Argmax

3: VICReg

Mar 21, 2022 · 44 min · Season 1 · Episode 3 · 32.3 MB
0:00-44:46

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Todays paper: VICReg (https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.04906)

Summary of the paper
VICReg prevents representation collapse using a mixture of variance, invariance and covariance when calculating the loss. It does not require negative samples and achieves great performance on downstream tasks.

Highlights of discussion

  • The VICReg architecture (Figure 1)
  • Sensitivity to hyperparameters (Table 7)
  • Top 5 metric usefulness