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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

One more thing: Compared to supervised learning, unsupervised learning methods consistently suffers from less performance drop going from in-distribution to out-of-distribution evaluation! 🤯🤯 More generalisation wins for not using labels. (6/n)