Off-Manifold Failure Mode
The phenomenon in which a vision encoder's embedding similarity diverges from human-visible semantics when inputs deviate from the natural image manifold, producing systematic semantic mis-mappings.
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SPOOK defines the phenomenon in which a vision encoder's embedding similarity decouples from human-visible semantics when the input deviates from the natural image manifold as the "off-manifold failure mode."
The off-manifold failure mode exists in both language-aligned multimodal encoders (OpenCLIP) and self-supervised vision encoders (DINOv3), suggesting that this vulnerability may be a shared property of the representation geometry of modern vision encoders.
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SPOOK defines the phenomenon in which a vision encoder's embedding similarity decouples from human-visible semantics when the input deviates from the natural image manifold as the "off-manifold failure mode."
50%UnverifiedThe off-manifold failure mode exists in both language-aligned multimodal encoders (OpenCLIP) and self-supervised vision encoders (DINOv3), suggesting that this vulnerability may be a shared property of the representation geometry of modern vision encoders.
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