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cs.CV2026

Explaining Image Similarity with Automatically Extracted Concept Activation Vectors

Isaac Roberts, Petra Bevandic, Alexander Schulz +1

The paper proposes a model‑agnostic method that uses automatically discovered concept activation vectors to explain why two images are considered similar, by perturbing embeddings…

#image similarity#explainability#concept activation vectors#representation learning
stat.ML2026

Doubly Robust Functional Representation Learning for Longitudinal Causal Inference with Irregular Histories

Mengfei Ran, Yifeng Shen, Ruijie Guan

The paper introduces a method called Doubly Robust Functional Representation Learning (DR-FRL) that transforms irregular, time‑varying data into targeted representations for longit…

#causal inference#longitudinal data#functional data analysis#representation learning
cs.CL2026

RepBench: Compiling Benchmarks into Capability Representations for Large Language Models

Yanshi Li, Xueru Bai, Shuman Liu +1

The paper introduces RepBench, a framework that aggregates thousands of benchmark datasets into a large set of probe texts to evaluate capability-aligned representations of large l…

#benchmark compilation#capability probing#representation learning#large language models
cs.LG2026

What Can Latent World Models Know? Physical Parameter Identifiability in Multimodal Predictive Representations

Kaizhen Tan, Xin Xu, Siru Tao +4

The paper investigates which physical properties (mass, drag, stiffness) are encoded in latent world models by using controlled interventions in a simulated multimodal environment…

#latent world models#physical parameter identification#multimodal prediction#representation learning
cs.LG2026

Uncertainty-Guided LLM Semantic Augmentation for Heterogeneous Treatment Effect Estimation

Jialu Xu, Mengkun Liang, Guannan Liu +2

The paper introduces CURL, a method that uses uncertainty estimates to guide a frozen large language model in creating semantic representations for covariates, improving heterogene…

#causal inference#heterogeneous treatment effect#representation learning#large language models
cs.LG2026

Sky sphere representation in language models

Aleksandr Berdnikov, Yevgeny Liokumovich

The paper investigates whether large language models (~100B parameters) contain a decodable representation of the night sky map within their residual streams, showing that most exa…

#language models#representation learning#residual stream analysis#sky map decoding
cs.LG2026

Rethinking EEG-Based Disease Diagnosis: Decoupling Instance Representation Learning from Subject-Level Supervision

Zhiyuan Ma, Zeyuan Li, Zhiyi Lu +7

The paper introduces BridgeMIL, a two-stage method that first learns EEG instance representations without using inherited labels and then applies subject-level supervision via a mu…

#electroencephalography#disease diagnosis#multiple instance learning#self-supervised learning
cs.LG2026

Reinformed Dreamer: An Asymmetric World Model Efficiently Trained through Latent Guidance

Gaspard Lambrechts, Adrien Bolland, Daniel Ebi +1

The paper introduces Reinforced Dreamer, an asymmetric model‑based reinforcement learning algorithm that uses latent guidance to improve representation learning from privileged inf…

#reinforcement learning#model-based rl#asymmetric learning#latent guidance
cs.CL2026

IRIS: Reusable Identity Representations from Frozen LLMs for Entity Alignment

Xinran Liu, Shengtao Li, Shouqian Shi +2

The paper introduces IRIS, a training-free method that uses frozen large language models to generate stable identity signatures for entities, enabling direct similarity-based align…

#entity alignment#knowledge graphs#large language models#representation learning
cs.CL2026

Temporal-Distance JEPA: Plan-Aware Representation Learning for Latent World Model Predictive Control

Jiaxin Bai, Jiaxuan Xiong

The paper introduces Temporal-Distance JEPA, a method that learns a directed temporal cost from offline trajectories to improve latent world model predictive control, enhancing pla…

#representation learning#world models#model predictive control#offline reinforcement learning
cs.SD2026

Probing Spatial Structure in Pretrained Audio Representations

Chuyang Chen, Sivan Ding, Adrian S. Roman +1

The paper introduces SARL, a benchmark for evaluating how pretrained audio models encode spatial information such as source direction and room acoustics, and analyzes the strengths…

#spatial audio#pretrained models#representation learning#benchmark
cs.CV2026

AspectCLIP: Optimizing CLIP Representation Space via Aspect-Guided Consistency Regularization

Yiyang Yao, Shanglin Liu, Jianming Lv +4

The paper introduces AspectCLIP, a method that groups image-text pairs by shared textual aspects and applies consistency regularization within these groups to avoid forcing unrelat…

#contrastive learning#image-text alignment#representation learning#aspect-guided regularization
cs.CV2026

Multimodality as Supervision: Self-Supervised Specialization to the Test Environment via Multimodality

