Self-Supervised Representation Learning as Mutual Information Maximization

arXiv:2510.01345 · cs.LG · Submitted 2025-10-01 · Read on arXiv

cs.LG

Submitted: 2025-10-01

Updated: 2026-09-29

Code: https://github.com/AkhlaqurRahmanSabby/SSRL-as-MI-Maximization

Terminology

• Mutual Information — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Representation Learning — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Distillation — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Self-Distillation — 1× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Structural Constraints — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

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• A Cookbook of Self-Supervised Learning
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• The Common Stability Mechanism behind most Self-Supervised Learning Approaches
• Representation Learning with Contrastive Predictive Coding
• Run Away From your Teacher: Understanding BYOL by a Novel Self-Supervised Approach
• A Note on Connecting Barlow Twins with Negative-Sample-Free Contrastive Learning
• Towards Demystifying Representation Learning with Non-contrastive Self-supervision

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