Pseudo Labelling for Enhanced Masked Autoencoders

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Main Authors: Nandam, Srinivasa Rao, Atito, Sara, Feng, Zhenhua, Kittler, Josef, Awais, Muhammad
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Published: 2024
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author Nandam, Srinivasa Rao
Atito, Sara
Feng, Zhenhua
Kittler, Josef
Awais, Muhammad
author_facet Nandam, Srinivasa Rao
Atito, Sara
Feng, Zhenhua
Kittler, Josef
Awais, Muhammad
contents Masked Image Modeling (MIM)-based models, such as SdAE, CAE, GreenMIM, and MixAE, have explored different strategies to enhance the performance of Masked Autoencoders (MAE) by modifying prediction, loss functions, or incorporating additional architectural components. In this paper, we propose an enhanced approach that boosts MAE performance by integrating pseudo labelling for both class and data tokens, alongside replacing the traditional pixel-level reconstruction with token-level reconstruction. This strategy uses cluster assignments as pseudo labels to promote instance-level discrimination within the network, while token reconstruction requires generation of discrete tokens encapturing local context. The targets for pseudo labelling and reconstruction needs to be generated by a teacher network. To disentangle the generation of target pseudo labels and the reconstruction of the token features, we decouple the teacher into two distinct models, where one serves as a labelling teacher and the other as a reconstruction teacher. This separation proves empirically superior to a single teacher, while having negligible impact on throughput and memory consumption. Incorporating pseudo-labelling as an auxiliary task has demonstrated notable improvements in ImageNet-1K and other downstream tasks, including classification, semantic segmentation, and detection.
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spellingShingle Pseudo Labelling for Enhanced Masked Autoencoders
Nandam, Srinivasa Rao
Atito, Sara
Feng, Zhenhua
Kittler, Josef
Awais, Muhammad
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
Masked Image Modeling (MIM)-based models, such as SdAE, CAE, GreenMIM, and MixAE, have explored different strategies to enhance the performance of Masked Autoencoders (MAE) by modifying prediction, loss functions, or incorporating additional architectural components. In this paper, we propose an enhanced approach that boosts MAE performance by integrating pseudo labelling for both class and data tokens, alongside replacing the traditional pixel-level reconstruction with token-level reconstruction. This strategy uses cluster assignments as pseudo labels to promote instance-level discrimination within the network, while token reconstruction requires generation of discrete tokens encapturing local context. The targets for pseudo labelling and reconstruction needs to be generated by a teacher network. To disentangle the generation of target pseudo labels and the reconstruction of the token features, we decouple the teacher into two distinct models, where one serves as a labelling teacher and the other as a reconstruction teacher. This separation proves empirically superior to a single teacher, while having negligible impact on throughput and memory consumption. Incorporating pseudo-labelling as an auxiliary task has demonstrated notable improvements in ImageNet-1K and other downstream tasks, including classification, semantic segmentation, and detection.
title Pseudo Labelling for Enhanced Masked Autoencoders
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.17450