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# ViTMSN

## Overview

The ViTMSN model was proposed in [Masked Siamese Networks for Label-Efficient Learning](https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.07141) by Mahmoud Assran, Mathilde Caron, Ishan Misra, Piotr Bojanowski, Florian Bordes,
Pascal Vincent, Armand Joulin, Michael Rabbat, Nicolas Ballas. The paper presents a joint-embedding architecture to match the prototypes
of masked patches with that of the unmasked patches. With this setup, their method yields excellent performance in the low-shot and extreme low-shot
regimes.

The abstract from the paper is the following:

*We propose Masked Siamese Networks (MSN), a self-supervised learning framework for learning image representations. Our
approach matches the representation of an image view containing randomly masked patches to the representation of the original
unmasked image. This self-supervised pre-training strategy is particularly scalable when applied to Vision Transformers since only the
unmasked patches are processed by the network. As a result, MSNs improve the scalability of joint-embedding architectures,
while producing representations of a high semantic level that perform competitively on low-shot image classification. For instance,
on ImageNet-1K, with only 5,000 annotated images, our base MSN model achieves 72.4% top-1 accuracy,
and with 1% of ImageNet-1K labels, we achieve 75.7% top-1 accuracy, setting a new state-of-the-art for self-supervised learning on this benchmark.*

Tips:

- MSN (masked siamese networks) is a method for self-supervised pre-training of Vision Transformers (ViTs). The pre-training
objective is to match the prototypes assigned to the unmasked views of the images to that of the masked views of the same images.
- The authors have only released pre-trained weights of the backbone (ImageNet-1k pre-training). So, to use that on your own image classification dataset,
use the [`ViTMSNForImageClassification`] class which is initialized from [`ViTMSNModel`]. Follow
[this notebook](https://github.com/huggingface/notebooks/blob/main/examples/image_classification.ipynb) for a detailed tutorial on fine-tuning.
- MSN is particularly useful in the low-shot and extreme low-shot regimes. Notably, it achieves 75.7% top-1 accuracy with only 1% of ImageNet-1K
labels when fine-tuned.


<img src="https://i.ibb.co/W6PQMdC/Screenshot-2022-09-13-at-9-08-40-AM.png" alt="drawing" width="600"/> 

<small> MSN architecture. Taken from the <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.07141">original paper.</a> </small>

This model was contributed by [sayakpaul](https://huggingface.co/sayakpaul). The original code can be found [here](https://github.com/facebookresearch/msn). 


## ViTMSNConfig

[[autodoc]] ViTMSNConfig


## ViTMSNModel

[[autodoc]] ViTMSNModel
    - forward


## ViTMSNForImageClassification

[[autodoc]] ViTMSNForImageClassification
    - forward