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What shapes the loss landscape of self-supervised learning?
Liu Ziyin · Ekdeep S Lubana · Masahito Ueda · Hidenori Tanaka
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Prevention of complete and dimensional collapse of representations has recently become a design principle for self-supervised learning (SSL). However, questions remain in our theoretical understanding: Under what precise condition do these collapses occur? We provide theoretically grounded answers to this question by analyzing SSL loss landscapes for a linear model. We derive an analytically tractable theory of SSL landscape and show that it accurately captures an array of collapse phenomena and identifies their causes.

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Liu Ziyin (University of Tokyo)
Ekdeep S Lubana (University of Michigan; CBS, Harvard University)
Masahito Ueda (University of Tokyo)
Hidenori Tanaka (Harvard University, Harvard University)

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