2 papers
cs.LG2026
Making Sense of Touch from the Child's View for Contrastive Learning
Max Whitton, Zecheng Wang, Puchen Liu +12
Is the sense of touch a mechanism for human babies' learning of visual concepts? If so, can we quantify its importance, and to what extent do babies rely on their sense of touch fo…
cs.LG2026
When Softmax Fails at the Top: Extreme Value Corrections for InfoNCE
Melihcan Erol, Suat Evren, Oktay Ozel +3
InfoNCE is the standard contrastive learning objective, but its softmax form is not only a computational convenience: it also encodes a statistical assumption about how the top-sco…