Geometry as a Missing Axis of Representation Quality: The Variational Geometric Information Bottleneck under Data Scarcity

arXiv:2511.02496 · cs.LG · Submitted 2025-11-04 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2025-11-04

Updated: 2026-10-29

Terminology

• Ablation — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Benchmark — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Consistency — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Generalization — 1× in this paper · explained in 14 episodes
• Generalization Bounds — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Information Bottleneck — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Intrinsic Dimension — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes

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