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Learning transferable representations from unlabeled time series is crucial for improving performance in data-scarce classification. Existing self-supervised methods often operate at the point level and rely on unidirectional encoding,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Mingyue Cheng , Xiaoyu Tao , Zhiding Liu , Qi Liu , Hao Zhang , Rujiao Zhang , Enhong Chen

We propose Denoising Masked Autoencoder (Deno-MAE), a novel multimodal autoencoder framework for denoising modulation signals during pretraining. DenoMAE extends the concept of masked autoencoders by incorporating multiple input modalities,…

This paper studies a simple extension of image-based Masked Autoencoders (MAE) to self-supervised representation learning from audio spectrograms. Following the Transformer encoder-decoder design in MAE, our Audio-MAE first encodes audio…

Pre-trained Transformers (\eg BERT) have been commonly used in existing dense retrieval methods for parameter initialization, and recent studies are exploring more effective pre-training tasks for further improving the quality of dense…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Kun Zhou , Xiao Liu , Yeyun Gong , Wayne Xin Zhao , Daxin Jiang , Nan Duan , Ji-Rong Wen

Despite its practical importance across a wide range of modalities, recent advances in self-supervised learning (SSL) have been primarily focused on a few well-curated domains, e.g., vision and language, often relying on their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Huiwon Jang , Jihoon Tack , Daewon Choi , Jongheon Jeong , Jinwoo Shin

Masked Autoencoder (MAE) is a notable method for self-supervised pretraining in visual representation learning. It operates by randomly masking image patches and reconstructing these masked patches using the unmasked ones. A key limitation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Han Guo , Ramtin Hosseini , Ruiyi Zhang , Sai Ashish Somayajula , Ranak Roy Chowdhury , Rajesh K. Gupta , Pengtao Xie

Missing input sequences are common in medical imaging data, posing a challenge for deep learning models reliant on complete input data. In this work, inspired by MultiMAE [2], we develop a masked autoencoder (MAE) paradigm for multi-modal,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Ayhan Can Erdur , Christian Beischl , Daniel Scholz , Jiazhen Pan , Benedikt Wiestler , Daniel Rueckert , Jan C Peeken

Audio classification and restoration are among major downstream tasks in audio signal processing. However, restoration derives less of a benefit from pretrained models compared to the overwhelming success of pretrained models in…

Large-scale self-supervised pre-training Transformer architecture have significantly boosted the performance for various tasks in natural language processing (NLP) and computer vision (CV). However, there is a lack of researches on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-06 Peiwang Tang , Xianchao Zhang

This paper shows that masked autoencoders (MAE) are scalable self-supervised learners for computer vision. Our MAE approach is simple: we mask random patches of the input image and reconstruct the missing pixels. It is based on two core…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-21 Kaiming He , Xinlei Chen , Saining Xie , Yanghao Li , Piotr Dollár , Ross Girshick

Strong gravitational lensing can reveal the influence of dark-matter substructure in galaxies, but analyzing these effects from noisy, low-resolution images poses a significant challenge. In this work, we propose a masked autoencoder (MAE)…

Masked AutoEncoder (MAE) has revolutionized the field of self-supervised learning with its simple yet effective masking and reconstruction strategies. However, despite achieving state-of-the-art performance across various downstream vision…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-11 Xiaoyu Yue , Lei Bai , Meng Wei , Jiangmiao Pang , Xihui Liu , Luping Zhou , Wanli Ouyang

Pre-trained Transformer language models (LM) have become go-to text representation encoders. Prior research fine-tunes deep LMs to encode text sequences such as sentences and passages into single dense vector representations for efficient…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-22 Luyu Gao , Jamie Callan

For a complete comprehension of multi-person scenes, it is essential to go beyond basic tasks like detection and tracking. Higher-level tasks, such as understanding the interactions and social activities among individuals, are also crucial.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Mahsa Ehsanpour , Ian Reid , Hamid Rezatofighi

Learning sentence embeddings often requires a large amount of labeled data. However, for most tasks and domains, labeled data is seldom available and creating it is expensive. In this work, we present a new state-of-the-art unsupervised…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-13 Kexin Wang , Nils Reimers , Iryna Gurevych

Recently, significant progress has been made in masked image modeling to catch up to masked language modeling. However, unlike words in NLP, the lack of semantic decomposition of images still makes masked autoencoding (MAE) different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-06 Gang Li , Heliang Zheng , Daqing Liu , Chaoyue Wang , Bing Su , Changwen Zheng

In self-supervised learning, it is challenging to reduce the gap between the enhancement performance on the estimated and target speech signals with existed pre-tasks. In this paper, we propose a multi-task pre-training method to improve…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-01-02 Yi Li , Yang Sun , Syed Mohsen Naqvi

Sparse autoencoders (SAEs) provide a powerful mechanism for decomposing the dense representations produced by Large Language Models (LLMs) into interpretable latent features. We posit that SAEs constitute a natural foundation for Learned…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Thibault Formal , Maxime Louis , Hervé Dejean , Stéphane Clinchant

Dense retrievers utilize pre-trained backbone language models (e.g., BERT, LLaMA) that are fine-tuned via contrastive learning to perform the task of encoding text into sense representations that can be then compared via a shallow…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Zheng Yao , Shuai Wang , Guido Zuccon

Masked Autoencoder~(MAE) is a prevailing self-supervised learning method that achieves promising results in model pre-training. However, when the various downstream tasks have data distributions different from the pre-training data, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-09 Zhili Liu , Kai Chen , Jianhua Han , Lanqing Hong , Hang Xu , Zhenguo Li , James T. Kwok