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Exploring the Limits of Weakly Supervised Pretraining

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Mahajan, Dhruv, Girshick, Ross, Ramanathan, Vignesh, He, Kaiming, Paluri, Manohar, Li, Yixuan, Bharambe, Ashwin, van der Maaten, Laurens·2018·Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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  • Foundation models usually need large and varied datasets to reach their generality.

    “Foundation models typically require large, diverse datasets to achieve their generality (Brown et al., 2020; Mahajan et al., 2018; Schuhmann et al., 2022; Sun et al., 2017; Zhai et al., 2022).”

    From Human-Timescale Adaptation in an Open-Ended Task Space (2023) · cites this paper as Mahajan et al., 2018

    The Introduction (p. 2) reports strong transfer performance from visual models pretrained on billions of images, and the Image Classification Experiments (pp. 8–9) find advantages from a more varied hashtag vocabulary on some tasks. But this evidence concerns visual models and particular transfer tasks; it does not establish that foundation models generally require large, diverse datasets to achieve generality. (LLM, conf=0.86)

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  • ResNext101-WSL was pretrained on a billion-scale corpus of weakly supervised data in addition to ImageNet pretraining.

    “Note that ResNext101-WSL was pretrained on a billion-scale corpus of weakly supervised data [25] in addition to ImageNet pretraining.”

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    Section 2.3 (p. 4) identifies the models as ResNeXt-101, and Section A.5 (p. 23) says they were pretrained on billions of Instagram images using hashtags as labels. But it describes subsequent training on ImageNet as fine-tuning, not additional ImageNet pretraining; Section 3.2 (p. 12) also distinguishes Instagram-pretrained models from ImageNet-pretrained baselines. (LLM, conf=0.88)

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  • In large-scale image recognition, classic ResNet-like architectures are still state of the art.

    “Therefore, in large-scale image recognition, classic ResNetlike architectures are still state of the art (Mahajan et al., 2018; Xie et al., 2020; Kolesnikov et al., 2020).”

    From An Image is Worth 16x16 Words: Transformers for Image Recognition at Scale (2020) · cites this paper as Mahajan et al., 2018

  • In 2018, supervised pre-training was successfully used at Facebook to transfer knowledge of 3.5B public Instagram images and hashtags for generic image classification and object detection.

    “In 2018, supervised pre-training was successfully used at Facebook [193] to transfer knowledge of 3.5B public Instagram images and hashtags for generic image classification and object detection.”

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Authors
Mahajan, D., Girshick, R., Ramanathan, V., He, K., Paluri, M., Li, Y., Bharambe, A., & van der Maaten, L.
Affiliations
Meta (United States) (US)
Corresponding author
Girshick, Ross
Venue
Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Published
2018
Pages
185-201
ISSN
  • 0302-9743 (ISSN-L)
  • 1611-3349
OpenAlex
W2799269579
Cited by
1,224
References
57
Citations by year
2026: 22 · 2025: 95 · 2024: 135 · 2023: 191 · 2022: 171 · 2021: 249 · 2020: 213 · 2019: 120 · 2018: 26 · 2017: 1
FWCI
62.05
Type
conference paper
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Lecture notes in computer science (publishedVersion)
  • arXiv (Cornell University) (submittedVersion)
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Domain Adaptation and Few-Shot Learning
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Advanced Neural Network Applications
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Advanced Image and Video Retrieval Techniques
Keywords
transfer learning, social media images, ImageNet classification, object detection, visual perception model, convolutional neural networks

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