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Efficient Self-supervised Learning with Contextualized Target Representations for Vision, Speech and Language

14 Dec 2022arXiv:2212.07525archive 2025-07-28

Alexei Baevski, Arun Babu, Wei-Ning Hsu, Michael Auli

Current self-supervised learning algorithms are often modality-specific and require large amounts of computational resources. To address these issues, we increase the training efficiency of data2vec, a learning objective that generalizes across several modalities. We do not encode masked tokens, use a fast convolutional decoder and amortize the effort to build teacher representations. data2vec 2.0 benefits from the rich contextualized target representations introduced in data2vec which enable a fast self-supervised learner. Experiments on ImageNet-1K image classification show that data2vec 2.0 matches the accuracy of Masked Autoencoders in 16.4x lower pre-training time, on Librispeech speech recognition it performs as well as wav2vec 2.0 in 10.6x less time, and on GLUE natural language understanding it matches a retrained RoBERTa model in half the time. Trading some speed for accuracy results in ImageNet-1K top-1 accuracy of 86.8\% with a ViT-L model trained for 150 epochs.

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DecoderImage ClassificationNatural Language UnderstandingSelf-Supervised LearningSpeech Recognitionimage-classificationspeech-recognition

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Image Classification ImageNet data2vec 2.0 Top 1 Accuracy 87.4% #90 of 1060 Archive leaderboard report

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AdamAttentionAttention DropoutBERTDense ConnectionsDropoutLayer NormalizationLinear LayerLinear Warmup With Linear DecayMulti-Head AttentionResidual ConnectionRoBERTaSPEEDSoftmaxWeight DecayWordPiece

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