What Is Self-Supervised Learning and Why Should You Care?

Boris Meinardus
8 min readJun 20, 2023

“Self-Supervised methods […] are going to be the main method to train neural nets before we train them for difficult tasks” — Yann LeCun

Well! Let’s have a look at this Self-Supervised Learning! The dark matter of intelligence.

But first, let’s take a step back.
We all know that the left image contains a dog and the right image a cat.

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