@article{yourcontrastivelearningproblemissecretly, title = {Your contrastive learning problem is secretly a distribution alignment problem}, author = {Zihao Chen and Chi-Heng Lin and Ran Liu and Jingyun Xiao and Eva L Dyer}, year = {2025}, eprint = {2502.20141}, archivePrefix = {arXiv}, url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.20141v1}, }