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# Towards Demystifying Representation Learning with Non-contrastive Self-supervision

@article{Wang2021TowardsDR,
title={Towards Demystifying Representation Learning with Non-contrastive Self-supervision},
author={Xiang Wang and Xinlei Chen and Simon Shaolei Du and Yuandong Tian},
journal={ArXiv},
year={2021},
volume={abs/2110.04947}
}
• Published 11 October 2021
• Computer Science
• ArXiv
Non-contrastive methods of self-supervised learning (such as BYOL and SimSiam) learn representations by minimizing the distance between two views of the same image. These approaches have achieved remarkable performance in practice, but it is not well understood 1) why these methods do not collapse to the trivial solutions and 2) how the representation is learned. Tian et al. (2021) made an initial attempt on the first question and proposed DirectPred that sets the predictor directly. In our…
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