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Self-Supervised Learning

Learning from unlabeled data by inventing the labels: predict the next word, fill in the masked patch, decide whether two crops came from the same image. This is the idea that unlocked LLMs, since the internet is unlabeled and labeling it is impossible.

Key terms

Pretext taskMasked modelingNext-token predictionContrastive objectiveRepresentation learning

Where you meet it in the real world

LLM pretraining, image encoders like DINO, speech models like Whisper, protein models