Summary of Self-masking Networks For Unsupervised Adaptation, by Alfonso Taboada Warmerdam et al.
Self-Masking Networks for Unsupervised Adaptation
by Alfonso Taboada Warmerdam, Mathilde Caron, Yuki M. Asano
First submitted to arxiv on: 11 Sep 2024
Categories
- Main: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
- Secondary: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary A novel approach to efficiently adapting pre-trained foundation models to downstream computer vision tasks is introduced. The proposed self-supervised masking networks (SMNs) learn binary masks to fine-tune models without requiring large amounts of labeled data, achieving significant performance improvements on label-efficient tasks. By leveraging the strength of billion-parameter models and adaptively learning binary masks, SMNs demonstrate a 79x reduction in storage requirements while maintaining excellent results. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary Imagine you have a super powerful AI model that can do lots of things, but it’s not great at specific tasks like recognizing objects or reading text. This paper helps make these powerful models better for those specific jobs without needing a lot of labeled data. They do this by creating special “masks” that the model uses to learn new skills on its own. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Self supervised
