Contrastive and Non-Contrastive Self-Supervised Learning Recover Global and Local Spectral Embedding Methods

Authors: Randall Balestriero, Yann LeCun

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Reproducibility Variable Result LLM Response
Research Type Experimental Although SSL originated decades ago [7], recent advances have pushed SSL performances beyond expectations [8 10]. Due to those rapid empirical advances, an urgent need for a principled theoretical understanding of those methods has emerged [11, 12]. Studies in this direction often take one of the three following approaches: (i) studying the training dynamics and optimization landscapes of ... (36th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (Neur IPS 2022))... We only provide empirical validation that do not require errors bars
Researcher Affiliation Collaboration Randall Balestriero Meta AI Research, FAIR NYC, USA rbalestriero@meta.com Yann Le Cun Meta AI Research, FAIR, NYU NYC, USA ylecun@meta.com
Pseudocode No The paper does not contain structured pseudocode or algorithm blocks.
Open Source Code Yes Code to reproduce the figures is provided in the supplementary materials
Open Datasets No The paper does not provide concrete access information (specific link, DOI, repository name, formal citation with authors/year, or reference to established benchmark datasets) for a publicly available or open dataset. It describes general input data X and relation matrix G, but not a specific public dataset.
Dataset Splits No The paper does not provide specific dataset split information for training, validation, or test sets. It mentions parameters like 'N = 256, K = 16, rank(G) = 4' for experiments, but these are not dataset splits.
Hardware Specification No We only provide empirical validation on toy settings that do not require GPU or cluster computations
Software Dependencies No The paper does not provide specific ancillary software details with version numbers (e.g., library or solver names with version numbers like Python 3.8, CPLEX 12.4) needed to replicate the experiment.
Experiment Setup Yes All experiments employed N = 256, K = 16, rank(G) = 4. ... N = 256, K = 32, rank(G) = 8. ... invariance coefficient γ (α fixed at 1)