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Masked Autoencoding (MAE) has emerged as an effective approach for pre-training representations across multiple domains. In contrast to discrete tokens in natural languages, the input for image MAE is continuous and subject to additional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-14 Ronghang Hu , Shoubhik Debnath , Saining Xie , Xinlei Chen

Masked image modeling (MIM) has been recognized as a strong self-supervised pre-training approach in the vision domain. However, the mechanism and properties of the learned representations by such a scheme, as well as how to further enhance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-10 Kevin Zhang , Zhiqiang Shen

Masked autoencoders (MAEs) have established themselves as a powerful method for unsupervised pre-training for computer vision tasks. While vanilla MAEs put equal emphasis on reconstructing the individual parts of the image, we propose to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-26 Leon Sick , Dominik Engel , Pedro Hermosilla , Timo Ropinski

This paper explores Masked Autoencoders (MAE) with Gaussian Splatting. While reconstructive self-supervised learning frameworks such as MAE learns good semantic abstractions, it is not trained for explicit spatial awareness. Our approach,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Jathushan Rajasegaran , Xinlei Chen , Rulilong Li , Christoph Feichtenhofer , Jitendra Malik , Shiry Ginosar

Approximating distributions over complicated manifolds, such as natural images, are conceptually attractive. The deep latent variable model, trained using variational autoencoders and generative adversarial networks, is now a key technique…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-08 Wenju Xu , Shawn Keshmiri , Guanghui Wang

Masked autoencoder (MAE), a simple and effective self-supervised learning framework based on the reconstruction of masked image regions, has recently achieved prominent success in a variety of vision tasks. Despite the emergence of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-09 Lingjing Kong , Martin Q. Ma , Guangyi Chen , Eric P. Xing , Yuejie Chi , Louis-Philippe Morency , Kun Zhang

Deep learning models for medical image classification usually achieve promising results but typically rely on large, annotated datasets or standard transfer learning from ImageNet. Self-Supervised Learning (SSL) has emerged as a powerful…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Joao Batista Florindo , Amanda Pontes de Oliveira Ornelas

This paper studies the potential of distilling knowledge from pre-trained models, especially Masked Autoencoders. Our approach is simple: in addition to optimizing the pixel reconstruction loss on masked inputs, we minimize the distance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-11 Yutong Bai , Zeyu Wang , Junfei Xiao , Chen Wei , Huiyu Wang , Alan Yuille , Yuyin Zhou , Cihang Xie

Whole-slide images are central to digital pathology, yet their extreme size and scarce annotations make self-supervised learning essential. Masked Autoencoders (MAEs) with Vision Transformer backbones have recently shown strong potential…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Raneen Younis , Louay Hamdi , Lukas Chavez , Zahra Ahmadi

Masked autoencoder (MAE) is a promising self-supervised pre-training technique that can improve the representation learning of a neural network without human intervention. However, applying MAE directly to volumetric medical images poses…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-24 Jia-Xin Zhuang , Luyang Luo , Hao Chen

Steered-Mixtures-of-Experts (SMoE) models provide sparse, edge-aware representations, applicable to many use-cases in image processing. This includes denoising, super-resolution and compression of 2D- and higher dimensional pixel data.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-26 Elvira Fleig , Jonas Geistert , Erik Bochinski , Rolf Jongebloed , Thomas Sikora

We introduce a novel masked graph autoencoder (MGAE) framework to perform effective learning on graph structure data. Taking insights from self-supervised learning, we randomly mask a large proportion of edges and try to reconstruct these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-10 Qiaoyu Tan , Ninghao Liu , Xiao Huang , Rui Chen , Soo-Hyun Choi , Xia Hu

Self-supervised learning (SSL) enables learning useful inductive biases through utilizing pretext tasks that require no labels. The unlabeled nature of SSL makes it especially important for whole slide histopathological images (WSIs), where…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Wisdom Oluchi Ikezogwo , Mehmet Saygin Seyfioglu , Linda Shapiro

This paper advocates the use of implicit surface representation in autoencoder-based self-supervised 3D representation learning. The most popular and accessible 3D representation, i.e., point clouds, involves discrete samples of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Siming Yan , Zhenpei Yang , Haoxiang Li , Chen Song , Li Guan , Hao Kang , Gang Hua , Qixing Huang

In this paper, we propose a new self-supervised method, which is called Denoising Masked AutoEncoders (DMAE), for learning certified robust classifiers of images. In DMAE, we corrupt each image by adding Gaussian noises to each pixel value…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-08 Quanlin Wu , Hang Ye , Yuntian Gu , Huishuai Zhang , Liwei Wang , Di He

Neural network approaches to single-channel speech enhancement have received much recent attention. In particular, mask-based architectures have achieved significant performance improvements over conventional methods. This paper proposes a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-22 Bengt J. Borgstrom , Michael S. Brandstein

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

In this work, we explore regions as a potential visual analogue of words for self-supervised image representation learning. Inspired by Masked Autoencoding (MAE), a generative pre-training baseline, we propose masked region autoencoding to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-08 Duy-Kien Nguyen , Vaibhav Aggarwal , Yanghao Li , Martin R. Oswald , Alexander Kirillov , Cees G. M. Snoek , Xinlei Chen

In this article we introduce the notion of Split Variational Autoencoder (SVAE), whose output $\hat{x}$ is obtained as a weighted sum $\sigma \odot \hat{x_1} + (1-\sigma) \odot \hat{x_2}$ of two generated images $\hat{x_1},\hat{x_2}$, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-15 Andrea Asperti , Laura Bugo , Daniele Filippini

Sparse Autoencoders (SAEs) are a powerful dictionary learning technique for decomposing neural network activations, translating the hidden state into human ideas with high semantic value despite no external intervention or guidance.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Albert Miao , Chenliang Zhou , Jiawei Zhou , Cengiz Oztireli