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  1. Do Better Visual Representations Always Lead to Better End-to-End Autonomous Driving?

    Oct 7, 2026Zihao Zhang, Haochen Tian, Tianyu Li +5End-to-End Autonomous DrivingRepresentation Alignment

    Southeast University · OpenDriveLab at The University of Hong Kong · Shenzhen Loop Area Institute

  2. A theory of platonic representations in language models

    Oct 5, 2026Darshil Doshi, Wenjie Zhou, Corinna Elena Wegner +3Multilingual Language ModelsCross-Lingual Representation Alignment

    Johns Hopkins Univeristy · Johns Hopkins University & EPFL

  3. Closing the Context Gap: Activation Alignment for Tabular In-Context Learning

    Oct 5, 2026Yoel ZeldesTabular Foundation ModelsTabular ICL

    Independent Researcher

  4. Representation--Behavior Alignment for Explainable Weakly-Supervised Video Anomaly Detection

    Oct 4, 2026Chao Huang, Pengfei Wei, Kaige Li +4Interpretable Anomaly DetectionRepresentation Alignment

    Sun Yat-sen University · University of Macau

  5. PixelDense: Dense Prediction as Representation Alignment for Pixel Diffusion

    Sep 30, 2026Lehan Yang, Daiqing Qi, Wenhao Zhang +9Diffusion Model AlignmentDiffusion Transformer

    University of Virginia · Michigan State University · Adobe +1

  6. Representation Alignment as a Bottleneck in LLM-Based Retrosynthesis Planning

    Sep 28, 2026Hyunwoo Yoo, Cassie Huang, Haebin Shin +2LLM PlanningSymbolic Planning

    Drexel University · University of Michigan

  7. SignFLIP: A Unified Model for Sign Language Translation and Generation via Stage-wise Alignment at Scale

    Sep 28, 2026Zhaoyi An, Sihan Tan, Youngbae Hwang +2Sign Language TranslationRepresentation Alignment

    Institute of Science Tokyo · Chungbuk National University

  8. What Visual Generators Need from Teachers: Rethinking Representation Alignment

    Sep 28, 2026Yongcong Wang, Hingchin Chen, Mingyu Fan +6Diffusion Model AlignmentDiffusion Transformer

    Central South University · The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology · Tsinghua University +7

  9. A Light Bilevel Refinement Aligns Self-Supervised Representations for Stronger Task-Specific Learning

    Sep 27, 2026Gustav Wagner Zakarias, Zheng-Hua TanFine-TuningBilevel Optimization

    Aalborg University · Pioneer Centre for Artificial Intelligence, Denmark

  10. The Alignment Illusion in Multimodal Large Language Models

    Sep 24, 2026Hong-Han Wang, Yuntao Wang, Hu DingRepresentational Similarity AnalysisMultimodal Large Language Models

    University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China

  11. It's the Geometry, Not the Model: Effective Rank and Subspace Alignment in Functional Connectivity Classification

    Sep 24, 2026Xiao Fan, Jingyuan Li, Yubo Han +6Intrinsic DimensionalityFunctional Connectivity

  12. What Converges in the Platonic Representation Hypothesis? Structure over Geometry

    Sep 23, 2026Junwon You, Mihyun Jang, Sangwoo Mo +1Neural Representation GeometryRepresentation Alignment

    KAIST · POSTECH

  13. Comparing Latent Concept Formation in State Space Models and Transformers via Sparse Autoencoders

    Sep 21, 2026Rithin Nagaraj, Rupa Laalasa Oruganti, Prerna Subhashchandra Kunder +1Transformer InterpretabilityLanguage Modeling

    Department of Computer Science and Engineering PES University Bangalore, India

  14. Displacement Geometry Captures Platonic Shared Reality Across Models and Modalities

    Sep 21, 2026Chenming Shang, Yujin Tang, Jun Jie Ou Yang +3Cross-Modal AlignmentTransfer Learning

    Department of Computer Science, DARTMOUTH COLLEGE

  15. Portable Semantics, Private Dialects: Reuse and Negative Transfer in Latent Communication Between Language-Model Cells

    Sep 12, 2026Narcis MarincatMulti-Agent CommunicationNegative Transfer

    Independent researcher.

