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  1. Compact Robot Policies Need Fine-Grained Visual Representations

    Oct 6, 2026Nanhe Chen, Runqiu Yang, Jiawei Tang +2Robot Policy LearningVisual Representation Learning

    X Square Robot · KTH

  2. Loss-Invariant Projections as Passive Probes of Learned Representations

    Oct 5, 2026Akshay Chandrasekhar, Pavlo MelnykNeural Representation GeometryVisual Representation Learning

    Linköping University

  3. Rethinking Multi-Image Re-Representation in Multi-Image Understanding

    Sep 30, 2026Gengyuan Zhang, Xiao Han, Xinyu Xie +2Visual Representation LearningMultimodal CoT Reasoning

    LMU Munich · MCML

  4. Beyond Local Linearity: Scale-Resolved Geometry of Learned Image Encoders

    Sep 30, 2026Jakub Szymkowiak, Wojtek Pałubicki, Kamil AdamczewskiNeural Representation GeometryVisual Representation Learning

    Adam Mickiewicz University in Pozna´n, Poland · IDEAS NCBR, Warsaw, Poland

  5. Function-Space Transformer with Adaptive Anchors

    Sep 29, 2026Guorui Sang, Pedram RooshenasRepresentation LearningVisual Representation Learning

    University of Illinois Chicago

  6. OmniTaskonomy: When Does Visual Generation Improve Visual Understanding?

    Sep 29, 2026Jiaxin Ge, Yiming Qin, Ji Xie +13Image-to-Image TranslationVisual Representation Learning

    University of California, Berkeley · Duke University · Impossible Research +3

  7. Minkowski Attractor Networks: Closed-Form Hyperbolic Flows for Visual Representations

    Sep 29, 2026Zhongping JiVisual Representation LearningHierarchical Representation Learning

  8. V-JEPA Policy: Building Effective World-Action Models on Predictive Visual Latents

    Sep 29, 2026Yang Zhang, Jiangyuan Zhao, Chenyou Fan +4Visual Representation LearningVisuomotor Policy Learning

    Tsinghua University · Shanghai Jiao Tong University · Fudan University +4

  9. Structured Visual Target Learning For Cross-Subject eeg-to-image retrieval

    Sep 29, 2026Salini Yadav, Taveena Lotey, Mickaël Coustaty +2Cross-Subject EEG DecodingVisual Representation Learning

    Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India · University of La Rochelle, France · Indian Institute of Technology (ISM) Dhanbad, India

  10. Early Learning Shapes Later Directions Of Representation Change In Continual Learning

    Sep 28, 2026Yuantao Deng, Jinnuo Liu, Kaizhen Tan +1Neural Representation GeometryVisual Representation Learning

    New York University · Xi’an Jiaotong University

  11. Learning Transferable Reaction Mechanisms from Visual Chemical Knowledge

    Sep 27, 2026Yujian Yuan, Jiaxin Xu, Xin Cai +4Visual Representation LearningTransfer Learning

    The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology · The Chinese University of Hong Kong · University of Edinburgh

  12. VisionHOPE: Visual Backbones as Self-Modifying Learning Systems

    Sep 27, 2026Siran Peng, Tianshuo Zhang, Tianyu Fu +8Visual Representation Learning

    MAIS, CASIA · SAI, UCAS · Mininglamp Technology +1

  13. Conditional Predictive Sufficient Statistics for Visual Representation Learning

    Sep 25, 2026Yuzhou HongVisual Representation LearningPredictive Representation Learning

    Zhejiang Sci-Tech University

  14. IronViT: Toward Efficient Generalist Visual Representation Learning

    Sep 24, 2026Jiaxi Huang, Yueqi Hu, Xin Zhu +13Visual Representation LearningEfficient ViTs

    Robotics Foundation Model Team, Xpeng Inc.

  15. Learning Holographic Reduced Representations with Clifford Variational Autoencoders

    Sep 23, 2026Mohamed Malek Abid, P. Michael FurlongVariational AutoencodersVisual Representation Learning

    Institute of Neuroinformatics, University of Zurich & ETH Zurich · National Research Council Canada & Centre for Theoretical Neuroscience, Systems Design Engineering, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada

  16. Depth-Guided Contrastive Learning for 2D Representations with 3D Spatial Awareness

    Sep 23, 2026Liang Zeng, Maarten VergauwenContrastive LearningVisual Representation Learning

    KU Leuven Belgium

  17. Geometry-Conditioned Visual Place Recognition in Natural Environments

    Sep 23, 2026Walter Nedov, Saimunur Rahman, Kavindie Katuwandeniya +3Visual Representation LearningVisual Place Recognition

    CSIRO Robotics, CSIRO, Australia · Queensland University of Technology, Australia

  18. Virtual Encoders in Multimodal Transformers

    Sep 22, 2026Katsuya Ogata, Yuta NakashimaVisual Representation LearningMultimodal Large Language Models

    The University of Osaka

  19. Canonical locks that encode part-whole hierarchies

    Sep 22, 2026Rajat Modi, Yogesh Singh RawatVisual Representation LearningHierarchical Representation Learning

    Department of Computer Science, University of Central Florida, United States.

