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How robust are unsupervised representation learning methods (e.g. SSL) to distirbution shift compared to supervised learning?

𝐒𝐡𝐨𝐫𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐰𝐞𝐫: Quite!
𝐋𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐰𝐞𝐫: Our paper arxiv.org/pdf/2206.08871.pdf

Joint work with Imant Daunhawer & Amartya Sanyal @amartya

Yuge (Jimmy) Shi

We find that unsupervised learning methods significantly outperforms supervised ones on synthetic domain generalisation datasets 🤯 (e.g. CdSprites, MNIST-CIFAR)

The curse of simplicity bias observed in supervised learning is successfully avoided by SSL/Autoencoders! (2/n)