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cs.LG2025★ 2 cited

Layer by Layer: Uncovering Hidden Representations in Language Models

Oscar Skean, Md Rifat Arefin, Dan Zhao +4

From extracting features to generating text, the outputs of large language models (LLMs) typically rely on the final layers, following the conventional wisdom that earlier layers c…

cs.LG2024★ 4 cited

Does Representation Matter? Exploring Intermediate Layers in Large Language Models

Oscar Skean, Md Rifat Arefin, Yann LeCun +1

Understanding what defines a good representation in large language models (LLMs) is fundamental to both theoretical understanding and practical applications. In this paper, we inve…

cs.LG2023★ 1 cited

FroSSL: Frobenius Norm Minimization for Efficient Multiview Self-Supervised Learning

Oscar Skean, Aayush Dhakal, Nathan Jacobs +1

Self-supervised learning (SSL) is a popular paradigm for representation learning. Recent multiview methods can be classified as sample-contrastive, dimension-contrastive, or asymme…

cs.LG2023

DiME: Maximizing Mutual Information by a Difference of Matrix-Based Entropies

Oscar Skean, Jhoan Keider Hoyos Osorio, Austin J. Brockmeier +1

We introduce an information-theoretic quantity with similar properties to mutual information that can be estimated from data without making explicit assumptions on the underlying d…

cs.LG2021

The Representation Jensen-Rényi Divergence

Jhoan Keider Hoyos Osorio, Oscar Skean, Austin J. Brockmeier +1

We introduce a divergence measure between data distributions based on operators in reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces defined by kernels. The empirical estimator of the divergence i…