Mosaic Representation Learning for Self-supervised Visual Pre-trainingDownload PDF

Published: 01 Feb 2023, Last Modified: 28 Feb 2023ICLR 2023 notable top 25%Readers: Everyone
Keywords: self-supervised learning, computer vision
TL;DR: We propose a simple and effective mosaic representation learning framework consisting of a new data augmentation strategy, which aims to adequately learn discriminative feature representations.
Abstract: Self-supervised learning has achieved significant success in learning visual representations without the need for manual annotation. To obtain generalizable representations, a meticulously designed data augmentation strategy is one of the most crucial parts. Recently, multi-crop strategies utilizing a set of small crops as positive samples have been shown to learn spatially structured features. However, it overlooks the diverse contextual backgrounds, which reduces the variance of the input views and degenerates the performance. To address this problem, we propose a mosaic representation learning framework (MosRep), consisting of a new data augmentation strategy that enriches the backgrounds of each small crop and improves the quality of visual representations. Specifically, we randomly sample numbers of small crops from different input images and compose them into a mosaic view, which is equivalent to introducing different background information for each small crop. Additionally, we further jitter the mosaic view to prevent memorizing the spatial locations of each crop. Along with optimization, our MosRep gradually extracts more discriminative features. Extensive experimental results demonstrate that our method improves the performance far greater than the multi-crop strategy on a series of downstream tasks, e.g., +7.4% and +4.9% than the multi-crop strategy on ImageNet-1K with 1% label and 10% label, respectively. Code is available at https://github.com/DerrickWang005/MosRep.git.
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