Composed Historical Image Retrieval by Modeling Temporal Representations
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arXiv:2608.18694v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: While time evolves linearly, the geometry of neural embedding spaces is inherently multi-dimensional, often chaotic, and difficult to interpret. In principle, one could constrain an embedding space to a single temporal dimension; however, such a reduction would sacrifice performance on downstream tasks, as one-dimensional embeddings cannot retain sufficient expressive capacity. This paper asks whether it is possible to learn representations that preserve temporal structure while remaining effective for image and object retrieval, and answers th
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- arXiv:2608.18694v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: While time evolves linearly, the geometry of neural embedding spaces is inherently multi-dimensional, often chaotic, and difficult to interpret.
- In principle, one could constrain an embedding space to a single temporal dimension; however, such a reduction would sacrifice performance on downstream tasks, as one-dimensional embeddings cannot retain sufficient expressive capacity.
- This paper asks whether it is possible to learn representations that preserve temporal structure while remaining effective for image and object retrieval, and answers th
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