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Self-supervised learning — Glossary

Creating training signals from the data itself, such as predicting masked tokens.

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Self-supervision enables pretraining at web scale without manual labels for every task. It underpins modern foundation models in language and vision.

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Self-Supervised Learning — Self-supervised learning creates training signals from the data itself—such as predicting masked words or corrupted patches—so models learn representations…

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