  20. Ananke: Contractive Torus Attractor Networks

    Sep 21, 2026Zhongping JiVisual Representation LearningGeometric Representation Learning

  21. What Survives on Real Drawings: Active Sampling, Connectome Wiring, and Matched Baselines in Architectural Document Vision

    Sep 21, 2026Dmitry KuklevVisual Representation LearningImage Matching

    Independent Researcher

  22. The Visual Target Matters: Learning across the Visual Hierarchy for Brain-to-Image Retrieval

    Sep 21, 2026Ye Wang, Haokun Ren, Hong Yu +4Visual Representation LearningEEG-Based Visual Decoding

    School of Artificial Intelligence, Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Chongqing, China · College of Information Science and Technology, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing, China · Department of Land Surveying and Geo-Informatics, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China +1

  23. Rethinking Vision Architectures with Gated Linear Attention and KAN

    Sep 18, 2026Ali Mehizel, Oussama KhaldiVisual Representation LearningVision Transformer

    Department of Applied Statistics, ENSSEA, Kolea, Tipaza, Algeria

  24. Training-Adaptive Convolutional Sparse Coding via Information Bottleneck for Robust Visual Representation

    Sep 16, 2026Meng'en Qin, Yinchen Liu, Mingxuan Cui +1Representation LearningTest-Time Adaptation

    Faculty of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, Shenzhen University of Advanced Technology, Shenzhen, China · School of Mathematical Sciences, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China · School of Mathematics, Shandong University, Jinan, China

  25. Transformation Laws in Neural Representations: Structure, Realisability, and Construction

    Sep 16, 2026Yuan SunNeural Representation GeometryVisual Representation Learning

    School of Mathematical Sciences, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China

  26. InfoTaxa: Information-Calibrated Label-Free Clustering for Fine-Grained Visual Taxonomy

    Sep 15, 2026David Ahmedt-Aristizabal, Mohammad Ali Armin, Lars PeterssonVisual Representation LearningClustering

    Imaging and Computer Vision Group, CSIRO, Australia

  27. Same Encoder, Different Winner: A Paired-View Framework for Cell Painting Encoder Evaluation

    Sep 14, 2026Tim Treis, Nikita Moshkov, Johan Fredin Haslum +2Visual Representation Learning

    Institute of Computational Biology, Helmholtz Munich · School of Computation, Information and Technology, Technical University of Munich · Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard

  28. HiPerViT: A Hierarchical Perceiver-Vision Transformer Architecture for Multi-Scale Texture Recognition

    Sep 11, 2026João Pedro C. A. de Sá, Odemir Martinez BrunoVisual Representation LearningVision Transformer

    Institute of Mathematics and Computer Sciences (ICMC), University of São Paulo (USP), Avenida Trabalhador São-carlense, 400, São Carlos, SP 13566-590, Brazil · São Carlos Institute of Physics (IFSC), University of São Paulo (USP), Avenida Trabalhador São-carlense, 400, São Carlos, SP 13566-590, Brazil

  29. TailProp: content-adaptive light- and heavy-tailed propagation for vision

    Sep 10, 2026Jiahao Kong, Zihan LiVisual Representation LearningImage Classification

    Shandong University

  30. CALIPER: Clean Scenes Cannot Rank Physical Inference in Pretrained Visual Representations

    Sep 8, 2026Aman Mehta, Riya BaviskarPhysical ReasoningVisual Representation Learning

    Independent Researcher

  31. GIFT: Guided Intermediate Feature Training via Action-Oriented Structural Supervision for Robotic Manipulation

    Sep 3, 2026Yupeng Zheng, Xiang Li, Songen Gu +11Visual Representation LearningWorld Models for Robotics

    Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences · Tsinghua University · Fudan University +2

  32. Pix2Rep-v2: Data-Efficient Representation Learning for Dense Medical Imaging Applications

    Sep 1, 2026S. Sifaoui, E. Angelini, S. Toupin +2Representation LearningVisual Representation Learning

