Connecting Neural Models Latent Geometries with Relative Geodesic Representations
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| author | Yu, Hanlin Inal, Berfin Arvanitidis, Georgios Hauberg, Soren Locatello, Francesco Fumero, Marco |
| author_facet | Yu, Hanlin Inal, Berfin Arvanitidis, Georgios Hauberg, Soren Locatello, Francesco Fumero, Marco |
| contents | Neural models learn representations of high-dimensional data on low-dimensional manifolds. Multiple factors, including stochasticities in the training process, model architectures, and additional inductive biases, may induce different representations, even when learning the same task on the same data. However, it has recently been shown that when a latent structure is shared between distinct latent spaces, relative distances between representations can be preserved, up to distortions. Building on this idea, we demonstrate that exploiting the differential-geometric structure of latent spaces of neural models, it is possible to capture precisely the transformations between representational spaces trained on similar data distributions. Specifically, we assume that distinct neural models parametrize approximately the same underlying manifold, and introduce a representation based on the pullback metric that captures the intrinsic structure of the latent space, while scaling efficiently to large models. We validate experimentally our method on model stitching and retrieval tasks, covering autoencoders and vision foundation discriminative models, across diverse architectures, datasets, and pretraining schemes. |
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| spellingShingle | Connecting Neural Models Latent Geometries with Relative Geodesic Representations Yu, Hanlin Inal, Berfin Arvanitidis, Georgios Hauberg, Soren Locatello, Francesco Fumero, Marco Machine Learning Neural models learn representations of high-dimensional data on low-dimensional manifolds. Multiple factors, including stochasticities in the training process, model architectures, and additional inductive biases, may induce different representations, even when learning the same task on the same data. However, it has recently been shown that when a latent structure is shared between distinct latent spaces, relative distances between representations can be preserved, up to distortions. Building on this idea, we demonstrate that exploiting the differential-geometric structure of latent spaces of neural models, it is possible to capture precisely the transformations between representational spaces trained on similar data distributions. Specifically, we assume that distinct neural models parametrize approximately the same underlying manifold, and introduce a representation based on the pullback metric that captures the intrinsic structure of the latent space, while scaling efficiently to large models. We validate experimentally our method on model stitching and retrieval tasks, covering autoencoders and vision foundation discriminative models, across diverse architectures, datasets, and pretraining schemes. |
| title | Connecting Neural Models Latent Geometries with Relative Geodesic Representations |
| topic | Machine Learning |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01599 |