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5 papers

cs.LG2026

Understanding Deep Representation Learning via Layerwise Feature Compression and Discrimination

Peng Wang, Xiao Li, Can Yaras +4

Over the past decade, deep learning has proven to be a highly effective tool for learning meaningful features from raw data. However, it remains an open question how deep networks…

cs.LG2026

Evaluating the Representation Space of Diffusion Models via Self-Supervised Principles

Xiao Li, Yixuan Jia, Zekai Zhang +6

Diffusion models have demonstrated remarkable generative capabilities and have also emerged as powerful self-supervised representation learners, yet the connection between these tw…

cs.LG2026

An Illusion of Unlearning? Assessing Machine Unlearning Through Internal Representations

Yichen Gao, Altay Unal, Akshay Rangamani +1

While numerous machine unlearning (MU) methods have recently been developed with promising results in erasing the influence of forgotten data, classes, or concepts, they are also h…

cs.LG2026

Understanding Representation Dynamics of Diffusion Models via Low-Dimensional Modeling

Xiao Li, Zekai Zhang, Xiang Li +4

Diffusion models, though originally designed for generative tasks, have demonstrated impressive self-supervised representation learning capabilities. A particularly intriguing phen…

cs.LG2025

A Global Geometric Analysis of Maximal Coding Rate Reduction

Peng Wang, Huikang Liu, Druv Pai +4

The maximal coding rate reduction (MCR) objective for learning structured and compact deep representations is drawing increasing attention, especially after its recent usage in…