This work tackles the problem of semi-supervised learning of image classifiers. Our main insight is that the field of semi-supervised learning can benefit from the quickly advancing field of self-supervised visual representation learning. Unifying these two approaches, we propose the framework of self-supervised semi-supervised learning and use it to derive two novel semi-supervised image classification methods. We demonstrate the effectiveness of these methods in comparison to both carefully tuned baselines, and existing semi-supervised learning methods. We then show that our approach and existing semi-supervised methods can be jointly trained, yielding a new state-of-the-art result on semi-supervised ILSVRC-2012 with 10% of labels.
@article{arxiv.1905.03670,
title = {S4L: Self-Supervised Semi-Supervised Learning},
author = {Xiaohua Zhai and Avital Oliver and Alexander Kolesnikov and Lucas Beyer},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1905.03670},
year = {2019}
}