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This arXiv preprint benchmarks 12 patch-level and 6 slide-level pathology foundation models to test whether independently trained models share a common latent structure that can be aligned. If so, representations could be transferred across models without retraining. The work is a large-scale evaluation rather than a demonstrated breakthrough, so its value depends on whether the reported alignment gains hold on downstream clinical tasks.
MOSAIC: Towards a Universal Latent Space for Computational Pathology Foundation Models
arXiv:2610.33059v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Pathology foundation models (PFMs) differ substantially in architecture, pretraining objective, training data and representation dimensionality, yet it remains unclear whether they learn fundamentally different feature spaces or alternative coordinate systems of a shared underlying representation. We present MOSAIC, a systematic study of latent-space similarity, alignment and interoperability across $12$ patch-level and $6$ slide-level PFMs. We first quantify representational agreement using complementary similarity measures and analyze how architecture, pretraining objective, network depth and magnification influence latent geometry. We then evaluate multiple alignment strategies for mapping independently learned representations into a common latent space. The resulting representations are evaluated through cross-model agreement, retrieval, geometry preservation, and downstream multiple-instance learning across molecular and morphological prediction tasks. MOSAIC provides a unified framework for studying whether heterogeneous PFMs can move beyond representational similarity toward a shared and functionally transferable pathology representation space. Our code, benchmarks and additional results are available at https://researchsubmissions66.github.io/MOSAIC/.
Abstract:Pathology foundation models (PFMs) differ substantially in architecture, pretraining objective, training data and representation dimensionality, yet it remains unclear whether they learn fundamentally different feature spaces or alternative coordinate systems of a shared underlying representation. We present MOSAIC, a systematic study of latent-space similarity, alignment and interoperability across $12$ patch-level and $6$ slide-level PFMs. We first quantify representational agreement using complementary similarity measures and analyze how architecture, pretraining objective, network depth and magnification influence latent geometry. We then evaluate multiple alignment strategies for mapping independently learned representations into a common latent space. The resulting representations are evaluated through cross-model agreement, retrieval, geometry preservation, and downstream multiple-instance learning across molecular and morphological prediction tasks. MOSAIC provides a unified framework for studying whether heterogeneous PFMs can move beyond representational similarity toward a shared and functionally transferable pathology representation space. Our code, benchmarks and additional results are available at this https URL.
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
arXiv:2610.33059 [cs.CV]
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