2026
Suppressing Non-Semantic Noise in Masked Image Modeling Representations
Martine Hjelkrem-Tan, Marius Aasan, Rwiddhi Chakraborty, Gabriel Y. Arteaga, Changkyu Choi, Adín Ramírez Rivera
CVPR 2026
Masked Image Modeling (MIM) has become a ubiquitous self-supervised vision paradigm. In this work, we show that MIM objectives cause the learned representations to retain non-semantic information, which ultimately hurts performance during inference. We introduce a model-agnostic score for semantic i