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A Theory of Contrastive Learning with Natural Images
Antonio Torralba, Yair Weiss
Why does contrastive learning with simple images and augmentations yield useful representations for downstream tasks? We address this question by analytically computing the optimal…
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What Color is the Sky (for a non-human) ?
Yair Weiss, Ofer Springer
The light of the daytime sky contains a mixture of many colors yet is perceived as blue by human observers. This is largely due to the particular response functions of the human co…
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Is the Modality Gap a Bug or a Feature? A Robustness Perspective
Rhea Chowers, Oshri Naparstek, Udi Barzelay +1
Many modern multi-modal models (e.g. CLIP) seek an embedding space in which the two modalities are aligned. Somewhat surprisingly, almost all existing models show a strong modality…