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AINeutralarXiv – CS AI · Jun 46/10

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The Loss Is Not Enough: Sampling Conditions and Inductive Bias in Contrastive Representation Learning

Researchers develop a theoretical framework proving that contrastive learning—a dominant self-supervised AI technique—requires specific sampling diversity conditions to recover meaningful latent geometry. They demonstrate that standard approaches can learn non-orthogonal representations and propose a corrected InfoNCE variant, with experiments showing that architectural inductive bias becomes critical when sampling diversity is limited.

AINeutralarXiv – CS AI · Jun 26/10

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When Softmax Fails at the Top: Extreme Value Corrections for InfoNCE

Researchers propose WEINCE, a modification to InfoNCE contrastive learning that corrects statistical misalignments in how softmax selects top-scoring examples using extreme value theory. The method adds anchor-wise batch statistics without trainable parameters and demonstrates consistent improvements across vision benchmarks.

AINeutralarXiv – CS AI · Feb 275/105

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CWM: Contrastive World Models for Action Feasibility Learning in Embodied Agent Pipelines

Researchers propose Contrastive World Models (CWM), a new approach for training AI agents to better distinguish between physically feasible and infeasible actions in embodied environments. The method uses contrastive learning with hard negative examples to outperform traditional supervised fine-tuning, achieving 6.76 percentage point improvement in precision and better safety margins under stress conditions.