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Self-supervised learning techniques have shown their abilities to learn meaningful feature representation. This is made possible by training a model on pretext tasks that only requires to find correlations between inputs or parts of inputs.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-17 Vishal Keshav , Fabien Delattre

Transfer of pre-trained representations can improve sample efficiency and reduce computational requirements for new tasks. However, representations used for transfer are usually generic, and are not tailored to a particular distribution of…

Prior research on self-supervised learning has led to considerable progress on image classification, but often with degraded transfer performance on object detection. The objective of this paper is to advance self-supervised pretrained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-07 Ceyuan Yang , Zhirong Wu , Bolei Zhou , Stephen Lin

Self-supervised pre-training of large-scale transformer models on text corpora followed by finetuning has achieved state-of-the-art on a number of natural language processing tasks. Recently, Lu et al. (2021, arXiv:2103.05247) claimed that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-28 Danielle Rothermel , Margaret Li , Tim Rocktäschel , Jakob Foerster

Fine-tuning pre-trained robot policies with reinforcement learning (RL) often inherits the bottlenecks introduced by pre-training with behavioral cloning (BC), which produces narrow action distributions that lack the coverage necessary for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Matthew M. Hong , Jesse Zhang , Anusha Nagabandi , Abhishek Gupta

Recent breakthroughs in reasoning models have markedly advanced the reasoning capabilities of large language models, particularly via training on tasks with verifiable rewards. Yet, a significant gap persists in their adaptation to real…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Jiaao Yu , Shenwei Li , Mingjie Han , Yifei Yin , Wenzheng Song , Chenghao Jia , Man Lan

It was shown in literature that speech representations extracted by self-supervised pre-trained models exhibit similarities with brain activations of human for speech perception and fine-tuning speech representation models on downstream…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-14 Hengyu Li , Kangdi Mei , Zhaoci Liu , Yang Ai , Liping Chen , Jie Zhang , Zhenhua Ling

The choice of visual representation is key to scaling generalist robot policies. However, direct evaluation via policy rollouts is expensive, even in simulation. Existing proxy metrics focus on the representation's capacity to capture…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Jiahua Dong , Yunze Man , Pavel Tokmakov , Yu-Xiong Wang

The approximation and convergence properties of implicit neural representations (INRs) are known to be highly sensitive to parameter initialization strategies. While several data-driven initialization methods demonstrate significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Kushal Vyas , Alper Kayabasi , Daniel Kim , Vishwanath Saragadam , Ashok Veeraraghavan , Guha Balakrishnan

Self-supervised instance discrimination is an effective contrastive pretext task to learn feature representations and address limited medical image annotations. The idea is to make features of transformed versions of the same images similar…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-17 Yejia Zhang , Xinrong Hu , Nishchal Sapkota , Yiyu Shi , Danny Z. Chen

Self-supervised pretraining has been observed to be effective at improving feature representations for transfer learning, leveraging large amounts of unlabelled data. This review summarizes recent research into its usage in X-ray, computed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-07 Blake VanBerlo , Jesse Hoey , Alexander Wong

The pretrain-finetune paradigm has shown outstanding performance on many applications of deep learning, where a model is pre-trained on a upstream large dataset (e.g. ImageNet), and is then fine-tuned to different downstream tasks. Though…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Yutong Feng , Jianwen Jiang , Mingqian Tang , Rong Jin , Yue Gao

Self-supervised representation learning~(SSRL) has advanced considerably by exploiting the transformation invariance assumption under artificially designed data augmentations. While augmentation-based SSRL algorithms push the boundaries of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-22 Yi Sui , Tongzi Wu , Jesse C. Cresswell , Ga Wu , George Stein , Xiao Shi Huang , Xiaochen Zhang , Maksims Volkovs

This paper evaluates DINOv3, a recent large-scale self-supervised vision backbone, for visuomotor diffusion policy learning in robotic manipulation. We investigate whether a purely self-supervised encoder can match or surpass conventional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-23 ThankGod Egbe , Peng Wang , Zhihao Guo , Zidong Chen

Training a neural network with a large labeled dataset is still a dominant paradigm in computational histopathology. However, obtaining such exhaustive manual annotations is often expensive, laborious, and prone to inter and Intra-observer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-03 Chetan L. Srinidhi , Seung Wook Kim , Fu-Der Chen , Anne L. Martel

For unsupervised pretraining, mask-reconstruction pretraining (MRP) approaches, e.g. MAE and data2vec, randomly mask input patches and then reconstruct the pixels or semantic features of these masked patches via an auto-encoder. Then for a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-14 Jiachun Pan , Pan Zhou , Shuicheng Yan

An effective technique for obtaining high-quality representations is adding a projection head on top of the encoder during training, then discarding it and using the pre-projection representations. Despite its proven practical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Yihao Xue , Eric Gan , Jiayi Ni , Siddharth Joshi , Baharan Mirzasoleiman

Effectively integrating diverse sensory modalities is crucial for robotic manipulation. However, the typical approach of feature concatenation is often suboptimal: dominant modalities such as vision can overwhelm sparse but critical signals…

Self-supervised learning, which benefits from automatically constructing labels through pre-designed pretext task, has recently been applied for strengthen supervised learning. Since previous self-supervised pretext tasks are based on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-10 Zilin Ding , Yuhang Yang , Xuan Cheng , Xiaomin Wang , Ming Liu

What is the best way to learn a universal face representation? Recent work on Deep Learning in the area of face analysis has focused on supervised learning for specific tasks of interest (e.g. face recognition, facial landmark localization…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-21 Adrian Bulat , Shiyang Cheng , Jing Yang , Andrew Garbett , Enrique Sanchez , Georgios Tzimiropoulos