  16. StateBridge: Training-free Hidden-state Alignment for Latent Communication in LLM Multi-Agent Systems

    Aug 13, 2026Yanwen Peng, Delvin Ce Zhang, Xi Wang +1Multi-Agent LLM SystemsMulti-Agent Communication

    School of Computer Science, University of Sheffield Sheffield, United Kingdom

  17. Continuous-Latent Predictive Modeling with Semantic Alignment for EEG-Language Foundation Models

    Aug 12, 2026Myeong-Ju Cho, Hye-Bin Shin, Seo-Hyun Lee +1EEG DecodingPredictive Representation Learning

    Department of Brain and Cognitive Engineering, Korea University, Seoul, Republic of Korea · Department of Artificial Intelligence, Korea University, Seoul, Republic of Korea

  18. CRIP: Channel Level Representation Injection for Personalized One-Shot Federated Learning

    Aug 3, 2026Zijian Jiang, Chaoli Sun, Handing Wang +1Non-IID Federated LearningRepresentation Alignment

    School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering, University of Surrey, Guildford, Surrey GU2 7XH, U.K. · School of Computer Science and Technology, Taiyuan University of Science and Technology, Taiyuan 030024, China · School of Artificial Intelligence, Xidian University, Xi’an 710071, China +1

  19. Recognition and Label-Free Adaptation Across Recording Sessions in Surface-EMG Gesture Decoding

    Jul 30, 2026Jethro Odeyemi, W. J. ZhangEMG-Based Gesture RecognitionTest-Time Adaptation

    Division of Biomedical Engineering, University of Saskatchewan, 57 Campus Drive, Saskatoon, SK, S7N 5A9, Canada

  20. REPREC: Representation Driven Parameter-Efficient Recommendation System

    Jul 24, 2026Harshini Kavuru, Dwipam Katariya, Giri Iyengar +3Sequential RecommendationLarge Language Model-Based Recommendation

    The Ohio State University, USA · Capital One, AI Foundations, USA

  21. Online Variance Reduction for Domain Adaptation on Streaming Data

    Jul 22, 2026Andrea NapoliDomain AdaptationMaximum Mean Discrepancy

    Department of Electronics and Computer Science University of Southampton, UK

  22. Variance-reduced Domain Adaptation using Paired Sampling

    Jul 22, 2026Andrea NapoliUnsupervised Domain AdaptationMaximum Mean Discrepancy

    Department of Electronics and Computer Science University of Southampton, UK

  23. Self-supervision drives representational convergence in medical foundation models more than clinical supervision

    Jul 22, 2026Soroosh Tayebi Arasteh, Sebastian Ziegelmayer, Mahshad Lotfinia +4Medical Imaging Foundation ModelsSelf-Supervised Pre-Training

    Lab for AI in Medicine, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany · Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, University Hospital RWTH Aachen, Aachen, Germany · Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, TUM University Clinic, School of Medicine and Health, Klinikum rechts der Isar, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany +4

  24. The Concept of Representation in ML: Beyond Plato and Aristotle

    Jul 20, 2026Gilad Landau, Aviv KerenRepresentation LearningRepresentation Alignment

    University of Oxford · Sett AI

  25. Representation-Aligned Tactile Grounding for Contact-Rich Robotic Manipulation

    Jul 16, 2026Ruilin Chen, Jingkai Jia, Tong Yang +8Contact-Rich Robotic ManipulationVisuo-Tactile Representation Learning

    Shanghai Key Lab of Intelligent Information Processing, College of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, Fudan University · College of Intelligent Robotics and Advanced Manufacturing, Fudan University · TeleAl, China Telecom +2

  26. Fast Whole-Brain, Geometry-Aware Functional Alignment for Cross-Subject Decoding

    Jul 12, 2026Pierre-Louis Barbarant, Florent Meyniel, Bertrand ThirionNeural DecodingNeuroimaging

    Université Paris-Saclay, Inria, CEA, Palaiseau 91120, France · Cognitive Neuroimaging Unit, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, Commissariat à l’Energie Atomique et aux énergies alternatives, Université Paris-Saclay, NeuroSpin center, 91191 Gif/Yvette, France · Institut de neuromodulation, GHU Paris, psychiatrie et neurosciences, centre hospitalier Sainte-Anne, pôle hospitalo-universitaire 15, Université Paris Cité, Paris, France

  27. ALER-TI: Aligned Latent Embedding Retrieval for Time Series Imputation

    Jul 8, 2026Xuan-Thong Truong, Trung-Kien Le, Tung Kieu +2Time Series ImputationRepresentation Alignment

    School of Computer Science, Hanoi University of Science and Technology, Hanoi, Vietnam · Department of Computer Science, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark

  28. Covert Trait Propagation Is Representation Alignment: Mechanistic Evidence from Hidden-Channel Distillation

    Jul 5, 2026Kargi Chauhan, Aditya ShahMechanistic InterpretabilityKnowledge Distillation

    University of California, Santa Cruz · 2Google

  29. Teacher Supervision over Representation Equivalence Classes

    Jul 3, 2026Sang Il HanRepresentation IdentifiabilityLanguage Model Distillation

    Korea University of Technology and Education · Biomonster Co.

