{"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/pre-training-vision-models-with-mandelbulb","title":"Pre-training Vision Models with Mandelbulb Variations","arxiv_id":null,"date":"2024-01-01","proceeding":"CVPR 2024 1","authors":["Benjamin Naoto Chiche","Yuto Horikawa","Ryo Fujita"],"abstract":"    The use of models that have been pre-trained on natural image datasets like ImageNet may face some limitations. First this use may be restricted due to copyright and license on the training images and privacy laws. Second these datasets and models may incorporate societal and ethical biases. Formula-driven supervised learning (FDSL) enables model pre-training to circumvent these issues. This consists of generating a synthetic image dataset based on mathematical formulae and pre-training the model on it. In this work we propose novel FDSL datasets based on Mandelbulb Variations. These datasets contain RGB images that are projections of colored objects deriving from the 3D Mandelbulb fractal. Pre-training ResNet-50 on one of our proposed datasets MandelbulbVAR-1k enables an average top-1 accuracy over target classification datasets that is at least 1% higher than pre-training on existing FDSL datasets. With regard to anomaly detection on MVTec AD pre-training the WideResNet-50 backbone on MandelbulbVAR-1k enables PatchCore to achieve 97.2% average image-level AUROC. This is only 1.9% lower than pre-training on ImageNet-1k (99.1%) and 4.5% higher than pre-training on the second-best performing FDSL dataset i.e. VisualAtom-1k (92.7%). Regarding Vision Transformer (ViT) pre-training another dataset that we propose and coin MandelbulbVAR-Hybrid-21k enables ViT-Base to achieve 82.2% top-1 accuracy on ImageNet-1k which is 0.4% higher than pre-training on ImageNet-21k (81.8%) and only 0.1% lower than pre-training on VisualAtom-1k (82.3%).    ","url_abs":"http://openaccess.thecvf.com//content/CVPR2024/html/Chiche_Pre-training_Vision_Models_with_Mandelbulb_Variations_CVPR_2024_paper.html","url_pdf":"http://openaccess.thecvf.com//content/CVPR2024/papers/Chiche_Pre-training_Vision_Models_with_Mandelbulb_Variations_CVPR_2024_paper.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":"pre-training-vision-models-with-mandelbulb","repo_url":"https://github.com/ristoranterist/mandelbulbvariationsgenerator","is_official":1,"mentioned_in_paper":1,"mentioned_in_github":0,"framework":"pytorch","reach":null}],"tasks":[{"task_slug":"anomaly-detection","task_name":"Anomaly Detection"}],"methods":[{"method_slug":"absolute-position-encodings","method_name":"Absolute Position Encodings"},{"method_slug":"adam","method_name":"Adam"},{"method_slug":"attention","method_name":"Attention"},{"method_slug":"bpe","method_name":"BPE"},{"method_slug":"dense-connections","method_name":"Dense Connections"},{"method_slug":"dropout","method_name":"Dropout"},{"method_slug":"label-smoothing","method_name":"Label Smoothing"},{"method_slug":"layer-normalization","method_name":"Layer Normalization"},{"method_slug":"linear-layer","method_name":"Linear Layer"},{"method_slug":"multi-head-attention","method_name":"Multi-Head Attention"},{"method_slug":"position-wise-feed-forward-layer","method_name":"Position-Wise Feed-Forward Layer"},{"method_slug":"residual-connection","method_name":"Residual Connection"},{"method_slug":"softmax","method_name":"Softmax"},{"method_slug":"transformer","method_name":"Transformer"},{"method_slug":"vision-transformer","method_name":"Vision Transformer"}],"datasets_introduced":[],"methods_introduced":[],"results":[],"syntology":{"syntology_url":null,"atlas_url":null,"mcp":null,"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers"},"arxiv_metadata":null,"syntology_extracted_results":null}