arXiv Computer Vision

Scalable Patch-Level Self-Supervised Learning

arXiv AI
Sep 24

AdaDim: Dimensionality Adaptation for SSL Representational Dynamics

AdaDim introduces a training strategy for self‑supervised learning that adaptively balances dimensionality increase and mutual information reduction. By gradually regularizing the projection head while encouraging feature decorrelation and sample uniformity, AdaDim achieves up to 3% performance gains over standard SSL baselines without relying on costly techniques such as queues or predictor networks. The method demonstrates that optimal SSL models do not simply maximize dimensionality or minimize mutual information, but find a trade‑off between the two.

By Kiran Kokilepersaud, Mohit Prabhushankar, Ghassan AlRegib
arXiv AI
Oct 1

Which Tasks Survive Self-Supervised Learning?

arXiv:2609.38393v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Same-instance self-supervised learning (SSL) learns representations by enforcing consistency across two views of the same underlying instance. This p...

By Achleshwar Luthra, Lucas Bryant, Tracy Zhu, Tomer Galanti
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 7

Self-Supervised Learning from Structural Invariance

arXiv:2602. 02381v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Joint-embedding self-supervised learning (SSL), the key paradigm for unsupervised representation learning from visual data, learns from invariances between semantically-related data pairs.

By Yipeng Zhang, Hafez Ghaemi, Jungyoon Lee, Shahab Bakhtiari, Eilif B. Muller, Laurent Charlin
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 28

A Controlled Study of Self-Supervised Image and Video Pretraining under Limited Resources

The paper reports a controlled study of self‑supervised learning (SSL) objectives for image and video pretraining under limited data, architecture, and compute budgets. It compares contrastive, reconstruction, feature‑prediction, and diffusion methods, finding that DINOv2‑style pretraining delivers the best overall performance. Combining DINOv2 with video SSL objectives such as VideoMAE improves image classification and segmentation but harms video tracking and camera‑pose estimation, highlighting a trade‑off between semantic and geometric learning.

By Brun\'o B. Englert, Gijs Dubbelman
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 28

Domain-Specific Self-Supervised Representation Learning for Retinal Fundus Classification

The paper explores contrastive self‑supervised learning (SSL) for retinal fundus image classification, comparing SimSiam and SimCLR under limited data and computational resources. It investigates how retinal‑specific augmentation strategies and training parameters affect representation quality, evaluated through linear probing and fine‑tuning on multi‑disease classification and diabetic retinopathy grading tasks. Results indicate that tailored augmentations enable lightweight SSL models to learn transferable representations, reducing reliance on large annotated datasets while achieving competitive performance.

By Bekzat Nurlanbekova, Fung Fung Ting