Self-supervised Learning: Generative or Contrastive

Xiao Liu, Fanjin Zhang, Zhenyu Hou et al.

2021 · IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering · 1,011 citations

Deep supervised learning has achieved great success in the last decade. However, its defects of heavy dependence on manual labels and vulnerability to attacks have driven people to find other paradigms. As an alternative, self-supervised learning (SSL) attracts many researchers for its soaring performance on representation learning in the last several years. Self-supervised representation learning leverages input data itself as supervision and benefits almost all types of downstream tasks. In this survey, we take a look into new self-supervised learning methods for representation in computer…

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