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MIT 6.7960 L11: Representation Learning (Reconstruction-Based) — Autoencoders, VQ, Self-Supervision

Representation learning compresses raw data into a 'useful' vector: autoencoders force a meaningful latent space via reconstruction, VQ discretizes it into a codebook, and self-supervision turns 'mask-and-reconstruct' into free supervision.

MIT 6.7960 L18: Transfer Learning — Pretraining, Feature Extraction, and Fine-Tuning Strategies

Transfer learning's core insight is 'features learned on big data are good general-purpose representations': freeze the backbone and train only a linear head when downstream data is tiny; full fine-tune when data is plentiful; reach for LoRA / adapter when compute is tight. SimCLR and MAE removed the need for upstream labels and pushed downstream quality another notch.