3 papers
cs.CV2025
Monet: Reasoning in Latent Visual Space Beyond Images and Language
Qixun Wang, Yang Shi, Yifei Wang +5
"Thinking with images" has emerged as an effective paradigm for advancing visual reasoning, extending beyond text-only chains of thought by injecting visual evidence into intermedi…
cs.LG2025
An Augmentation Overlap Theory of Contrastive Learning
Qi Zhang, Yifei Wang, Yisen Wang
Recently, self-supervised contrastive learning has achieved great success on various tasks. However, its underlying working mechanism is yet unclear. In this paper, we first provid…
cs.LG2025
Projection Head is Secretly an Information Bottleneck
Zhuo Ouyang, Kaiwen Hu, Qi Zhang +2
Recently, contrastive learning has risen to be a promising paradigm for extracting meaningful data representations. Among various special designs, adding a projection head on top o…