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Semi-supervised Transformer

Semi-supervised learning with Transformer architectures leverages large quantities of unlabeled data alongside a small labeled set to train powerful sequence models. The dominant pattern — exemplified by BERT — first pre-trains the Transformer on unlabeled data using self-supervised objectives such as masked token prediction, then fine-tunes it on the labeled task. This two-stage approach dramatically reduces the labeled data needed to achieve strong performance.

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  1. Devlin, J., Chang, M.-W., Lee, K., & Toutanova, K. (2019). BERT: Pre-training of Deep Bidirectional Transformers for Language Understanding. Proceedings of NAACL-HLT 2019, 4171–4186. DOI: 10.18653/v1/N19-1423
  2. Zoph, B., Ghiasi, G., Lin, T.-Y., Cui, Y., Liu, H., Cubuk, E. D., & Le, Q. V. (2020). Rethinking Pre-training and Self-training. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 33, 3833–3845. link

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ScholarGateSemi-supervised Transformer (Semi-supervised Learning with Transformer Architectures). Retrieved 2026-06-04 from https://scholargate.app/en/deep-learning/semi-supervised-transformer