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Masked language modeling (MLM), a self-supervised pretraining objective, is widely used in natural language processing for learning text representations. MLM trains a model to predict a random sample of input tokens that have been replaced…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Atsuki Yamaguchi , George Chrysostomou , Katerina Margatina , Nikolaos Aletras

This paper proposes a self-supervised approach to learn universal facial representations from videos, that can transfer across a variety of facial analysis tasks such as Facial Attribute Recognition (FAR), Facial Expression Recognition…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-23 Zhixi Cai , Shreya Ghosh , Kalin Stefanov , Abhinav Dhall , Jianfei Cai , Hamid Rezatofighi , Reza Haffari , Munawar Hayat

To make sense of their surroundings, intelligent systems must transform complex sensory inputs to structured codes that are reduced to task-relevant information such as object category. Biological agents achieve this in a largely autonomous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Robin Weiler , Matthias Brucklacher , Cyriel M. A. Pennartz , Sander M. Bohté

Language identification greatly impacts the success of downstream tasks such as automatic speech recognition. Recently, self-supervised speech representations learned by wav2vec 2.0 have been shown to be very effective for a range of speech…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Andros Tjandra , Diptanu Gon Choudhury , Frank Zhang , Kritika Singh , Alexis Conneau , Alexei Baevski , Assaf Sela , Yatharth Saraf , Michael Auli

Like masked language modeling (MLM) in natural language processing, masked image modeling (MIM) aims to extract valuable insights from image patches to enhance the feature extraction capabilities of the underlying deep neural network (DNN).…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-30 Yixuan Luo , Mengye Ren , Sai Qian Zhang

Masked Image Modeling (MIM) offers a promising approach to self-supervised representation learning, however existing MIM models still lag behind the state-of-the-art. In this paper, we systematically analyze target representations, loss…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Timothée Darcet , Federico Baldassarre , Maxime Oquab , Julien Mairal , Piotr Bojanowski

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

This work explores the effectiveness of masked image modelling for learning representations of retinal OCT images. To this end, we leverage Masked Autoencoders (MAE), a simple and scalable method for self-supervised learning, to obtain a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Theodoros Pissas , Pablo Márquez-Neila , Sebastian Wolf , Martin Zinkernagel , Raphael Sznitman

Recently, self-supervised Masked Autoencoders (MAE) have attracted unprecedented attention for their impressive representation learning ability. However, the pretext task, Masked Image Modeling (MIM), reconstructs the missing local patches,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Feng Liang , Yangguang Li , Diana Marculescu

Recent literature shows that large-scale language modeling provides excellent reusable sentence representations with both recurrent and self-attentive architectures. However, there has been less clarity on the commonalities and differences…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-08-30 Jindřich Libovický , Pranava Madhyastha

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

The success of deep learning heavily relies on large-scale data with comprehensive labels, which is more expensive and time-consuming to fetch in 3D compared to 2D images or natural languages. This promotes the potential of utilizing models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-03 Runpei Dong , Zekun Qi , Linfeng Zhang , Junbo Zhang , Jianjian Sun , Zheng Ge , Li Yi , Kaisheng Ma

We present an efficient method of pretraining large-scale autoencoding language models using training signals generated by an auxiliary model. Originated in ELECTRA, this training strategy has demonstrated sample-efficiency to pretrain…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-19 Payal Bajaj , Chenyan Xiong , Guolin Ke , Xiaodong Liu , Di He , Saurabh Tiwary , Tie-Yan Liu , Paul Bennett , Xia Song , Jianfeng Gao

Supervised deep learning models depend on massive labeled data. Unfortunately, it is time-consuming and labor-intensive to collect and annotate bitemporal samples containing desired changes. Transfer learning from pre-trained models is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-13 Hao Chen , Wenyuan Li , Song Chen , Zhenwei Shi

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

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

Quality assessment and aesthetics assessment aim to evaluate the perceived quality and aesthetics of visual content. Current learning-based methods suffer greatly from the scarcity of labeled data and usually perform sub-optimally in terms…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Qizhi Xie , Kun Yuan , Yunpeng Qu , Mingda Wu , Ming Sun , Chao Zhou , Jihong Zhu

Current self-supervised learning algorithms are often modality-specific and require large amounts of computational resources. To address these issues, we increase the training efficiency of data2vec, a learning objective that generalizes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Alexei Baevski , Arun Babu , Wei-Ning Hsu , Michael Auli

The scarcity of annotated data in specialized domains such as medical imaging presents significant challenges to training robust vision models. While self-supervised masked image modeling (MIM) offers a promising solution, existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Ruilang Wang , Shuotong Xu , Bowen Liu , Runlin Huang , Donglong Chen , Weifeng Su

Pre-training by numerous image data has become de-facto for robust 2D representations. In contrast, due to the expensive data acquisition and annotation, a paucity of large-scale 3D datasets severely hinders the learning for high-quality 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-14 Renrui Zhang , Liuhui Wang , Yu Qiao , Peng Gao , Hongsheng Li