Improving self-supervised representation learning via sequential adversarial masking

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2212.08277v1
• Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2022 04:25:43 GMT
• Title: Improving self-supervised representation learning via sequential adversarial masking
• Authors: Dylan Sam, Min Bai, Tristan McKinney, Li Erran Li
• Abstract summary: Masking-based pretext tasks extend beyond NLP, serving as useful pretraining objectives in computer vision. We propose a new framework that generates masks in a sequential fashion with different constraints on the adversary.
• Score: 12.176299580413097
• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Recent methods in self-supervised learning have demonstrated that masking-based pretext tasks extend beyond NLP, serving as useful pretraining objectives in computer vision. However, existing approaches apply random or ad hoc masking strategies that limit the difficulty of the reconstruction task and, consequently, the strength of the learnt representations. We improve upon current state-of-the-art work in learning adversarial masks by proposing a new framework that generates masks in a sequential fashion with different constraints on the adversary. This leads to improvements in performance on various downstream tasks, such as classification on ImageNet100, STL10, and CIFAR10/100 and segmentation on Pascal VOC. Our results further demonstrate the promising capabilities of masking-based approaches for SSL in computer vision.

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