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Unsupervised representation learning holds the promise of exploiting large amounts of unlabeled data to learn general representations. A promising technique for unsupervised learning is the framework of Variational Auto-encoders (VAEs).…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-09 Kamal Gupta , Saurabh Singh , Abhinav Shrivastava

Masked Autoencoders (MAE) have shown promising performance in self-supervised learning for both 2D and 3D computer vision. However, existing MAE-style methods can only learn from the data of a single modality, i.e., either images or point…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Ziyu Guo , Renrui Zhang , Longtian Qiu , Xianzhi Li , Pheng-Ann Heng

Autoencoder-based learning has emerged as a staple for disciplining representations in unsupervised and semi-supervised settings. This paper analyzes a framework for improving generalization in a purely supervised setting, where the target…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-01-24 Daniel Jarrett , Mihaela van der Schaar

Scene-agnostic visual inpainting remains very challenging despite progress in patch-based methods. Recently, Pathak et al. 2016 have introduced convolutional "context encoders" (CEs) for unsupervised feature learning through image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-08 Huy V. Vo , Ngoc Q. K. Duong , Patrick Perez

An important challenge in emotion recognition is to develop methods that can leverage unlabeled training data. In this paper, we propose the VQ-MAE-AV model, a self-supervised multimodal model that leverages masked autoencoders to learn…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-05-12 Samir Sadok , Simon Leglaive , Renaud Séguier

Masked Autoencoders (MAE) based on a reconstruction task have risen to be a promising paradigm for self-supervised learning (SSL) and achieve state-of-the-art performance across different benchmark datasets. However, despite its impressive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Qi Zhang , Yifei Wang , Yisen Wang

Deep generative models have made tremendous advances in image and signal representation learning and generation. These models employ the full Euclidean space or a bounded subset as the latent space, whose flat geometry, however, is often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-17 Stefan Schonsheck , Jie Chen , Rongjie Lai

Masked Image Modeling (MIM) has emerged as a promising method for deriving visual representations from unlabeled image data by predicting missing pixels from masked portions of images. It excels in region-aware learning and provides strong…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Yibing Wei , Abhinav Gupta , Pedro Morgado

In this work, we explore self-supervised visual pre-training on images from diverse, in-the-wild videos for real-world robotic tasks. Like prior work, our visual representations are pre-trained via a masked autoencoder (MAE), frozen, and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-10-07 Ilija Radosavovic , Tete Xiao , Stephen James , Pieter Abbeel , Jitendra Malik , Trevor Darrell

Context-based detection methods such as DetectGPT achieve strong generalization in identifying AI-generated text by evaluating content compatibility with a model's learned distribution. In contrast, existing image detectors rely on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Minsuk Jang , Hyunseo Jeong , Minseok Son , Changick Kim

Despite the progresses on pre-trained language models, there is a lack of unified frameworks for pre-trained sentence representation. As such, it calls for different pre-training methods for specific scenarios, and the pre-trained models…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-08-02 Alexander Liu , Samuel Yang

In the field of medical image segmentation, challenges such as indistinct lesion features, ambiguous boundaries,and multi-scale characteristics have long revailed. This paper proposes an improved method named Intensity-Spatial Dual Masked…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-17 Yuexing Ding , Jun Wang , Hongbing Lyu

Self-supervised visual pre-training methods face an inherent tension: contrastive learning (CL) captures global semantics but loses fine-grained detail, while masked image modeling (MIM) preserves local textures but suffers from "attention…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Wenzhao Xiang , Yue Wu , Hongyang Yu , Feng Gao , Fan Yang , Xilin Chen

Recently, self-supervised pre-training has advanced Vision Transformers on various tasks w.r.t. different data modalities, e.g., image and 3D point cloud data. In this paper, we explore this learning paradigm for 3D mesh data analysis based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-22 Yaqian Liang , Shanshan Zhao , Baosheng Yu , Jing Zhang , Fazhi He

Self-supervised representation learning solves auxiliary prediction tasks (known as pretext tasks) without requiring labeled data to learn useful semantic representations. These pretext tasks are created solely using the input features,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-16 Jason D. Lee , Qi Lei , Nikunj Saunshi , Jiacheng Zhuo

Representation learning methods for heterogeneous networks produce a low-dimensional vector embedding for each node that is typically fixed for all tasks involving the node. Many of the existing methods focus on obtaining a static vector…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-28 Ping Wang , Khushbu Agarwal , Colby Ham , Sutanay Choudhury , Chandan K. Reddy

Traditional language models, adept at next-token prediction in text sequences, often struggle with transduction tasks between distinct symbolic systems, particularly when parallel data is scarce. Addressing this issue, we introduce…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-19 Mohammad Hossein Amani , Nicolas Mario Baldwin , Amin Mansouri , Martin Josifoski , Maxime Peyrard , Robert West

Semantic segmentation of satellite imagery is crucial for Earth observation applications, but remains constrained by limited labelled training data. While self-supervised pretraining methods like Masked Autoencoders (MAE) have shown…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-17 John Waithaka , Moise Busogi

Finding an interpretable non-redundant representation of real-world data is one of the key problems in Machine Learning. Biological neural networks are known to solve this problem quite well in unsupervised manner, yet unsupervised…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Denis Kuzminykh , Laida Kushnareva , Timofey Grigoryev , Alexander Zatolokin

The latent space of generative modeling is long dominated by the VAE encoder. The latents from the pretrained representation encoders (e.g., DINO, SigLIP, MAE) are previously considered inappropriate for generative modeling. Recently, RAE…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Hu Yu , Hang Xu , Jie Huang , Zeyue Xue , Haoyang Huang , Nan Duan , Feng Zhao