  30. GEAR: Guided End-to-End AutoRegression for Image Synthesis

    Jun 30, 2026Bin Lin, Zheyuan Liu, Chenguo Lin +8Vector QuantizationAutoregressive Image Generation

    Peking University · Tencent Hunyuan

  31. Soft Token Alignment for Cross-Lingual Reasoning

    Jun 25, 2026Jiayi He, Jungsoo Park, Wei Xu +1Multilingual Language ModelsCross-Lingual Reasoning in Language Models

    Georgia Institute of Technology

  32. Supervise What Survives: Geometry-Guided VLA Adaptation from Synthetic Robot Videos

    Jun 23, 2026Danze Chen, Yanzhe Chen, Qiming Huang +3Visuomotor Policy LearningVision-Language-Action Models

    Show Lab, National University of Singapore

  33. Subspace-Constrained Federated Learning with Low-Rank Adaptation

    Jun 21, 2026Neranjan Senarath, Rohit Muralitharan, Sadia AsifFederated Learning AggregationNon-IID Federated Learning

    Department of ECSE Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Troy, NY 12180, USA · Department of Computer Science Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Troy, NY 12180, USA

  34. CraBERT: Efficient Phoneme Encoder Pre-Training via Cascade Fusion of Subword Representations for Text-to-Speech

    Jun 15, 2026Dong Yang, Yuki Saito, Wataru Nakata +1Language Model PretrainingRepresentation Learning

    The University of Tokyo, Japan

  35. Learning aligned EEG representations with subject-specific encoders

    Jun 15, 2026Bruna J. Lopes, Gabriel Schwartz, Sylvain Chevallier +2Cross-Subject EEG DecodingMI Classification

    University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil · Université Paris-Saclay, Inria TAU team, LISN-CNRS, France · Institut de neuromodulation, GHU Paris, psychiatrie et neurosciences, centre hospitalier Sainte-Anne, pôle hospitalo-universitaire 15, Université Paris Cité, Paris, France +3

  36. Scalable and Interpretable Representation Alignment with Ordinal Similarity

    Jun 15, 2026Diogo Soares, Pankhil Gawade, Andrea Dittadi +1Representational Similarity AnalysisRepresentation Alignment

    Institute of AI for Health, Helmholtz Munich · School of Computation, Information and Technology, Technical University of Munich · Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Mechanics, University of Warsaw

  37. ERAlign: Energy-based Representation Alignment of GNNs and LLMs on Text-attributed Graphs

    Jun 9, 2026Xianlin Zeng, Fan Xia, Xiangyu ChenGraph Representation LearningCross-Modal Alignment

    Postdoctoral Research Station at China RongTong Academy of Sciences Group Corporation Limited, Beijing, China · Duke University, Durham, NC, USA.

  38. MaskAlign: Token-Subset Representation Alignment for Efficient Diffusion Training

    Jun 7, 2026Lianyu Pang, Tianlin Pan, Cheng Da +5Diffusion Model AlignmentDiffusion Transformer

    The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology · Kuaishou Technology · University of Chinese Academy of Sciences

  39. Representational Similarity and Model Behavior in Multi-Agent Interaction

    Jun 5, 2026Yujin Potter, Seun Eisape, Shiyang Lai +6Representational Similarity AnalysisMulti-Agent Collaboration

    University of California, Berkeley · The University of Chicago, Knowledge Lab · Santa Fe Institute +2

  40. Beyond Output Matching: Preserving Internal Geometry in NVFP4 LLM Distillation

    Jun 4, 2026Fangbo Tu, Junhua Zhao, Chi Liu +4LLM QuantizationKnowledge Distillation

    PayPal, Inc.

  41. A Negative Result on Cross-Model Activation Transfer in a Pythia Multi-Hop Setting

    Jun 2, 2026Peiyan Zhang, Jason XinCausal Interventions in Language ModelsRepresentation Alignment

    Independent Researcher

  42. Forgetting is Not Erasure: Recovering Latent Knowledge via Transport Keys

    Jun 1, 2026Archie ChaudhuryContinual LearningRepresentation Alignment

    Axionic Labs

  43. PlatonicNav: Unveiling Semantic Correspondence in Navigation with Platonic Topological Maps

    Jun 1, 2026Junlin Long, Zeyu Zhang, Xu Deng +5Embodied NavigationVision-Language Navigation

    1USYD · 2Maincode · 3UNSW +1

  44. Logit Distillation on Manifolds: Mapping by Learning

    May 30, 2026Yiru Yang, Junling Wang, Nishant Kumar Singh +2Teacher-Student LearningRepresentation Alignment

    University of Zurich · ETH Zurich · Deutsche Bank Securities

  45. Improving Visual Representation Alignment Generation with GRPO

    May 30, 2026Shentong Mo, Sukmin YunDiffusion Model AlignmentDiffusion Transformer

