facebookresearch/barlowtwins

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A PyTorch implementation of Barlow Twins, a self-supervised learning method that trains visual representations by reducing redundancy between embeddings of two augmented views of an image. It includes training and evaluation scripts for ImageNet plus a pretrained ResNet-50 available via PyTorch Hub.

Use cases

• train self-supervised image representations with Barlow Twins
• download a pretrained ResNet-50 backbone for transfer learning
• evaluate self-supervised features with linear probing on ImageNet
• reproduce the Barlow Twins paper results
• run semi-supervised finetuning with limited labels
• learn how self-supervised learning via redundancy reduction works

When to choose

• you want to reproduce or build on the Barlow Twins paper
• you need a pretrained self-supervised ResNet-50 backbone in PyTorch
• you are researching self-supervised representation learning methods

When to avoid

• you need a maintained library with frequent updates and broad model support
• you lack multi-GPU resources, since full training takes ~7 days on 16 V100s
• you want a general-purpose SSL framework rather than a single-method reference implementation

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machine-learning deep-learning machine-learning computer-vision deep-learning python self-supervised-learning pytorch representation-learning research-code pretrained-models resnet gpu linux

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