, such as lexical entailment, sentence entailment, ontology hierarchy, and citation links. Standard Euclidean, cosine, and Mahalanobis heads are symmetric, while generic neural scorers can model directionality but provide limited geometric structure.
arXiv:2605. 13352v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Standard dual-encoder vision-language models that map images and text to deterministic points on a shared unit hypersphere through $\ell_2$ normalization typically expose neither \emph{aleatoric} uncertainty (cross-modal ambiguity) nor \emph{epistemic} uncertainty (lack of training-distribution support).
By Mayank Nautiyal, Li Ju, Andreas Hellander, Ekta Vats, Prashant Singh
arXiv:2602. 23665v5 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We present Geodesic Semantic Search (GSS), a retrieval system that learns node-specific Riemannian metrics on citation graphs to enable geometry-aware semantic search.
By Brandon Yee, Lucas Wang, Kundana Kommini
arXiv:2607. 03143v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-language alignment powers open-vocabulary recognition, retrieval, and LVLM grounding, yet natural captions are often underspecified, making similarity brittle and overly confident under paraphrase and omitted details.
By Chengzhen Yu, Canran Xiao, Siyuan Ma, Yang Liu
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:2512. 12477v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Estimating node importance in heterogeneous knowledge graphs is a fundamental problem underlying recommendation, search, and knowledge decision systems.
By Jiawen Chen, Yanyan He, Qi Shao, Mengli Wei, Duxin Chen, Wenwu Yu, Yanlong Zhao