Summary of Improving Nonlinear Projection Heads Using Pretrained Autoencoder Embeddings, by Andreas Schliebitz et al.
Improving Nonlinear Projection Heads using Pretrained Autoencoder Embeddings
by Andreas Schliebitz, Heiko Tapken, Martin Atzmueller
First submitted to arxiv on: 25 Aug 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
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| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The study aims to enhance the effectiveness of the standard 2-layer MLP projection head in the SimCLR framework by utilizing pre-trained autoencoder embeddings. The authors first train a shallow autoencoder and extract its compressed representations, then freeze these weights as a drop-in replacement for the input layer of SimCLR’s default projector. Additionally, they apply architectural changes to the projector by decreasing its width and changing its activation function. The different projection heads are used to contrastively train and evaluate a feature extractor following the SimCLR protocol, while examining the performance impact of Z-score normalized datasets. The results show that using pre-trained autoencoder embeddings can increase classification accuracy by up to 2.9% or 1.7% on average, significantly decreasing the dimensionality of the projection space. Furthermore, the study suggests that using sigmoid and tanh activation functions within the projector can outperform ReLU in terms of peak and average classification accuracy. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary The paper aims to improve the performance of a machine learning model by using pre-trained autoencoder embeddings. The authors try different ways of using these embeddings to make the model better at recognizing objects. They show that this approach works well and can even help reduce the amount of information the model needs to process. The study also looks at how different types of activation functions in the model can affect its performance. Overall, the results suggest that pre-trained autoencoder embeddings can be a useful tool for improving machine learning models. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Autoencoder » Classification » Machine learning » Relu » Sigmoid » Tanh
