The Platonic Universe: Do Foundation Models See the Same Sky?

arXiv:2509.19453 · astro-ph.IM, cs.LG · Submitted 2025-09-23 · Read on arXiv

astro-ph.IM, cs.LG

Submitted: 2025-09-23

Updated: 2026-09-28

Terminology

• Foundation Model — 3× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Foundation Models — 3× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Alignment — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Transformer — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

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