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Mocomer-v1: attention-guided contrastive pretraining for robust handwritten mathematical expression recognition

Jul 2026 · Signal, Image and Video Processing · Vol 20 · 0 citations · 30 references
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MoCoMER-V1 is presented, an attention-guided self-supervised framework to improve representation learning through addition of channel and spatial attention to a Momentum Contrast (MoCo) pipeline, which achieves competitive performance compared to self-supervised HMER and even surpasses several fully supervised baselines.

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