Skip to yearly menu bar Skip to main content


Poster

Self-supervised Representation Learning with Relative Predictive Coding

Yao-Hung Hubert Tsai · Martin Ma · Muqiao Yang · Han Zhao · Louis-Philippe Morency · Ruslan Salakhutdinov

Keywords: [ self-supervised learning ] [ contrastive learning ] [ dependency based method ]


Abstract:

This paper introduces Relative Predictive Coding (RPC), a new contrastive representation learning objective that maintains a good balance among training stability, minibatch size sensitivity, and downstream task performance. The key to the success of RPC is two-fold. First, RPC introduces the relative parameters to regularize the objective for boundedness and low variance. Second, RPC contains no logarithm and exponential score functions, which are the main cause of training instability in prior contrastive objectives. We empirically verify the effectiveness of RPC on benchmark vision and speech self-supervised learning tasks. Lastly, we relate RPC with mutual information (MI) estimation, showing RPC can be used to estimate MI with low variance.

Chat is not available.