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PublishedOctober 3, 2026 at 4:00 AM
The hidden advantage of mask resampling: a theory of masked autoencoders
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arXiv:2610.01578v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Why can masked prediction learn useful representations that unmasked reconstruction misses? We study this question in a high-dimensional model of a masked autoencoder (MAE) trained on data with shared latent structure and heterogeneous noise. We prov
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