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PublishedJuly 28, 2026 at 4:00 AM
What CLIP Knows but Cannot Say: Recovering Negation from Frozen Intermediate Features
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arXiv:2607.23271v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Contrastive vision-language models such as CLIP map semantically opposite phrases (e.g., "a dog" vs. "not a dog") to nearly identical embeddings, rendering them insensitive to negation. We attribute this failure to a phenomenon we call Representation
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