InfoNCE
InfoNCE and friends: the contrastive objective behind CLIP and SimCLR, its alignment/uniformity decomposition, and the geometry it learns.
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Organizing Randomness: Contrastive Learning in JAX
A block-by-block JAX + Optax implementation of six contrastive losses, each watched as a real animated GIF turning random 2D points into organized embeddings. The runnable companion to "Untangling the Moons."
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Untangling the Moons: A Visual History of Contrastive Learning
Eight contrastive losses, twenty years of history, one interactive playground. Watch pair, triplet, InfoNCE, CLIP, SupCon, SigLIP, alignment+uniformity, and cosine→0 organize 2D points, and see which ones know when to stop.
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Opposite Is Not Different: The Cosine-Similarity Bug in CLIP and Contrastive Learning
Maximum difference between two unit vectors is orthogonality (cos = 0), not opposition (cos = −1). CLIP, InfoNCE, and SimCLR have been optimizing for the wrong target for years.