A Self-supervised Support Vector Machine combines self-supervised pretraining — learning representations from unlabeled data via pretext tasks — with a Support Vector Machine classifier trained on the resulting features. This hybrid approach enables strong classification performance even when labeled data is scarce, by leveraging the structure embedded in large unlabeled datasets before applying the SVM's margin-maximization objective.
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