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Kaiwen Hu

3 accepted papers

2025

Projection Head is Secretly an Information Bottleneck

ICLR 2025poster

Recently, contrastive learning has risen to be a promising paradigm for extracting meaningful data representations. Among various special designs, adding a projection head on top of the encoder during training and removing it for downstream tasks has proven to significantly enhance the performance o…

2024

Understanding the Role of Equivariance in Self-supervised Learning

NeurIPS 2024poster

Contrastive learning has been a leading paradigm for self-supervised learning, but it is widely observed that it comes at the price of sacrificing useful features (\eg colors) by being invariant to data augmentations. Given this limitation, there has been a surge of interest in equivariant self-supe…