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Position: Unlabeled IS NOT Equal to No Human Supervision in Visual Learning

arXiv · AI, language, vision and robotics · article · Sep 2, 2026 · UTC

This position paper argues that the absence of labels does not imply the absence of human supervision in visual learning, and urges the research community to identify sources of supervision more explicitly. Many recent methods in computer vision build upon representations learned from large-scale unlabeled data, and are therefore grouped under the same umbrella term ``unsupervised.'' However, different data curation schemes and training objectives embed substantially different human priors on which models rely, and we argue that one ``unsupervised'' umbrella term is no longer capturing these d

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