{"about":{"site":"https://codewithpapers.app","non_affiliation":"Code with Papers and Syntology are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Papers with Code, Meta, or the pwc-archive mirror.","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","attribution":"https://codewithpapers.app/attribution","modified":"archive material modified by Syntology; see the attribution page"},"url":"/paper/a-deep-dive-into-explainable-self-supervised","title":"ExpPoint-MAE: Better interpretability and performance for self-supervised point cloud transformers","arxiv_id":"2306.10798","date":"2023-06-19","proceeding":null,"authors":["Ioannis Romanelis","Vlassis Fotis","Konstantinos Moustakas","Adrian Munteanu"],"abstract":"In this paper we delve into the properties of transformers, attained through self-supervision, in the point cloud domain. Specifically, we evaluate the effectiveness of Masked Autoencoding as a pretraining scheme, and explore Momentum Contrast as an alternative. In our study we investigate the impact of data quantity on the learned features, and uncover similarities in the transformer's behavior across domains. Through comprehensive visualiations, we observe that the transformer learns to attend to semantically meaningful regions, indicating that pretraining leads to a better understanding of the underlying geometry. Moreover, we examine the finetuning process and its effect on the learned representations. Based on that, we devise an unfreezing strategy which consistently outperforms our baseline without introducing any other modifications to the model or the training pipeline, and achieve state-of-the-art results in the classification task among transformer models.","url_abs":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.10798v3","url_pdf":"https://arxiv.org/pdf/2306.10798v3.pdf","source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","row_kind":"abstracts"},"code_links":[{"paper_slug":"a-deep-dive-into-explainable-self-supervised","repo_url":"https://github.com/vvrpanda/exppoint-mae","is_official":1,"mentioned_in_paper":1,"mentioned_in_github":1,"framework":"pytorch","reach":null}],"tasks":[{"task_slug":"3d-point-cloud-classification","task_name":"3D Point Cloud Classification"},{"task_slug":"explainable-artificial-intelligence","task_name":"Explainable artificial intelligence"}],"methods":[],"datasets_introduced":[],"methods_introduced":[],"results":[{"leaderboard":"/sota/3d-point-cloud-classification-on-modelnet40","task":"3D Point Cloud Classification","dataset":"ModelNet40","model":"ExpPoint-MAE","rank_in_archive_order":20,"of":111,"metrics":{"Overall Accuracy":"94.2"},"uses_additional_data":true},{"leaderboard":"/sota/3d-point-cloud-classification-on-scanobjectnn","task":"3D Point Cloud Classification","dataset":"ScanObjectNN","model":"ExpPoint-MAE","rank_in_archive_order":77,"of":77,"metrics":{"OBJ-BG (OA)":"90.88","OBJ-ONLY (OA)":"90.02"},"uses_additional_data":true}],"syntology":{"atlas_url":"https://app.syntology.ai/?focus=2306.10798","mcp":null,"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers"},"arxiv_metadata":null,"syntology_extracted_results":null}