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New framework EARL distinguishes two modes of emergent compression in representation learning

Researchers have introduced Emergent Adaptive Representation Learning (EARL), a framework designed to understand the invariance observed in learned representations across biological and artificial neural networks. EARL distinguishes between two modes of emergence: state-space compression, where representations gain predictive power beyond individual network units, and parameter-space compression, where diverse network parameters converge to the same representation. The study found that parameter-space compression emerges early in training, while state-space compression develops later and is tied to learning task-specific temporal structures. AI

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  1. arXiv cs.LG TIER_1 English(EN) · Hardik Rajpal, Dan Goodman ·

    Invariance before structure: two modes of emergent compression in representation learning

    arXiv:2611.07952v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Learned representations show striking invariance across biological and artificial neural networks, with different substrates and variations driven by drift, heterogeneity and initialisation. To understand this invariance, we propose…