Different representation learning objectives recover distinct latent structures from the same psychometric data

Abstract

arXiv:2609.00100v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Psychometric questionnaires contain rich item-level information, yet it remains unclear whether different representation learning objectives recover the same latent organization. We investigated this question using 757 matched teacher-child pairs from the baseline assessment of the Cyprus ProW preschool trial. Behavioral structure was characterized from child SDQ, ASBI, and CBRS item responses using principal component analysis and clustering, yiel