Summary of Rethinking the Uniformity Metric in Self-supervised Learning, by Xianghong Fang et al.
Rethinking The Uniformity Metric in Self-Supervised Learning
by Xianghong Fang, Jian Li, Qiang Sun, Benyou Wang
First submitted to arxiv on: 1 Mar 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The paper explores the importance of uniformity in evaluating learned representations, particularly in self-supervised learning. The authors identify four key properties that effective uniformity metrics should possess: invariance to instance permutations and sample replications, capturing feature redundancy, and accounting for dimensional collapse. They find that a previous proposed metric fails to meet these criteria and introduce a new metric based on the Wasserstein distance that satisfies all the properties. This new metric is integrated into existing self-supervised learning methods, improving their performance on downstream tasks using CIFAR-10 and CIFAR-100 datasets. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary Uniformity in evaluating learned representations is crucial for understanding self-supervised learning. The authors identify four key principles for effective uniformity metrics: they should be invariant to instance permutations and sample replications, capture feature redundancy, and account for dimensional collapse. They find that a previous proposed metric doesn’t meet these criteria and introduce a new one based on the Wasserstein distance that does. This new metric improves performance on downstream tasks using CIFAR-10 and CIFAR-100 datasets. |
Keywords
* Artificial intelligence * Self supervised
