BioCLIP 2: Emergent Properties from Scaling Hierarchical Contrastive Learning

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Authors: Jianyang Gu, Samuel Stevens, Elizabeth G Campolongo, Matthew J Thompson, Net Zhang, Jiaman Wu, Andrei Kopanev, Zheda Mai, Alexander E. White, James Balhoff, Wasila Dahdul, Daniel Rubenstein, Hilmar Lapp, Tanya Berger-Wolf, Wei-Lun Chao, Yu Su
Venue: NeurIPS 2025
Track: Spotlight

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Foundation models trained at scale exhibit remarkable emergent behaviors, learning new capabilities beyond their initial training objectives…

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