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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,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-09 Daisuke Niizumi , Daiki Takeuchi , Yasunori Ohishi , Noboru Harada , Kunio Kashino

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

How to learn discriminative video representation from unlabeled videos is challenging but crucial for video analysis. The latest attempts seek to learn a representation model by predicting the appearance contents in the masked regions.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-24 Xinyu Sun , Peihao Chen , Liangwei Chen , Changhao Li , Thomas H. Li , Mingkui Tan , Chuang Gan

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

In this work, we explore self-supervised visual pre-training on images from diverse, in-the-wild videos for real-world robotic tasks. Like prior work, our visual representations are pre-trained via a masked autoencoder (MAE), frozen, and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-10-07 Ilija Radosavovic , Tete Xiao , Stephen James , Pieter Abbeel , Jitendra Malik , Trevor Darrell

Recent speech modeling relies on explicit attributes such as pitch, content, and speaker identity, but these alone cannot capture the full richness of natural speech. We introduce RT-MAE, a novel masked autoencoder framework that augments…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Samir Sadok , Stéphane Lathuilière , Xavier Alameda-Pineda

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

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

As the pretraining technique is growing in popularity, little work has been done on pretrained learning-based motion prediction methods in autonomous driving. In this paper, we propose a framework to formalize the pretraining task for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Yi Yang , Qingwen Zhang , Thomas Gilles , Nazre Batool , John Folkesson

Pre-training strategies based on self-supervised learning (SSL) have proven to be effective pretext tasks for many downstream tasks in computer vision. Due to the significant disparity between medical and natural images, the application of…

Self-supervised pre-training for images without labels has recently achieved promising performance in image classification. The success of transformer-based methods, ViT and MAE, draws the community's attention to the design of backbone…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Jiantao Wu , Shentong Mo

We present an extension to masked autoencoders (MAE) which improves on the representations learnt by the model by explicitly encouraging the learning of higher scene-level features. We do this by: (i) the introduction of a perceptual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-29 Samyakh Tukra , Frederick Hoffman , Ken Chatfield

This study explores the application of self-supervised learning (SSL) to the task of motion forecasting, an area that has not yet been extensively investigated despite the widespread success of SSL in computer vision and natural language…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Jie Cheng , Xiaodong Mei , Ming Liu

As the deep learning revolution marches on, self-supervised learning has garnered increasing attention in recent years thanks to its remarkable representation learning ability and the low dependence on labeled data. Among these varied…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-10 Siyuan Li , Luyuan Zhang , Zedong Wang , Di Wu , Lirong Wu , Zicheng Liu , Jun Xia , Cheng Tan , Yang Liu , Baigui Sun , Stan Z. Li

Despite pre-training's progress in many important NLP tasks, it remains to explore effective pre-training strategies for dense retrieval. In this paper, we propose RetroMAE, a new retrieval oriented pre-training paradigm based on Masked…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Shitao Xiao , Zheng Liu , Yingxia Shao , Zhao Cao

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…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Yi Xu , Yitian Zhang , Yun Fu

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

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,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Mingyue Cheng , Xiaoyu Tao , Zhiding Liu , Qi Liu , Hao Zhang , Rujiao Zhang , Enhong Chen

Masked autoencoders (MAEs) have established themselves as a powerful method for unsupervised pre-training for computer vision tasks. While vanilla MAEs put equal emphasis on reconstructing the individual parts of the image, we propose to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-26 Leon Sick , Dominik Engel , Pedro Hermosilla , Timo Ropinski

Accurate imputation of missing laboratory values in electronic health records (EHRs) is critical to enable robust clinical predictions and reduce biases in AI systems in healthcare. Existing methods, such as XGBoost, softimpute, GAIN,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-27 David Restrepo , Chenwei Wu , Yueran Jia , Jaden K. Sun , Jack Gallifant , Catherine G. Bielick , Yugang Jia , Leo A. Celi