arXiv AI By Ninad Daithankar, Alexi Gladstone, Yann LeCun, Heng Ji

You Don't Need Strong Assumptions: Visual Representation Learning via Temporal Differences

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arXiv:2606. 15956v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Progress in AI has largely been driven by methods that assume less.

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