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Masked Autoencoders (MAE) achieve self-supervised learning of image representations by randomly removing a portion of visual tokens and reconstructing the original image as a pretext task, thereby significantly enhancing pretraining…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Jiaxuan Li , Qing Xu , Xiangjian He , Ziyu Liu , Chang Xing , Zhen Chen , Daokun Zhang , Rong Qu , Chang Wen Chen

We introduce LayerLock, a simple yet effective approach for self-supervised visual representation learning, that gradually transitions from pixel to latent prediction through progressive layer freezing. First, we make the observation that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Goker Erdogan , Nikhil Parthasarathy , Catalin Ionescu , Drew A. Hudson , Alexander Lerchner , Andrew Zisserman , Mehdi S. M. Sajjadi , Joao Carreira

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

Latent-based image generative models, such as Latent Diffusion Models (LDMs) and Mask Image Models (MIMs), have achieved notable success in image generation tasks. These models typically leverage reconstructive autoencoders like VQGAN or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Yongxin Zhu , Bocheng Li , Hang Zhang , Xin Li , Linli Xu , Lidong Bing

Masked diffusion models (MDM) are powerful generative models for discrete data that generate samples by progressively unmasking tokens in a sequence. Each token can take one of two states: masked or unmasked. We observe that token sequences…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Chen-Hao Chao , Wei-Fang Sun , Hanwen Liang , Chun-Yi Lee , Rahul G. Krishnan

Visual tokenizers play a crucial role in diffusion models. The dimensionality of latent space governs both reconstruction fidelity and the semantic expressiveness of the latent feature. However, a fundamental trade-off is inherent between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Qingyu Shi , Size Wu , Jinbin Bai , Kaidong Yu , Yujing Wang , Yunhai Tong , Xiangtai Li , Xuelong Li

Pre-training by numerous image data has become de-facto for robust 2D representations. In contrast, due to the expensive data acquisition and annotation, a paucity of large-scale 3D datasets severely hinders the learning for high-quality 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-14 Renrui Zhang , Liuhui Wang , Yu Qiao , Peng Gao , Hongsheng Li

Tokenizers are a key component of state-of-the-art generative image models, extracting the most important features from the signal while reducing data dimension and redundancy. Most current tokenizers are based on KL-regularized variational…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Théophane Vallaeys , Jakob Verbeek , Matthieu Cord

Masked AutoEncoder (MAE) has revolutionized the field of self-supervised learning with its simple yet effective masking and reconstruction strategies. However, despite achieving state-of-the-art performance across various downstream vision…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-11 Xiaoyu Yue , Lei Bai , Meng Wei , Jiangmiao Pang , Xihui Liu , Luping Zhou , Wanli Ouyang

Visual generative models based on latent space have achieved great success, underscoring the significance of visual tokenization. Mapping images to latents boosts efficiency and enables multimodal alignment for scaling up in downstream…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Yunpeng Qu , Kaidong Zhang , Yukang Ding , Ying Chen , Jian Wang

Recent work has shown that diffusion models can generate high-quality images by operating directly on SSL patch features rather than pixel-space latents. However, the dense patch grids from encoders like DINOv2 contain significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Ramón Calvo-González , François Fleuret

This paper studies the potential of distilling knowledge from pre-trained models, especially Masked Autoencoders. Our approach is simple: in addition to optimizing the pixel reconstruction loss on masked inputs, we minimize the distance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-11 Yutong Bai , Zeyu Wang , Junfei Xiao , Chen Wei , Huiyu Wang , Alan Yuille , Yuyin Zhou , Cihang Xie

Despite recent successes in synthesizing faces and bedrooms, existing generative models struggle to capture more complex image types, potentially due to the oversimplification of their latent space constructions. To tackle this issue,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-03-13 Wenling Shang , Kihyuk Sohn , Yuandong Tian

We present a novel approach to the generation of static and articulated 3D assets that has a 3D autodecoder at its core. The 3D autodecoder framework embeds properties learned from the target dataset in the latent space, which can then be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-12 Evangelos Ntavelis , Aliaksandr Siarohin , Kyle Olszewski , Chaoyang Wang , Luc Van Gool , Sergey Tulyakov

Traditional transformer-based semantic segmentation relies on quantized embeddings. However, our analysis reveals that autoencoder accuracy on segmentation mask using quantized embeddings (e.g. VQ-VAE) is 8% lower than continuous-valued…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Masud Ahmed , Zahid Hasan , Syed Arefinul Haque , Abu Zaher Md Faridee , Sanjay Purushotham , Suya You , Nirmalya Roy

This work explores the effectiveness of masked image modelling for learning representations of retinal OCT images. To this end, we leverage Masked Autoencoders (MAE), a simple and scalable method for self-supervised learning, to obtain a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Theodoros Pissas , Pablo Márquez-Neila , Sebastian Wolf , Martin Zinkernagel , Raphael Sznitman

We introduce the Kernel-Elastic Autoencoder (KAE), a self-supervised generative model based on the transformer architecture with enhanced performance for molecular design. KAE is formulated based on two novel loss functions: modified…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Haote Li , Yu Shee , Brandon Allen , Federica Maschietto , Victor Batista

Masked Image Modeling (MIM)-based models, such as SdAE, CAE, GreenMIM, and MixAE, have explored different strategies to enhance the performance of Masked Autoencoders (MAE) by modifying prediction, loss functions, or incorporating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-26 Srinivasa Rao Nandam , Sara Atito , Zhenhua Feng , Josef Kittler , Muhammad Awais

Multimodal generative models require a unified approach to handle both discrete data (e.g., text and code) and continuous data (e.g., image, audio, video). In this work, we propose Latent Language Modeling (LatentLM), which seamlessly…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-12 Yutao Sun , Hangbo Bao , Wenhui Wang , Zhiliang Peng , Li Dong , Shaohan Huang , Jianyong Wang , Furu Wei

Masked image modeling is a promising self-supervised learning method for visual data. It is typically built upon image patches with random masks, which largely ignores the variation of information density between them. The question is: Is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Haijian Chen , Wendong Zhang , Yunbo Wang , Xiaokang Yang