Summary of Label-free Monitoring Of Self-supervised Learning Progress, by Isaac Xu et al.
Label-free Monitoring of Self-Supervised Learning Progress
by Isaac Xu, Scott Lowe, Thomas Trappenberg
First submitted to arxiv on: 10 Sep 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary This study proposes several evaluation metrics for self-supervised learning (SSL) methodologies that can operate on unlabelled data, eliminating the need for annotated datasets. The authors investigate the viability of these metrics by comparing them to linear probe accuracy, a common metric requiring labelled data. The proposed metrics include k-means clustering with silhouette score and clustering agreement, as well as entropy of the embedding distribution. The results show that label-free clustering metrics correlate with linear probe accuracy only when training with SimCLR and MoCo-v2, but not with SimSiam. Entropy also exhibits instability during early training, stabilizing at later stages. Interestingly, entropy decreases for most models, except for SimSiam which shows an unexpected increase. This study highlights the importance of establishing a reliable evaluation framework for SSL methodologies. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary Imagine you have a lot of data that isn’t labelled, but you still want to learn from it. One way to do this is by using self-supervised learning (SSL). But how can we tell if our method is working well? The authors of this study propose some new ways to evaluate SSL methods without needing labelled data. They test these methods on several different models and find that they work best when training with certain techniques like SimCLR or MoCo-v2. The results also show that entropy, a measure of how mixed up the data is, can be useful but needs further research. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Clustering » Embedding » K means » Self supervised
