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most citedOn the Role of Discrete Tokenization in Visual Representation Learning

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cs.CV2026

Mitigating Compounding Error via Video Representation Regularization

Taiye Chen, Qi Zhang, Yisen Wang

Video diffusion-based world models enable long autoregressive video generation for robotics, autonomous driving and simulation tasks, yet sliding-window autoregressive inference su…

cs.AI2026

DWM: Separating World Effects from Actions in Latent World Models

Yi-Ge Zhang, Tianqi Du, Qi Zhang +1

Latent world models underpin much of modern model-based control, yet current action-conditioned formulations supervise the next-latent transition with a single, undifferentiated ta…

cs.AI2026

SAGE: Subgoal-Conditioned Action Generation for Latent World Model Planning

Letian Cheng, Qi Zhang, Yisen Wang

Latent world models have emerged as a powerful planning paradigm by learning action-conditioned predictive dynamics and using them as internal simulators to imagine and evaluate ca…

cs.LG2026

A Generalization Theory for JEPA-Based World Models

Jingyi Cui, Qi Zhang, Hongwei Wen +2

Joint Embedding Predictive Architectures (JEPAs) have emerged as a promising paradigm for world modeling by predicting future representations rather than reconstructing observation…

cs.LG2026

Beyond the Next Step: Variable-Length Latent World Models for Long-Horizon Planning

Tianqi Du, Qi Zhang, Yifei Wang +1

Recently, world models have emerged as a promising paradigm for building intelligent agents by learning predictive models that estimate future environment states conditioned on obs…

cs.LG2026

Leveraging Data Symmetries to Select an Optimal Subset of Training Data under Label Noise

Kumar Shubham, Pavan Karjol, Kiran M K +1

The performance of machine learning models often relies on large labeled datasets; however, data collected from diverse sources can contain label noise. Recent work has shown that,…

cs.LG2025

A Unified Theory of Sparse Dictionary Learning in Mechanistic Interpretability: Piecewise Biconvexity and Spurious Minima

Yiming Tang, Harshvardhan Saini, Zhaoqian Yao +6

As AI models achieve remarkable capabilities across diverse domains, understanding what representations they learn and how they encode concepts has become increasingly important fo…

cs.LG2025

On the Limits of Sparse Autoencoders: A Theoretical Framework and Reweighted Remedy

Jingyi Cui, Qi Zhang, Yifei Wang +1

Sparse autoencoders (SAEs) have recently emerged as a powerful tool for interpreting the features learned by large language models (LLMs). By reconstructing features with sparsely…

cs.LG2025

An Augmentation-Aware Theory for Self-Supervised Contrastive Learning

Jingyi Cui, Hongwei Wen, Yisen Wang

Self-supervised contrastive learning has emerged as a powerful tool in machine learning and computer vision to learn meaningful representations from unlabeled data. Meanwhile, its…

cs.LG2025

An Inclusive Theoretical Framework of Robust Supervised Contrastive Loss against Label Noise

Jingyi Cui, Yi-Ge Zhang, Hengyu Liu +1

Learning from noisy labels is a critical challenge in machine learning, with vast implications for numerous real-world scenarios. While supervised contrastive learning has recently…

cs.LG2025

Difficult Examples Hurt Unsupervised Contrastive Learning: A Theoretical Perspective

Yi-Ge Zhang, Jingyi Cui, Qiran Li +1

Unsupervised contrastive learning has shown significant performance improvements in recent years, often approaching or even rivaling supervised learning in various tasks. However,…

cs.LG2024★ 1 cited

On the Role of Discrete Tokenization in Visual Representation Learning

Tianqi Du, Yifei Wang, Yisen Wang

In the realm of self-supervised learning (SSL), masked image modeling (MIM) has gained popularity alongside contrastive learning methods. MIM involves reconstructing masked regions…

cs.LG2024

Look Ahead or Look Around? A Theoretical Comparison Between Autoregressive and Masked Pretraining

Qi Zhang, Tianqi Du, Haotian Huang +2

In recent years, the rise of generative self-supervised learning (SSL) paradigms has exhibited impressive performance across visual, language, and multi-modal domains. While the va…

cs.LG2024

Non-negative Contrastive Learning

Yifei Wang, Qi Zhang, Yaoyu Guo +1

Deep representations have shown promising performance when transferred to downstream tasks in a black-box manner. Yet, their inherent lack of interpretability remains a significant…

cs.CV2023★ 1 cited

Identifiable Contrastive Learning with Automatic Feature Importance Discovery

Qi Zhang, Yifei Wang, Yisen Wang

Existing contrastive learning methods rely on pairwise sample contrast to learn data representations, but the learned features often lack clear interpretability f…