@article{shouldwepretrainadecoderincontrastive, title = {Should we pre-train a decoder in contrastive learning for dense prediction tasks?}, author = {Sébastien Quetin and Tapotosh Ghosh and Farhad Maleki}, year = {2025}, eprint = {2503.17526}, archivePrefix = {arXiv}, url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.17526v1}, }