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Mask-based pretraining has become a cornerstone of modern large-scale models across language, vision, and recently biology. Despite its empirical success, its role and limits in learning data representations have been unclear. In this work,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Mingze Dong , Leda Wang , Yuval Kluger

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

Prompt tuning and adapter tuning have shown great potential in transferring pre-trained vision-language models (VLMs) to various downstream tasks. In this work, we design a new type of tuning method, termed as regularized mask tuning, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Kecheng Zheng , Wei Wu , Ruili Feng , Kai Zhu , Jiawei Liu , Deli Zhao , Zheng-Jun Zha , Wei Chen , Yujun Shen

Self-supervised learning (SSL) methods have become a dominant paradigm for creating general purpose models whose capabilities can be transferred to downstream supervised learning tasks. However, most such methods rely on vast amounts of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Lakshay Sharma , Alex Marin

Pre-training a language model and then fine-tuning it for downstream tasks has demonstrated state-of-the-art results for various NLP tasks. Pre-training is usually independent of the downstream task, and previous works have shown that this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Tanish Lad , Himanshu Maheshwari , Shreyas Kottukkal , Radhika Mamidi

Following the successes in the fields of vision and language, self-supervised pretraining via masked autoencoding of 3D point set data, or Masked Point Modeling (MPM), has achieved state-of-the-art accuracy in various downstream tasks.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Takahiko Furuya

Masked Autoencoders (MAE) have been popular paradigms for large-scale vision representation pre-training. However, MAE solely reconstructs the low-level RGB signals after the decoder and lacks supervision upon high-level semantics for the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-10 Peng Gao , Renrui Zhang , Rongyao Fang , Ziyi Lin , Hongyang Li , Hongsheng Li , Qiao Yu

Recent Self-Supervised Learning (SSL) methods are able to learn feature representations that are invariant to different data augmentations, which can then be transferred to downstream tasks of interest. However, different downstream tasks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-08 Chen Huang , Hanlin Goh , Jiatao Gu , Josh Susskind

We are interested in learning scalable agents for reinforcement learning that can learn from large-scale, diverse sequential data similar to current large vision and language models. To this end, this paper presents masked decision…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Fangchen Liu , Hao Liu , Aditya Grover , Pieter Abbeel

Learning Rate Rewinding (LRR) has been established as a strong variant of Iterative Magnitude Pruning (IMP) to find lottery tickets in deep overparameterized neural networks. While both iterative pruning schemes couple structure and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-01 Advait Gadhikar , Rebekka Burkholz

Masked Autoencoders (MAEs) achieve impressive performance in image classification tasks, yet the internal representations they learn remain less understood. This work started as an attempt to understand the strong downstream classification…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Anika Shrivastava , Renu Rameshan , Samar Agnihotri

We introduce a novel self-supervised learning framework that automatically learns representations from input computer-aided design (CAD) models for downstream tasks, including part classification, modeling segmentation, and machining…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Yifei Li , Kang Wu , Wenming Wu , Xiao-Ming Fu

Masked signal modeling has greatly advanced self-supervised pre-training for language and 2D images. However, it is still not fully explored in 3D scene understanding. Thus, this paper introduces Masked Shape Prediction (MSP), a new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-10 Li Jiang , Zetong Yang , Shaoshuai Shi , Vladislav Golyanik , Dengxin Dai , Bernt Schiele

Inspired by the recent success of sequence modeling in RL and the use of masked language model for pre-training, we propose a masked model for pre-training in RL, RePreM (Representation Pre-training with Masked Model), which trains the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-06 Yuanying Cai , Chuheng Zhang , Wei Shen , Xuyun Zhang , Wenjie Ruan , Longbo Huang

In this paper, we are interested in understanding self-supervised pretraining through studying the capability that self-supervised representation pretraining methods learn part-aware representations. The study is mainly motivated by that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-24 Jie Zhu , Jiyang Qi , Mingyu Ding , Xiaokang Chen , Ping Luo , Xinggang Wang , Wenyu Liu , Leye Wang , Jingdong Wang

Large Language Models (LLMs) are discovered to suffer from accurately retrieving key information. To address this, we propose Mask-Enhanced Autoregressive Prediction (MEAP), a simple yet effective training paradigm that seamlessly…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Xialie Zhuang , Zhikai Jia , Jianjin Li , Zhenyu Zhang , Li Shen , Zheng Cao , Shiwei Liu

Self-supervised learning has emerged as a powerful approach for leveraging large-scale unlabeled data to improve model performance in various domains. In this paper, we explore masked self-supervised pre-training for text recognition…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-31 Martin Kišš , Michal Hradiš

This paper proposes a novel self-supervised learning method for semantic segmentation using selective masking image reconstruction as the pretraining task. Our proposed method replaces the random masking augmentation used in most masked…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Yuemin Wang , Ian Stavness

Speech representation learning plays a vital role in speech processing. Among them, self-supervised learning (SSL) has become an important research direction. It has been shown that an SSL pretraining model can achieve excellent performance…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-20 Yi-Chen Chen , Shu-wen Yang , Cheng-Kuang Lee , Simon See , Hung-yi Lee

Masked Autoencoders (MAE) have demonstrated promising performance in self-supervised learning for both 2D and 3D computer vision. Nevertheless, existing MAE-based methods still have certain drawbacks. Firstly, the functional decoupling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-06 Yang Liu , Chen Chen , Can Wang , Xulin King , Mengyuan Liu
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