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5 papers

cs.CV2026

Aristotelian Manifolds: Leveraging Platonic Perceptual Features for Backpropagation Free Rapid Concept Learning

Michael Karnes, Alper Yilmaz

This paper formalizes and systematically characterizes Aristotelian Manifolds, a generalized structural framework built upon the Platonic Representation Hypothesis. We position hig…

cs.CV2026

Rethinking the Good Enough Embedding for Easy Few-Shot Learning

Michael Karnes, Alper Yilmaz

The field of deep visual recognition is undergoing a paradigm shift toward universal representations. The Platonic Representation Hypothesis suggests that diverse architectures tra…

cs.CV2026

Toward Aristotelian Medical Representations: Backpropagation-Free Layer-wise Analysis for Interpretable Generalized Metric Learning on MedMNIST

Michael Karnes, Alper Yilmaz

While deep learning has achieved remarkable success in medical imaging, the "black-box" nature of backpropagation-based models remains a significant barrier to clinical adoption. T…

cs.CV2022

Network Comparison Study of Deep Activation Feature Discriminability with Novel Objects

Michael Karnes, Alper Yilmaz

Feature extraction has always been a critical component of the computer vision field. More recently, state-of-the-art computer visions algorithms have incorporated Deep Neural Netw…

eess.IV2021

Adaptive Few-Shot Learning PoC Ultrasound COVID-19 Diagnostic System

Michael Karnes, Shehan Perera, Srikar Adhikari +1

This paper presents a novel ultrasound imaging point-of-care (PoC) COVID-19 diagnostic system. The adaptive visual diagnostics utilize few-shot learning (FSL) to generate encoded d…