From ebc2e7f5129b81db745ad15e5b78b69a95b9837c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Yuren Hao Date: Sat, 1 Aug 2026 14:11:25 -0500 Subject: Augmentation orbits do not substitute for multiple photographs Four random resized crops per Visual Genome image, segmented independently with their fields averaged, leave the correlation at 0.6559. Closed-world re-renders resample layout, which is nuisance by construction, so averaging removes modality-private variation; random crops perturb framing that self-supervised patch features already absorb, leaving nothing to cancel. Co-Authored-By: Claude --- NATURAL_RESULTS.md | 16 ++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+) (limited to 'NATURAL_RESULTS.md') diff --git a/NATURAL_RESULTS.md b/NATURAL_RESULTS.md index ef7339c..650c77e 100644 --- a/NATURAL_RESULTS.md +++ b/NATURAL_RESULTS.md @@ -86,6 +86,22 @@ PPMI vectors fitted to this corpus beat a general language model's states, echoing the earlier finding that what the model layer shares is the mixed state rather than the isolated encoding. +## Augmentation orbits are not a substitute for multiple photographs + +The closed world made two-sided multi-view observation a protocol +requirement, and Visual Genome carries one photograph per scene, so the +orbit was synthesised: four random resized crops per image, segmented +independently, their fields averaged. The correlation moves from 0.6559 +to 0.6559 -- no gain at four views. + +The mechanism is visible in what each orbit cancels. Re-renders in the +closed world resample layout, which is nuisance by construction, so +averaging over them removes exactly the modality-private variation. +Random crops perturb framing, and self-supervised patch features are +already close to invariant under it, so the average has nothing to +cancel. Multi-view observation, where it matters, means separate +photographs of the same scene rather than transformations of one. + ## Verdict The go/no-go statistic stands at 0.656 against the 0.9 that polynomial -- cgit v1.2.3