DINO: Emerging Properties in Self-Supervised Vision Transformers | Paper Explained!

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❤️ Become The AI Epiphany Patreon ❤️ ► https://www.patreon.com/theaiepiphany In this video I cover DINO (self DIstillation with NO labels) introduced in the "Emerging Properties in Self-Supervised Vision Transformers" paper by Facebook AI. The idea is to see whether using supervised learning was preventing transformers from showing the same kind of results in CV as they demonstrated in the NLP world (where we use self-supervised learning objectives such as (masked) language modeling). It turns out some nice properties emerge such as: * DINO-ViT learns to predict segmentation masks * features are especially of high quality for the k-NN classification ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ ✅ Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.14294 ✅ Code: https://github.com/facebookresearch/dino ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ ⌚️ Timetable: 00:00 DINO main ideas, attention maps explained 05:05 DINO explained in depth 10:30 Pseudocode walk-through 13:55 Multi-crop and local-to-global correspondence 15:15 More details on the teacher network 19:00 Results 25:00 Ablations 27:40 Collapse analysis 30:40 Features visualized and outro ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 💰 BECOME A PATREON OF THE AI EPIPHANY ❤️ If these videos, GitHub projects, and blogs help you, consider helping me out by supporting me on Patreon! The AI Epiphany ► https://www.patreon.com/theaiepiphany One-time donation: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/theaiepiphany Much love! ❤️ Huge thank you to these AI Epiphany patreons: Eli Mahler Petar Veličković Zvonimir Sabljic ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 💡 The AI Epiphany is a channel dedicated to simplifying the field of AI using creative visualizations and in general, a stronger focus on geometrical and visual intuition, rather than the algebraic and numerical "intuition". ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 👋 CONNECT WITH ME ON SOCIAL LinkedIn ► https://www.linkedin.com/in/aleksagordic/ Twitter ► https://twitter.com/gordic_aleksa Instagram ► https://www.instagram.com/aiepiphany/ Facebook ► https://www.facebook.com/aiepiphany/ 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 JOIN OUR DISCORD COMMUNITY: Discord ► https://discord.gg/peBrCpheKE 📢 SUBSCRIBE TO MY MONTHLY AI NEWSLETTER: Substack ► https://aiepiphany.substack.com/ 💻 FOLLOW ME ON GITHUB FOR COOL PROJECTS: GitHub ► https://github.com/gordicaleksa 📚 FOLLOW ME ON MEDIUM: Medium ► https://gordicaleksa.medium.com/ ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ #dino #facebook #selfsupervised

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