Mabnet: Master Assistant Buddy Network With Hybrid Learning For Image Retrieval

Abstract

Image retrieval has garnered growing interest in recent times. The current approaches are either supervised or self-supervised. These methods do not exploit the benefits of hybrid learning using both supervision and self-supervision. We present a novel Master Assistant Buddy Network (MABNet) for image retrieval which incorporates both learning mechanisms. MABNet consists of master and assistant blocks, both learning independently through supervision and collectively via self-supervision. The master guides the assistant by providing its knowledge base as a reference for self-supervision and the assistant reports its knowledge back to the master by weight transfer. We perform extensive experiments on public datasets with and without post-processing.

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