2 papers
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…
econ.TH2025
Reserve Matching with Thresholds
Suat Evren
We develop a general framework for reserve systems that allocate scarce resources such as vaccines to unit-demand agents under prioritization and eligibility constraints, along wit…