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Qinyu Li, Yee Whye Teh, Chris Holmes, Joel Jaskari

DiffPT pretrains a classifier backbone by teaching it to predict Gaussian noise added to inputs at varying levels, then fine-tunes that backbone for classification using the same dataset, without unlabeled data. On EyePACS classification with 1% of the training split, DiffPT reaches 0.744 AUROC, versus 0.643 for SimCLR and 0.618 from scratch; this result does not establish superiority across tasks.

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