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Mixing contrastive samples does not make sense when the representation manifold has structure.
Tom McGrath · Designing How AI Grows — Tom McGrath · 2 Sept 2026
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“So if this manifold has structure and you might be taking like contrastive samples or something and mixing them together,”
“it doesn't make sense.”
“makes sense to do so when there is structure in this manifold.”Play from 1:04:04Report a misattribution
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