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res:
  bibo_abstract:
  - 'We introduce NeCo: Patch Neighbor Consistency, a novel self-supervised training
    loss that enforces patch-level nearest neighbor consistency across a student and
    teacher model. Compared to contrastive approaches that only yield binary learning
    signals, i.e. "attract" and "repel", this approach benefits from the more fine-grained
    learning signal of sorting spatially dense features relative to reference patches.
    Our method leverages differentiable sorting applied on top of pretrained representations,
    such as DINOv2-registers to bootstrap the learning signal and further improve
    upon them. This dense post-pretraining leads to superior performance across various
    models and datasets, despite requiring only 19 hours on a single GPU. This method
    generates high-quality dense feature encoders and establishes several new state-of-the-art
    results such as +2.3 % and +4.2% for non-parametric in-context semantic segmentation
    on ADE20k and Pascal VOC, +1.6% and +4.8% for linear segmentation evaluations
    on COCO-Things and -Stuff and improvements in the 3D understanding of multi-view
    consistency on SPair-71k, by more than 1.5%.@eng'
  bibo_authorlist:
  - foaf_Person:
      foaf_givenName: Valentinos
      foaf_name: Pariza, Valentinos
      foaf_surname: Pariza
  - foaf_Person:
      foaf_givenName: Mohammadreza
      foaf_name: Salehi, Mohammadreza
      foaf_surname: Salehi
  - foaf_Person:
      foaf_givenName: Gertjan
      foaf_name: Burghouts, Gertjan
      foaf_surname: Burghouts
  - foaf_Person:
      foaf_givenName: Francesco
      foaf_name: Locatello, Francesco
      foaf_surname: Locatello
      foaf_workInfoHomepage: http://www.librecat.org/personId=26cfd52f-2483-11ee-8040-88983bcc06d4
    orcid: 0000-0002-4850-0683
  - foaf_Person:
      foaf_givenName: Yuki M.
      foaf_name: Asano, Yuki M.
      foaf_surname: Asano
  dct_date: 2025^xs_gYear
  dct_isPartOf:
  - http://id.crossref.org/issn/9798331320850
  dct_language: eng
  dct_publisher: ICLR@
  dct_title: 'Near, far: Patch-ordering enhances vision foundation models'' scene
    understanding@'
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