2 papers
cs.LG2026
Global Minimizers of Sigmoid Contrastive Loss
Kiril Bangachev, Guy Bresler, Iliyas Noman +1
The meta-task of obtaining and aligning representations through contrastive pretraining is steadily gaining importance since its introduction in CLIP and ALIGN. In this paper we th…
math.CO2026
Spectral conditions for spherical two-distance sets
Iliyas Noman, Yuan Yao
A set of points in -dimensional Euclidean space is called a 2-distance set if the set of pairwise distances between the points has cardinality two. The 2-dist…