Summary of Can Generative Models Improve Self-supervised Representation Learning?, by Sana Ayromlou et al.
Can Generative Models Improve Self-Supervised Representation Learning?
by Sana Ayromlou, Vahid Reza Khazaie, Fereshteh Forghani, Arash Afkanpour
First submitted to arxiv on: 9 Mar 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 The rapid advancement in self-supervised representation learning has led to a potential breakthrough in leveraging unlabeled data for learning rich visual representations. However, existing techniques often rely on limited simple transformations, which constrains diversity and quality of samples. Our framework enhances the self-supervised learning paradigm by utilizing generative models to produce semantically consistent image augmentations. By conditioning generative models on source images, our method enables diverse augmentations while maintaining semantics, offering a richer set of data for SSL. We demonstrate that our framework significantly enhances learned visual representations by up to 10% Top-1 accuracy in downstream tasks, opening new avenues for exploring synthetic data potential and paving the way for more robust representation learning techniques. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary Our research introduces a new approach to self-supervised representation learning using generative models. We use image augmentations to create diverse samples while maintaining semantics, which improves the quality of learned visual representations. This breakthrough has the potential to revolutionize how we learn from data and could lead to better performance in downstream tasks. |
Keywords
* Artificial intelligence * Representation learning * Self supervised * Semantics * Synthetic data
