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Self-Supervised Learning

A training approach where the model creates its own labels from the data itself.

Definition

A training approach where the model creates its own labels from the data itself. Masking words and predicting them (BERT) or predicting the next word (GPT) are self-supervised tasks. Enables training on massive unlabeled datasets, which is why it powers most modern AI — labeled data is expensive and scarce.

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