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Masked image modeling has been demonstrated as a powerful pretext task for generating robust representations that can be effectively generalized across multiple downstream tasks. Typically, this approach involves randomly masking patches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-29 Neelu Madan , Nicolae-Catalin Ristea , Kamal Nasrollahi , Thomas B. Moeslund , Radu Tudor Ionescu

Vision Transformers (ViT) become widely-adopted architectures for various vision tasks. Masked auto-encoding for feature pretraining and multi-scale hybrid convolution-transformer architectures can further unleash the potentials of ViT,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-20 Peng Gao , Teli Ma , Hongsheng Li , Ziyi Lin , Jifeng Dai , Yu Qiao

In this work, we examine the impact of inter-patch dependencies in the decoder of masked autoencoders (MAE) on representation learning. We decompose the decoding mechanism for masked reconstruction into self-attention between mask tokens…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-11 Letian Fu , Long Lian , Renhao Wang , Baifeng Shi , Xudong Wang , Adam Yala , Trevor Darrell , Alexei A. Efros , Ken Goldberg

Masked Autoencoders (MAE) based on a reconstruction task have risen to be a promising paradigm for self-supervised learning (SSL) and achieve state-of-the-art performance across different benchmark datasets. However, despite its impressive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Qi Zhang , Yifei Wang , Yisen Wang

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

Masked Autoencoders (MAE) have shown great potentials in self-supervised pre-training for language and 2D image transformers. However, it still remains an open question on how to exploit masked autoencoding for learning 3D representations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-17 Renrui Zhang , Ziyu Guo , Rongyao Fang , Bin Zhao , Dong Wang , Yu Qiao , Hongsheng Li , Peng Gao

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…

Class Incremental Learning (CIL) aims to sequentially learn new classes while avoiding catastrophic forgetting of previous knowledge. We propose to use Masked Autoencoders (MAEs) as efficient learners for CIL. MAEs were originally designed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-25 Jiang-Tian Zhai , Xialei Liu , Andrew D. Bagdanov , Ke Li , Ming-Ming Cheng

Masked Autoencoder (MAE) is a self-supervised approach for representation learning, widely applicable to a variety of downstream tasks in computer vision. In spite of its success, it is still not fully uncovered what and how MAE exactly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Jeongwoo Shin , Inseo Lee , Junho Lee , Joonseok Lee

We propose ViC-MAE, a model that combines both Masked AutoEncoders (MAE) and contrastive learning. ViC-MAE is trained using a global featured obtained by pooling the local representations learned under an MAE reconstruction loss and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-04 Jefferson Hernandez , Ruben Villegas , Vicente Ordonez

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), 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

This paper explores improvements to the masked image modeling (MIM) paradigm. The MIM paradigm enables the model to learn the main object features of the image by masking the input image and predicting the masked part by the unmasked part.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Jiawei Mao , Xuesong Yin , Yuanqi Chang , Honggu Zhou

Image and video restoration has achieved a remarkable leap with the advent of deep learning. The success of deep learning paradigm lies in three key components: data, model, and loss. Currently, many efforts have been devoted to the first…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-30 Man Zhou , Naishan Zheng , Jie Huang , Chunle Guo , Chongyi Li

Vision Transformer (ViT) suffers from data scarcity in semi-supervised learning (SSL). To alleviate this issue, inspired by masked autoencoder (MAE), which is a data-efficient self-supervised learner, we propose Semi-MAE, a pure ViT-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-05 Haojie Yu , Kang Zhao , Xiaoming Xu

Videos captured from multiple viewpoints can help in perceiving the 3D structure of the world and benefit computer vision tasks such as action recognition, tracking, etc. In this paper, we present a method for self-supervised learning from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Ketul Shah , Robert Crandall , Jie Xu , Peng Zhou , Marian George , Mayank Bansal , Rama Chellappa

Masked Autoencoders (MAEs) have emerged as a powerful pretraining technique for vision foundation models. Despite their effectiveness, they require extensive hyperparameter tuning (masking ratio, patch size, encoder/decoder layers) when…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Anthony Bisulco , Rahul Ramesh , Randall Balestriero , Pratik Chaudhari

Prior work using Masked Autoencoders (MAEs) typically relies on random patch masking based on the assumption that images have significant redundancies across different channels, allowing for the reconstruction of masked content using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Chau Pham , Juan C. Caicedo , Bryan A. Plummer

Growing techniques have been emerging to improve the performance of passage retrieval. As an effective representation bottleneck pretraining technique, the contextual masked auto-encoder utilizes contextual embedding to assist in the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-04-07 Xing Wu , Guangyuan Ma , Peng Wang , Meng Lin , Zijia Lin , Fuzheng Zhang , Songlin Hu

The Masked Autoencoder (MAE) has recently demonstrated effectiveness in pre-training Vision Transformers (ViT) for analyzing natural images. By reconstructing complete images from partially masked inputs, the ViT encoder gathers contextual…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-03 Badhan Kumar Das , Gengyan Zhao , Han Liu , Thomas J. Re , Dorin Comaniciu , Eli Gibson , Andreas Maier