Masking meets Supervision: A Strong Learning Alliance

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Autori principali: Heo, Byeongho, Kim, Taekyung, Yun, Sangdoo, Han, Dongyoon
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Pubblicazione: 2023
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author Heo, Byeongho
Kim, Taekyung
Yun, Sangdoo
Han, Dongyoon
author_facet Heo, Byeongho
Kim, Taekyung
Yun, Sangdoo
Han, Dongyoon
contents Pre-training with random masked inputs has emerged as a novel trend in self-supervised training. However, supervised learning still faces a challenge in adopting masking augmentations, primarily due to unstable training. In this paper, we propose a novel way to involve masking augmentations dubbed Masked Sub-branch (MaskSub). MaskSub consists of the main-branch and sub-branch, the latter being a part of the former. The main-branch undergoes conventional training recipes, while the sub-branch merits intensive masking augmentations, during training. MaskSub tackles the challenge by mitigating adverse effects through a relaxed loss function similar to a self-distillation loss. Our analysis shows that MaskSub improves performance, with the training loss converging faster than in standard training, which suggests our method stabilizes the training process. We further validate MaskSub across diverse training scenarios and models, including DeiT-III training, MAE finetuning, CLIP finetuning, BERT training, and hierarchical architectures (ResNet and Swin Transformer). Our results show that MaskSub consistently achieves impressive performance gains across all the cases. MaskSub provides a practical and effective solution for introducing additional regularization under various training recipes. Code available at https://github.com/naver-ai/augsub
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spellingShingle Masking meets Supervision: A Strong Learning Alliance
Heo, Byeongho
Kim, Taekyung
Yun, Sangdoo
Han, Dongyoon
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Machine Learning
Pre-training with random masked inputs has emerged as a novel trend in self-supervised training. However, supervised learning still faces a challenge in adopting masking augmentations, primarily due to unstable training. In this paper, we propose a novel way to involve masking augmentations dubbed Masked Sub-branch (MaskSub). MaskSub consists of the main-branch and sub-branch, the latter being a part of the former. The main-branch undergoes conventional training recipes, while the sub-branch merits intensive masking augmentations, during training. MaskSub tackles the challenge by mitigating adverse effects through a relaxed loss function similar to a self-distillation loss. Our analysis shows that MaskSub improves performance, with the training loss converging faster than in standard training, which suggests our method stabilizes the training process. We further validate MaskSub across diverse training scenarios and models, including DeiT-III training, MAE finetuning, CLIP finetuning, BERT training, and hierarchical architectures (ResNet and Swin Transformer). Our results show that MaskSub consistently achieves impressive performance gains across all the cases. MaskSub provides a practical and effective solution for introducing additional regularization under various training recipes. Code available at https://github.com/naver-ai/augsub
title Masking meets Supervision: A Strong Learning Alliance
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.11339