arXiv:2509. 24467v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Self-supervised learning (SSL) learns representations from massive unlabeled data, yet the resulting models typically operate as black boxes, necessitating domain-specific explanations.
By Maedeh Zarvandi, Michael Timothy, Theresa Wasserer, Debarghya Ghoshdastidar
arXiv:2605.19462v2 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: Self-supervised learning (SSL) assumes that solving pretext tasks on unlabeled data yields representations that transfer effectively across d...
By Noam Major, Kathy Razmadze, Yoli Shavit
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
Self-supervision is a powerful technique for learning visual representations from unlabeled data. Existing techniques primarily adopt a two-stage approach for self-supervised learning (SSL): a pretraining stage on unlabeled data followed by a finetuning stage on labeled data.
arXiv:2610.00753v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: End-to-end backpropagation has been the dominant mode of training in deep learning, allowing for the coordination of parameter updates across layers...
By Syon Mansur, Joel Zylberberg
arXiv:2608.23182v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: We present a comparative study of label-free metrics for assessing the quality of representations in deep neural networks to understand their reliabi...
By Daniel Richards Arputharaj, Daniel J\"onsson, Gabriel Eilertsen
arXiv:2608. 00491v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Graph self-supervised learning aims to learn transferable representations from large-scale unlabeled graph data.
By Ruichen Xu, Jingxiang Qu, Wenhan Gao, Jiaxing Zhang, Linsey Pang, Ravid Shwartz-Ziv, Yann LeCun, Yuefan Deng
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
arXiv:2606. 00514v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Generative modeling and self-supervised representation learning (SSL) optimize structurally different objectives: generative training rewards distributional fidelity, while SSL rewards semantic coherence.
By Hugues Van Assel, Edward De Brouwer, Saeed Saremi, Gabriele Scalia, Aviv Regev
arXiv:2606. 18676v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Training-free neural architecture search promises efficient discovery of high-performance networks without costly training.
By Qinqin Zhou, Fuhai Chen, Jipeng Wu, Zhiwei Chen, Zhikai Hu, Weiwei Cai
arXiv:2407.03463v2 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: In the realm of self-supervised learning (SSL), conventional wisdom has gravitated towards the utility of massive, general domain datasets fo...
By Jes\'us M Rodr\'iguez-de-Vera, Imanol G Estepa, Ignacio Saras\'ua, Bhalaji Nagarajan, Petia Radeva
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. The results demonstrate that tailored augmentations enable lightweight SSL models to learn transferable representations, reducing reliance on large annotated datasets while achieving competitive performance.