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Hello, many thanks for your efforts in introducing LightlyTrain.
I am new to Self-Supervised Learning, and would appreciate your response to a conceptual question I have. As far as I understand, SSL requires a pretext task to be defined and solved, and that pretext tasks are the cornerstone of SSL. In LightlyTrain, how can these tasks be defined or configured during pre-training? Is this the custom augmentation transforms configuration? Is it only available in LightlySSL? I checked the LightlyTrain documentation and haven't found anything on pretext tasks.

Thank you.

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Start by reviewing the LightlyTrain documentation and the LightlySSL configuration mentioned in the question. Determine whether pretext tasks are configurable and where that should be documented; done would be a clear explanation of the configuration path and its relationship to custom augmentation transforms.

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Tech stack
python, pytorch
Domain
documentation, machine-learning
Issue type
Documentation
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
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Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
20/100

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