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Masked image modeling (MIM) learns representations with remarkably good fine-tuning performances, overshadowing previous prevalent pre-training approaches such as image classification, instance contrastive learning, and image-text…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-25 Yixuan Wei , Han Hu , Zhenda Xie , Zheng Zhang , Yue Cao , Jianmin Bao , Dong Chen , Baining Guo

The Vision Transformer (ViT) has demonstrated remarkable performance in Self-Supervised Learning (SSL) for 3D medical image analysis. Masked AutoEncoder (MAE) for feature pre-training can further unleash the potential of ViT on various…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-13 Jiaxin Zhuang , Linshan Wu , Qiong Wang , Peng Fei , Varut Vardhanabhuti , Lin Luo , Hao Chen

Learned image compression (LIC) methods have experienced significant progress during recent years. However, these methods are primarily dedicated to optimizing the rate-distortion (R-D) performance at medium and high bitrates (> 0.1 bits…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-28 Anqi Li , Feng Li , Jiaxin Han , Huihui Bai , Runmin Cong , Chunjie Zhang , Meng Wang , Weisi Lin , Yao Zhao

Many recent methods for unsupervised or self-supervised representation learning train feature extractors by maximizing an estimate of the mutual information (MI) between different views of the data. This comes with several immediate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-24 Michael Tschannen , Josip Djolonga , Paul K. Rubenstein , Sylvain Gelly , Mario Lucic

Masked image modeling has demonstrated great potential to eliminate the label-hungry problem of training large-scale vision Transformers, achieving impressive performance on various downstream tasks. In this work, we propose a unified view…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-20 Zhiliang Peng , Li Dong , Hangbo Bao , Qixiang Ye , Furu Wei

Masked image modeling (MIM) has shown great promise for self-supervised learning (SSL) yet been criticized for learning inefficiency. We believe the insufficient utilization of training signals should be responsible. To alleviate this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-03 Xin Ma , Chang Liu , Chunyu Xie , Long Ye , Yafeng Deng , Xiangyang Ji

Masked image modeling (MIM) has been recognized as a strong self-supervised pre-training approach in the vision domain. However, the mechanism and properties of the learned representations by such a scheme, as well as how to further enhance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-10 Kevin Zhang , Zhiqiang Shen

Masked Image Generation Models (MIGMs) have achieved great success, yet their efficiency is hampered by the multiple steps of bi-directional attention. In fact, there exists notable redundancy in their computation: when sampling discrete…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Kaiwen Zhu , Quansheng Zeng , Yuandong Pu , Shuo Cao , Xiaohui Li , Yi Xin , Qi Qin , Jiayang Li , Yu Qiao , Jinjin Gu , Yihao Liu

Masked image modeling (MIM) performs strongly in pre-training large vision Transformers (ViTs). However, small models that are critical for real-world applications cannot or only marginally benefit from this pre-training approach. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-04 Sucheng Ren , Fangyun Wei , Zheng Zhang , Han Hu

We propose Masked Siamese Networks (MSN), a self-supervised learning framework for learning image representations. Our approach matches the representation of an image view containing randomly masked patches to the representation of the…

The success of language Transformers is primarily attributed to the pretext task of masked language modeling (MLM), where texts are first tokenized into semantically meaningful pieces. In this work, we study masked image modeling (MIM) and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-28 Jinghao Zhou , Chen Wei , Huiyu Wang , Wei Shen , Cihang Xie , Alan Yuille , Tao Kong

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

Masked image modeling (MIM) has become a prevalent pre-training setup for vision foundation models and attains promising performance. Despite its success, existing MIM methods discard the decoder network during downstream applications,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Qi Han , Yuxuan Cai , Xiangyu Zhang

Self-supervised monocular depth estimation is a salient task for 3D scene understanding. Learned jointly with monocular ego-motion estimation, several methods have been proposed to predict accurate pixel-wise depth without using labeled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-02 Hemang Chawla , Kishaan Jeeveswaran , Elahe Arani , Bahram Zonooz

Masked image modeling has achieved great success in learning representations but is limited by the huge computational costs. One cost-saving strategy makes the decoder reconstruct only a subset of masked tokens and throw the others, and we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Zhong-Yu Li , Yunheng Li , Deng-Ping Fan , Ming-Ming Cheng

Masked Image Modeling (MIM) has become a ubiquitous self-supervised vision paradigm. In this work, we show that MIM objectives cause the learned representations to retain non-semantic information, which ultimately hurts performance during…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Martine Hjelkrem-Tan , Marius Aasan , Rwiddhi Chakraborty , Gabriel Y. Arteaga , Changkyu Choi , Adín Ramírez Rivera

In-context learning (ICL) facilitates Large Language Models (LLMs) exhibiting emergent ability on downstream tasks without updating billions of parameters. However, in the area of multi-modal Large Language Models (MLLMs), two problems…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Jun Gao , Qian Qiao , Ziqiang Cao , Zili Wang , Wenjie Li

Multiple instance learning (MIL) is often used in medical imaging to classify high-resolution 2D images by processing patches or classify 3D volumes by processing slices. However, conventional MIL approaches treat instances separately,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Ethan Harvey , Dennis Johan Loevlie , Michael C. Hughes

In vision-language pre-training (VLP), masked image modeling (MIM) has recently been introduced for fine-grained cross-modal alignment. However, in most existing methods, the reconstruction targets for MIM lack high-level semantics, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-04 Haowei Liu , Yaya Shi , Haiyang Xu , Chunfeng Yuan , Qinghao Ye , Chenliang Li , Ming Yan , Ji Zhang , Fei Huang , Bing Li , Weiming Hu

The recent progress in self-supervised learning has successfully combined Masked Image Modeling (MIM) with Siamese Networks, harnessing the strengths of both methodologies. Nonetheless, certain challenges persist when integrating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Kirill Vishniakov , Eric Xing , Zhiqiang Shen