ml-self-supervised-subset-unsupervised

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Self-supervised learning is a special case (subset) of unsupervised learning that generates supervisory signals from the data itself, not a separate paradigm

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• IN self-supervised-paradigm-boundary-contested — Self-supervised learning occupies a contested taxonomic position — formally a subset of unsupervised learning, yet it has become the dominant pre-training paradigm, creating tension between its classification and its practical centrality.