Riemannian Geometry for Pre-trained Language Model Embeddings
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arXiv:2607.07047v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Understanding the geometric structure of pre-trained language model embeddings matters for interpretability and safety. We ask whether sentence-level classification signal lives in the Riemannian geometry of contextual token embeddings, and probe it by extracting per-token pullback metrics from a learned encoder's analytical Jacobian and aggregating them with the Fr\'echet mean on the symmetric positive definite (SPD) manifold; we call this procedure Riemannian Mean Pooling (RMP). Across three datasets with non-trivial linguistic struct
Key takeaways
- arXiv:2607.07047v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Understanding the geometric structure of pre-trained language model embeddings matters for interpretability and safety.
- We ask whether sentence-level classification signal lives in the Riemannian geometry of contextual token embeddings, and probe it by extracting per-token pullback metrics from a learned encoder's analytical Jacobian and aggregating them with the Fr\'echet mean on the symmetric positive definite (SPD) manifold; we call this procedure Riemannian Mean Pooling (RMP).
- Across three datasets with non-trivial linguistic struct
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