Understanding Self Supervised Learning, with Examples

Shiva Verma
5 min readMar 26, 2022
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You must be familiar with the terms supervised and unsupervised learning. Somewhere between these two methods, we have something called self-supervised learning, which can solve really interesting problems.

To understand self-supervised learning properly, let’s briefly discuss supervised and unsupervised learning first.

Supervised learning

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