    LTCI, Télécom Paris, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, Palaiseau, France · MIRACL.ai Laboratory, Hôpital Universitaire Lariboisière (AP-HP), Paris, France · Université Paris Cité, Inserm MASCOT, Paris, France

  33. On the Design Fundamentals of Pixel Text Representation Learning

    Sep 1, 2026Chaohao Yuan, Ruifeng Yuan, Zhuoxu Huang +4Visual Representation LearningVision-Language Alignment

    1The Chinese University of Hong Kong · 2DAMO Academy, Alibaba Group · 3Fudan University +4

  34. Vision Models Predict Urban Scene Appraisal with Limited Neural Alignment

    Aug 31, 2026Kaizhen Tan, Yuantao DengRepresentational Similarity AnalysisNeural Representation Geometry

    New York University

  35. DINOcular: Self-Supervised Visuospatial Representations

    Aug 27, 2026Farkhat Almukhamedov, Sami Azirar, Hermann BlumVisual Representation LearningGeometric Representation Learning

    Robot Perception and Learning Lab University of Bonn & Lamarr Institute

  36. DDMS: Discriminative Distillation of Multi-view Foundational Features into Single-view Models

    Aug 24, 2026Jeong-gi Kwak, Sho Kagami, Yuki Ono +1Multi-View ConsistencyVisual Representation Learning

    University of British Columbia · Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation · Sony Corporation

  37. UniSpace: Unified Visual Representation and Scalable Multimodal Modeling

    Aug 9, 2026Jinbo Yan, Limeng Qiao, Jie Qin +3Visual Representation LearningUnified Multimodal Models

    Meituan

  38. Support Operation Factorization: Compositional Readout of Frozen Vision Encoders under Controlled Interventions

    Aug 6, 2026Zhongyao Wang, Wanli Ouyang, Taoyong Cui +1Visual Representation LearningRepresentation Disentanglement

    Fudan University · MMLab, The Chinese University of Hong Kong · Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

  39. Learning visual representations for compositional analysis of artworks and photographs

    Aug 6, 2026Fatemeh Behrad, Tinne Tuytelaars, Johan WagemansVisual Representation LearningCompositional Representation Learning

    KU Leuven University Belgium

  40. IRIS: A Visual Cortex-Inspired Framework for Analyzing Orientation Selectivity in Vision Transformers

    Aug 5, 2026Vaishnavi B Mohan, Vijayakrishna Naganoor, Yashas Annadani +1Transformer InterpretabilityVisual Representation Learning

    University of Washington, USA · Microsoft, USA · TU Munich, Germany +1

  41. VaRS-Doc: Interpretation-Aware Variant Representations via Latent Self-Probing for Visual Document Retrieval

    Aug 2, 2026Haocheng Wang, Tongkun Guan, Wei Shen +1Visual Representation LearningLate Interaction Retrieval

    MoE Key Lab of Artificial Intelligence, AI Institute, School of Computer Science, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China

  42. Foveated Probes Recover Localized Binding Information in Vision Foundation Models

    Aug 1, 2026Mateusz Michalkiewicz, Mahsa Baktashmotlagh, Guha BalakrishnanVisual Representation LearningVision Foundation Models

    Rice University, Houston, TX, USA · The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia

  43. Artificial Intelligence for the Characterization of Particles and Fibers by Optical Microscopy

    Aug 1, 2026Simiao Sun, Kenneth Ng, Lynn Lee +6Cross-Modal Knowledge DistillationVisual Representation Learning

    Department of Chemistry, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR · Museum Studies Program, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR · Department of History, City University, Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR +3

  44. RayViT: Ray-Conditioned Visual Representations for Viewpoint-Robust Imitation Learning

    Jul 31, 2026Qian Wang, Longrui Chen, Peiran Sun +8Visual Representation LearningRobot Skill Learning

    Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany · University of Leeds, United Kingdom

  45. Rethinking Pretraining for Specialized Design Data: Evidence from the JONES-19 Cultural Design Dataset

    Jul 31, 2026Alexandros Haridis, Charles ZhouVisual Representation Learning

    Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA

  46. Logographic Character Visual Pretraining via Semantic-based Contrastive Learning

    Jul 30, 2026Daqian Shi, Wei Cao, Xiaoyu Zheng +3Contrastive LearningVisual Representation Learning

    Queen Mary University of London London, UK · Jilin University Changchun, China · King’s College London London, UK +1

  47. Not All Patches are Equal: Sampling Matters for Visible-Infrared Pre-Training

    Jul 22, 2026Qiwei Ma, Bin Deng, Junjie Zhu +5Visual Representation LearningSelf-Supervised Pre-Training

