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alignment and uniformity: a standalone construct

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two measured properties of contrastive representations: positive pairs map close together, and features spread evenly over the hypersphere.

In machine learning, alignment and uniformity refers to two measured properties of contrastive representations: positive pairs map close together, and features spread evenly over the hypersphere. This meaning comes from Wang (2020) in arXiv.[1]

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References

Wang, T., & Isola, P. (2020). Understanding Contrastive Representation Learning through Alignment and Uniformity on the Hypersphere. arXiv. https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2005.10242

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