Failed on benchmark
2026
Mode-Aware Mask Schedule
Train masked predictors with an explicit mixture of high-visibility masks, low-visibility masks, and a small atom at the fully masked input. High-visibility masks preserve ordinary denoising quality, while low-visibility and fully masked examples force the network to learn global mode frequencies that are invisible when nearly all context is shown. Tune the low-visibility mass using unconditional-mode recovery as an auxiliary validation metric.
Paper: On the Identifiability of Masked Prediction: Mode Blindness and Mask Schedules
arXiv:2608.01383