    School of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, Hunan University, Changsha, 410082, Hunan, China · Intelligent Game and Decision Lab, Beijing, 100166, Beijing, China · Yuelushan Center for Industrial Innovation, Changsha, 410082, Hunan, China

  48. Spiking Neural Networks for fMRI-Based Visual Semantic Decoding

    Jul 21, 2026Jiahong Zhang, Jinning Zhao, Sijun Shen +3Visual Representation LearningNeural Decoding

    Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100045, China · School of Artificial Intelligence, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China · State Key Laboratory of Media Convergence and Communication, Communication University of China, Beijing 100024, China

  49. scMIR: a vision-language foundation model for single-cell light microscopy image representation

    Jul 21, 2026Yifan Shang, Jiahui Tan, Xiangxiang Zeng +1Cross-Modal Representation LearningVisual Representation Learning

    Laser Metrology and Biomedicine Lab, Department of Biomedical Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China · State Key Laboratory of Chemo and Biosensing, College of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha 410082, China

  50. Norm or Direction? Decoding Vision Mambas for High-Resolution Vision

    Jul 21, 2026Jin Yu, Juyoun ParkVisual Representation LearningVisual SSMs

    Center for Humanoid Research Korea Institute of Science and Technology

  51. Denoising Models Develop Human-Like Perceptual Illusion Representations Across Architectures

    Jul 19, 2026Gautam Ranka, Paras ChopraVisual Representation Learning

    Lossfunk

  52. Beyond Color Geometry: Evaluating Human-Like Color Representations in Vision Models

    Jul 15, 2026Ayan Igali, Pakizar ShamoiVisual Representation LearningFine-Grained Visual Perception

    School of Information Technology and Engineering Kazakh–British Technical University Almaty, Kazakhstan

  53. TextileNet: Towards Zero-shot Text-style Segmentation of Manuscripts

    Jul 10, 2026Anguelos Nicolaou, Antonella Ambrosio, Desiree Di Donato +1Visual Representation LearningAuthorship Attribution

    University of Graz, Graz, Austria · Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Naples, Italy

  54. Weaving Light and Time: Unified Harmonic-Geometric Representation Learning for Dense RGB-Event Parsing

    Jul 10, 2026Chenxu Peng, Chongtian zhou, Dicheng Liu +5Event-Based VisionVisual Representation Learning

    VCIP, CS, Nankai University · NKIARI, Shenzhen Futian · AAIS, Nankai University

  55. Vision Transformers Learn Gestalt-Like Figure-Ground Cues from Natural Images

    Jul 9, 2026Matthias Tangemann, Benjamin Lo, Zygmunt Pizlo +3Visual Representation LearningVision Transformer

    University of Toronto · 2Vector Institute · 3McGill University +2

  56. Texture Representations in Deep Vision Models: Comparing CNNs, Vision Transformers, and Human Perception

    Jul 9, 2026Ludovica de Paolis, Marco Baroni, Alessandro Laio +1Visual Representation LearningVision Transformer

    Department of Neuroscience, International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA), Trieste, Italy · Department of Language and Translation Sciences, Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona, Spain · ICREA, Barcelona, Spain +1

  57. Unpaired Joint Distribution Modeling via Multi-Scale Image Representations

    Jul 9, 2026Yihang Zou, Hui Zhang, Zuowei Shen +1Visual Representation LearningUnsupervised Representation Learning

    Yau Mathematical Sciences Center and Department of Mathematical Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China · Qiuzhen College, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China · Department of Mathematics, National University of Singapore, Singapore +1

  58. VEIL: How Visual Encoding Hijacking Induces Bias In Vision Models

    Jul 6, 2026Suranjana Sooraj, Xuyang Chen, Madhumitha Venkatesan +1Scientific VisualizationData Visualization

    University of California, Davis

  59. Geometry-aware Depth-guided Representation Learning for Structure-preserving Low-light Image Enhancement

    Jul 6, 2026Fang Gao, Jiongkai Qin, Jiabao Wang +5Image EnhancementVisual Representation Learning

    School of Electrical Engineering, Guangxi University, Nanning, Guangxi 530004, China · School of Rail Transportation, Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu 215500, China

  60. Learning Structured Visual Compositional Representations for Weakly Supervised Referring Expression Comprehension

    Jul 6, 2026Lian Xu, Mohammed Bennamoun, Farid Boussaid +3Visual Representation LearningVision-Language Grounding

    The University of Western Australia · Murdoch University · Sun Yat-sen University +1