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For graph self-supervised learning (GSSL), masked autoencoder (MAE) follows the generative paradigm and learns to reconstruct masked graph edges or node features. Contrastive Learning (CL) maximizes the similarity between augmented views of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-25 Yuxiang Wang , Xiao Yan , Chuang Hu , Fangcheng Fu , Wentao Zhang , Hao Wang , Shuo Shang , Jiawei Jiang

Self-supervised learning has become a cornerstone in computer vision, primarily divided into reconstruction-based methods like masked autoencoders (MAE) and discriminative methods such as contrastive learning (CL). Recent empirical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-06 Yu Huang , Zixin Wen , Yuejie Chi , Yingbin Liang

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

There has been a growing interest in using deep learning models for processing long surgical videos, in order to automatically detect clinical/operational activities and extract metrics that can enable workflow efficiency tools and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-22 Muhammad Abdullah Jamal , Omid Mohareri

Federated learning is a specific distributed learning paradigm in which a central server aggregates updates from multiple clients' local models, thereby enabling the server to learn without requiring clients to upload their private data,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Yuchen He , Xiangfeng Wang

Masked image modeling (MIM) has become a leading self-supervised learning strategy. MIMs such as Masked Autoencoder (MAE) learn strong representations by randomly masking input tokens for the encoder to process, with the decoder…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Taekyung Kim , Sanghyuk Chun , Byeongho Heo , Dongyoon Han

Masked Autoencoders (MAE) have shown promising performance in self-supervised learning for both 2D and 3D computer vision. However, existing MAE-style methods can only learn from the data of a single modality, i.e., either images or point…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Ziyu Guo , Renrui Zhang , Longtian Qiu , Xianzhi Li , Pheng-Ann Heng

Low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) offers reduced X-ray radiation exposure but at the cost of compromised image quality, characterized by increased noise and artifacts. Recently, transformer models emerged as a promising avenue to enhance…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-20 Dayang Wang , Yongshun Xu , Shuo Han , Zhan Wu , Li Zhou , Bahareh Morovati , Hengyong Yu

In this work, we propose a Multi-Window Masked Autoencoder (MW-MAE) fitted with a novel Multi-Window Multi-Head Attention (MW-MHA) module that facilitates the modelling of local-global interactions in every decoder transformer block through…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Sarthak Yadav , Sergios Theodoridis , Lars Kai Hansen , Zheng-Hua Tan

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

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

Learning 3D representation plays a critical role in masked autoencoder (MAE) based pre-training methods for point cloud, including single-modal and cross-modal based MAE. Specifically, although cross-modal MAE methods learn strong 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Yaohua Zha , Huizhen Ji , Jinmin Li , Rongsheng Li , Tao Dai , Bin Chen , Zhi Wang , Shu-Tao Xia

Transformers have shown significant effectiveness for various vision tasks including both high-level vision and low-level vision. Recently, masked autoencoders (MAE) for feature pre-training have further unleashed the potential of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-31 Huiyu Duan , Wei Shen , Xiongkuo Min , Danyang Tu , Long Teng , Jia Wang , Guangtao Zhai

Variational Autoencoder (VAE), a simple and effective deep generative model, has led to a number of impressive empirical successes and spawned many advanced variants and theoretical investigations. However, recent studies demonstrate that,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-08 Xuezhe Ma , Chunting Zhou , Eduard Hovy

The last years have witnessed the emergence of a promising self-supervised learning strategy, referred to as masked autoencoding. However, there is a lack of theoretical understanding of how masking matters on graph autoencoders (GAEs). In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Jintang Li , Ruofan Wu , Wangbin Sun , Liang Chen , Sheng Tian , Liang Zhu , Changhua Meng , Zibin Zheng , Weiqiang Wang

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

Vision Transformers (ViTs) outperforms convolutional neural networks (CNNs) in several vision tasks with its global modeling capabilities. However, ViT lacks the inductive bias inherent to convolution making it require a large amount of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-11 Jiawei Mao , Honggu Zhou , Xuesong Yin , Yuanqi Chang. Binling Nie. Rui Xu

Recently, significant progress has been made in masked image modeling to catch up to masked language modeling. However, unlike words in NLP, the lack of semantic decomposition of images still makes masked autoencoding (MAE) different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-06 Gang Li , Heliang Zheng , Daqing Liu , Chaoyue Wang , Bing Su , Changwen Zheng

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

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