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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…

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Network traffic classification using self-supervised pre-training models based on Masked Autoencoders (MAE) has demonstrated a huge potential. However, existing methods are confined to isolated byte-level reconstruction of individual flows,…

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Text images contain both visual and linguistic information. However, existing pre-training techniques for text recognition mainly focus on either visual representation learning or linguistic knowledge learning. In this paper, we propose a…

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Medical vision-and-language pre-training provides a feasible solution to extract effective vision-and-language representations from medical images and texts. However, few studies have been dedicated to this field to facilitate medical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-16 Zhihong Chen , Yuhao Du , Jinpeng Hu , Yang Liu , Guanbin Li , Xiang Wan , Tsung-Hui Chang

Masked Autoencoders (MAEs) have emerged as a dominant strategy for self-supervised representation learning in natural images, where models are pre-trained to reconstruct masked patches with a pixel-wise mean squared error (MSE) between…

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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 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…

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Learning transferable representations from unlabeled time series is crucial for improving performance in data-scarce classification. Existing self-supervised methods often operate at the point level and rely on unidirectional encoding,…

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Automated analysis of surgical videos is crucial for improving surgical training, workflow optimization, and postoperative assessment. We introduce a CSMAE, Masked Autoencoder (MAE)-based pretraining approach, specifically developed for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-14 Nisarg A. Shah , Wele Gedara Chaminda Bandara , Shameema Skider , S. Swaroop Vedula , Vishal M. Patel

Unsupervised multivariate time series (MTS) representation learning aims to extract compact and informative representations from raw sequences without relying on labels, enabling efficient transfer to diverse downstream tasks. In this…

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Masked Autoencoder (MAE) has recently been shown to be effective in pre-training Vision Transformers (ViT) for natural image analysis. By reconstructing full images from partially masked inputs, a ViT encoder aggregates contextual…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-24 Lei Zhou , Huidong Liu , Joseph Bae , Junjun He , Dimitris Samaras , Prateek Prasanna

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

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

We propose Denoising Masked Autoencoder (Deno-MAE), a novel multimodal autoencoder framework for denoising modulation signals during pretraining. DenoMAE extends the concept of masked autoencoders by incorporating multiple input modalities,…

Pre-trained Transformers (\eg BERT) have been commonly used in existing dense retrieval methods for parameter initialization, and recent studies are exploring more effective pre-training tasks for further improving the quality of dense…

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We investigated the adaptation and performance of Masked Autoencoders (MAEs) with Vision Transformer (ViT) architectures for self-supervised representation learning on one-dimensional (1D) ultrasound signals. Although MAEs have demonstrated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Immanuel Roßteutscher , Klaus S. Drese , Thorsten Uphues

Part-level features are crucial for image understanding, but few studies focus on them because of the lack of fine-grained labels. Although unsupervised part discovery can eliminate the reliance on labels, most of them cannot maintain…

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Recent general-purpose audio representations show state-of-the-art performance on various audio tasks. These representations are pre-trained by self-supervised learning methods that create training signals from the input. For example,…

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Vehicle re-identification is a cross-view search task by matching the same target vehicle from different perspectives. It serves an important role in road-vehicle collaboration and intelligent road control. With the large-scale and dynamic…

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