Compute Allocation in Bilinear Contrastive Representation Learning via Scaling Laws

arXiv:2606.26617 · cs.LG · Submitted 2026-06-25 · Read on arXiv

cs.LG

Submitted: 2026-06-25

Updated: 2026-10-18

Comments: 50 pages, 5 figures. OpenReview: https://openreview.net/forum?id=VTTkooh2Mu

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Scaling Laws — 4× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Contrastive Learning — 2× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Representation Learning — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes

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