Facebook Researcher's New Algorithm Ushers New Paradigm Of Image Recognition

"VICReg could be used to model the dependencies between a video clip and the frame that comes after, therefore learning to predict the future in a video." Humans have an innate capability to identify objects in the wild, even from a blurred glimpse of the thing. We do this efficiently by remembering only high-level features that get the job done (identification) and ignoring the details unless required. In the context of deep learning algorithms that do object detection, contrastive learning explored the premise of representation learning to obtain a large picture instead of doing the heavy lifting by devouring pixel-level details. But, contrastive learning has its own limitations.