Target attributes reliably recoverable at k≈10-13, study finds

sineadwilliamso · x · 2026-10-07

The paper's quantitative result: target attributes are already reliably recoverable at k ≈ 10-13, and as k grows, even background object properties become decodable — meaning the top-k outputs commonly exposed by APIs carry substantial scene information beyond what was asked.

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