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The lower-variance conjecture for biased contrastive learners
Contrastive learners estimate objectives using samples that may introduce bias and variance, and biased contrastive learners are contrastive learning methods whose estimators are b…
Conjectureopencontrastive-learning machine-learningarXiv posted 2 days ago
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The competitiveness conjecture for multi-sample NWJ, TUBA and FLO estimators
Let multi-sample versions of the mutual-information estimators $\operatorname{NWJ}$ , $\operatorname{TUBA}$ and $\operatorname{FLO}$ be used in empirical applications such as self-s…
Conjectureopencontrastive-learning mutual-information-estimation self-supervised-learningarXiv posted 2 days ago

The lower-variance conjecture for biased contrastive learners