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Momentum^2 Teacher: Momentum Teacher with Momentum Statistics for Self-Supervised Learning

19 Jan 2021arXiv:2101.07525archive 2025-07-28

Zeming Li, Songtao Liu, Jian Sun

In this paper, we present a novel approach, Momentum² Teacher, for student-teacher based self-supervised learning. The approach performs momentum update on both network weights and batch normalization (BN) statistics. The teacher's weight is a momentum update of the student, and the teacher's BN statistics is a momentum update of those in history. The Momentum² Teacher is simple and efficient. It can achieve the state of the art results (74.5%) under ImageNet linear evaluation protocol using small-batch size(\eg, 128), without requiring large-batch training on special hardware like TPU or inefficient across GPU operation (\eg, shuffling BN, synced BN). Our implementation and pre-trained models will be given on GitHub\footnote{https://github.com/zengarden/momentum2-teacher}.

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