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pith:2025:NZJQEFHLUS7UBAMBDTTDT3ZQMI

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Interpreting the linear structure of vision-language model embedding spaces

Huangyuan Su, Isabel Papadimitriou, Sham Kakade, Stephanie Gil, Thomas Fel

arxiv:2504.11695 v4 · 2025-04-16 · cs.CV · cs.CL · cs.MM

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arxiv: 2504.11695 · arxiv_version: 2504.11695v4 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2504.11695 · pith_short_12: NZJQEFHLUS7U · pith_short_16: NZJQEFHLUS7UBAMB · pith_short_8: NZJQEFHL

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