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Momentum Contrast for Unsupervised Visual Representation Learning

CVPR 2020 · Label-efficient and robust learning › Self-supervised and contrastive · approach: Empirical contrastive visual learning · 12,585 citations (OpenAlex)

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Measured effects reported in the paper

What was changedWhereMeasuredEffect
Use a queue and momentum-updated key encoder instead of a memory bank (ablation)MoCo contrastive pretraining · ImageNet linear classificationtop-1 accuracy: 58.0% memory bank; 2.6% worse than MoCoHelped
Use a momentum-updated key encoder rather than momentum 0.9 (ablation)MoCo · ImageNet linear classification, K=4096accuracy: 55.2 -> 59.0Helped
Increase key-encoder momentum from 0.999 to 0.9999 (ablation)MoCo · ImageNet linear classification, K=4096accuracy: 59.0 -> 58.9No clear effect
Remove the momentum update (ablation)MoCo · ImageNet linear classification, K=4096training convergenceHurt
Use MoCo dictionary mechanism rather than end-to-end batch dictionary (ablation)Contrastive pretraining · VOC test2007, Faster R-CNN R50-C4AP: 54.6 -> 55.9Helped
Use MoCo dictionary mechanism rather than memory bank (ablation)Contrastive pretraining · VOC test2007, Faster R-CNN R50-C4AP: 54.9 -> 55.9Helped
Pretrain on Instagram-1B rather than ImageNet-1MMoCo · VOC test2007, Faster R-CNN R50-C4AP: 55.9 -> 57.2Helped
Pretrain on Instagram-1B rather than ImageNet-1MMoCo · LVIS v0.5 instance segmentationmask AP: 24.1 -> 24.9Helped
Pretrain on Instagram-1B rather than ImageNet-1MMoCo · iNaturalist 2018accuracy: 65.6 -> 65.8No clear effect
Pretrain on Instagram-1B rather than ImageNet-1MMoCo · COCO val2017, Mask R-CNN R50-FPN, 2×bbox AP: 40.8 -> 41.1Helped
Pretrain with MoCo rather than ImageNet supervisionResNet-50 features · VOC val2012 semantic segmentationmIoU: 74.4 -> 73.6Hurt
Remove shuffling BN (ablation)MoCo and end-to-end contrastive training · ImageNet pretext training and kNN validationkNN classification accuracyHurt

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