arXiv preprint 2026
Our method improves Top-1 accuracy by more than 1% on SimCLR on the ImageNet100 dataset and consistently outperforms baseline SimCLR variants on CIFAR datasets, supporting our interpretation of the projector's role.
@article{manna2026role,
title={On the Role of the Projector in Contrastive Self-Supervised Learning: Last-Layer Rank Dynamics Drive Representation Quality},
author={Manna, S and Mandal, P and Pal, U and Bhattacharya, S},
journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2609.26334},
year={2026},
url={https://sadimanna.github.io/papers/projector-rank/}
}