    Carnegie Mellon University · Hanyang University

  46. MIMO: Multilingual Information Retrieval via Monolingual Objectives

    May 29, 2026Youngjoon Jang, Seongtae Hong, Heuiseok LimContrastive LearningCross-Lingual Representation Alignment

    Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Korea University

  47. SLAD : Shared LoRA Adapters for Task Specific Distillation

    May 28, 2026Reda Bensaid, Yassir Bendou, Vincent Gripon +1Vision Foundation Model AdaptationAdapter Tuning

    IMT Atlantique, Brest, France · Polytechnique Montr´eal, Montr´eal, Canada

  48. SIGMA: Bridging Structural and Distributional Gaps for Vision Foundation Model Adaptation

    May 27, 2026Lingyu Xiong, Jinjin Shi, Xuran Xu +3Vision Foundation Model AdaptationDense Prediction

    Xiaomi Corporation

  49. TopoAlign: Topology-Aware Visual Representation Alignment

    May 25, 2026Xinyuan Yan, Rita Sevastjanova, Mennatallah El-Assady +1Data VisualizationVisual Analytics

    University of Utah · ETH Zürich

  50. Polymorphism Is Rotation: Operational Mechanistic Interpretability from a Two-Layer Transformer to Pythia-70m

    May 23, 2026Jordan F. McCannTransformer InterpretabilityTransformer

    Independent Researcher

  51. Learning Through Noise: Why Subliminal Learning Works and When It Fails

    May 22, 2026Vincent C. Brockers, Roman D. Ventzke, Valentin Neuhaus +2Subliminal LearningCross-Architecture Knowledge Distillation

    Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Göttingen · Faculty of Physics, Institute for the Dynamics of Complex Systems, University of Göttingen

  52. Representation Alignment Rests on Linear Structure

    May 22, 2026Kiril Bangachev, Guy Bresler, Yury PolyanskiyLinear Representation HypothesisCross-Modal Alignment

    Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science · Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  53. Aligned Training: A Parameter-Free Method to Improve Feature Quality and Stability of Sparse Autoencoders (SAE)

    May 18, 2026Michał Brzozowski, Neo Christopher ChungSparse AutoencodersMechanistic Interpretability

    Samsung AI Center, Warsaw, Poland · University of Warsaw, Poland

  54. Beyond Point-Wise Matching: Structural Representation Alignment for Accelerating Diffusion Transformers

    May 16, 2026Shaodong Xu, Zhendong Wang, Litong Gong +4Diffusion Model AlignmentDiffusion Transformer

    University of Science and Technology of China

  55. Ghosted Layers: Unconstrained Activation Alignment for Recovering Layer-Pruned LLMs

    May 15, 2026Vincent-Daniel Yun, Junhyuk Jo, Sai Praneeth Karimireddy +1LLM PruningLLM Compression

    University of Southern California, USA · Inha University, Republic of Korea

  56. Characterizing Universal Object Representations Across Vision Models

    May 13, 2026Florian P. Mahner, Johannes Roth, Ka Chun Lam +3Visual Representation LearningRepresentation Alignment

    Vision and Computational Cognition Group Max Planck Institute Justus-Liebig-University Giessen · Machine Learning Core National Institute of Mental Health Bethesda, MD, USA · Department of Cognitive Science Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, MD, USA

  57. KAST-BAR: Knowledge-Anchored Semantically-Dynamic Topology Brain Autoregressive Modeling for Universal Neural Interpretation

    May 13, 2026Haoning Wang, Wenchao Yang, Shuai Shen +1EEG DecodingMultimodal Pretraining

    School of Automation Science and Electrical Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing, China. · School of Biological Science and Medical Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing, China. · State Key Laboratory of Virtual Reality Technology and Systems, Beihang University, Beijing, China. +1

  58. Improving Human Image Animation via Semantic Representation Alignment

    May 11, 2026Chang Liu, Mengting Chen, Yixuan Huang +5Image-to-Video GenerationVideo Diffusion Models

    School of Artificial Intelligence, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China · Alibaba Group, China

  59. Beyond Language: Format-Agnostic Reasoning Subspaces in Large Language Models

    May 10, 2026Aojie Yuan, Zhiyuan SuLLM InterpretabilityRepresentation Geometry in Language Models

    University of Southern California · 2Duke University

  60. CrystalREPA: Transferring Physical Priors from Universal MLIPs to Crystal Generative Models

    May 9, 2026Chengqian Zhang, Yucheng Jin, Duo Zhang +2Transfer LearningCrystal Structure Generation

    AI for Science Institute, Beijing, China · Center for Data Science, Peking University, Beijing, China · LMAM and School of Mathematical Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China +3