Summary of Downstream Task Guided Masking Learning in Masked Autoencoders Using Multi-level Optimization, by Han Guo et al.
Downstream Task Guided Masking Learning in Masked Autoencoders Using Multi-Level Optimization
by Han Guo, Ramtin Hosseini, Ruiyi Zhang, Sai Ashish Somayajula, Ranak Roy Chowdhury, Rajesh K. Gupta, Pengtao Xie
First submitted to arxiv on: 28 Feb 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 Masked Autoencoder (MAE) is a self-supervised pretraining method for visual representation learning. MAE randomly masks image patches and reconstructs them using unmasked ones, but it uniformly selects patches to mask without considering their informativeness. To address this limitation, we propose the Multi-level Optimized Mask Autoencoder (MLO-MAE), which uses end-to-end feedback from downstream tasks to learn an optimal masking strategy during pretraining. Our experimental findings show MLO-MAE’s significant advancements in visual representation learning, outperforming existing methods across diverse datasets and tasks. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary Imagine a way to improve how computers understand pictures. This is what the Masked Autoencoder (MAE) does – it looks at images, hides some parts, and then tries to recreate those hidden parts using the rest of the image. But MAE doesn’t think about which parts are most important to hide or show. To fix this, we created a new way called MLO-MAE that uses feedback from other tasks to learn how to hide parts in a better way. Our experiments showed that MLO-MAE is really good at understanding pictures and can even improve on previous methods. |
Keywords
* Artificial intelligence * Autoencoder * Mae * Mask * Pretraining * Representation learning * Self supervised