Kunal Pratap Singh, Ali Garjani, Rishubh Singh +6

The paper introduces Test-Space Training, a self‑supervised approach that collects multimodal sensor data directly in a target test environment and uses cross‑modal learning to pre…

#self-supervised learning#multimodal learning#cross-modal prediction#test-time specialization
cs.AI2026

Action QFormer: Structured Representation Shaping under Action Supervision in Vision-Language-Action Models

Yufeng Ji, Wenhao Tang, Haoyi Niu +3

The paper introduces Action QFormer, a query-based interface that reorganizes multimodal information into action-focused representations to improve vision-language-action models, e…

#vision-language models#action supervision#representation learning#multimodal learning
cs.LG2026

Contrastive Conformal Sets

Yahya Alkhatib, Wee Peng Tay

The paper introduces a method that combines contrastive learning with conformal prediction to create learnable geometric sets that guarantee a user‑specified coverage of positive s…

#contrastive learning#conformal prediction#set prediction#uncertainty quantification
eess.SP2026

Comparison of Dimension Reduction Methods for EEG Seizure Detection Using Autonomous AI-Driven Optimization

Annika Stiehl, Vishal Kagade, Nicolas Weeger +3

The paper compares four dimension‑reduction techniques for multichannel EEG seizure detection and uses an autonomous AI framework to jointly optimize the representation and deep‑le…

#eeg seizure detection#dimension reduction#deep learning#autonomous ai optimization
cs.LG2026

Factorized Spectral Representations for Reinforcement Learning

Junyi Wu, Dan Li

The paper introduces FaStR, a method that factorizes the transition kernel of a reinforcement learning environment as a three-way tensor using CP decomposition, learning separate e…

#reinforcement learning#representation learning#spectral methods#tensor decomposition
cs.CV2026

VideoRAE: Taming Video Foundation Models for Generative Modeling via Representation Autoencoders

Zhihao Xie, Junfeng Wu, Xinting Hu +2

VideoRAE is a representation autoencoder that leverages frozen video foundation model features to create compact, generation‑friendly video latents, supporting both continuous diff…

#video generation#representation learning#autoencoders#diffusion models
cs.LG2026

Prime Fourier Embeddings: A Principled Basis for Modular Arithmetic

Hyunsang Hwang, Suhyun Bae, Donghun Lee

The paper proposes Prime Fourier Embeddings, a sinusoidal encoding of integers based on prime indices that makes modular arithmetic operations explicit, and shows theoretically tha…

#representation learning#modular arithmetic#equivariance#harmonic analysis
cs.IR2026

Not Only NTP: Extending Training Signal Coverage for Generative Recommendation

Changhao Li, Shuli Wang, Junwei Yin +6

The paper introduces NONTP, a method that augments next‑token prediction for recommendation models with temporal contrastive learning and trans‑domain learning to capture longer‑ra…

#next-token prediction#temporal contrastive learning#cross-domain recommendation#representation learning
cs.CV2026

UMSS: Towards Unsupervised Multi-modal Semantic Segmentation

Haitian Zhang, Thai Duy Nguyen, Xiangyuan Wang +2

The paper introduces UniM2, an unsupervised framework for multimodal semantic segmentation that learns a shared latent space across sensors using cross‑modal correspondence and a h…

#unsupervised semantic segmentation#multimodal fusion#cross-modal learning#depth perception
cs.CV2026

Contrastive-Augmented Flow Matching for Style-Content Disentanglement

Yusong Li, Pingchuan Ma, Ming Gui +2

The paper proposes Contrastive Augmented Flow Matching (CAtFM), a method that adds contrastive regularization to invertible flow matching to learn disentangled content and style re…

#style-content disentanglement#flow matching#contrastive learning#representation learning
cs.CV2026

Beyond Perceptual Distance: Discrepancy Assessment on Deep Representation for Out-of-Distribution Detection with Diffusion Model

Kun Fang, Zuopeng Yang, Haibo Hu +3

The paper introduces DDR, a method that evaluates the difference between an input image and its diffusion‑model reconstruction using the classifier’s deep feature and logit represe…

#out-of-distribution detection#diffusion models#representation learning#feature discrepancy
cs.LG2026

Contrastive-Collapsed Loss for Flexible and Geometrically Optimal Embeddings and Faster Convergence

Blanca Cano-Camarero, Ángela Fernández-Pascual, José R. Dorronsoro

The paper proposes CoCo, a contrastive-collapsed loss that encourages intra‑class collapse and inter‑class contrast to produce normalized, geometrically optimal embeddings with lar…

#representation learning#loss functions#embedding geometry#tabular classification

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