@article{smiefficientselfsupervisedlearningviamut, title = {SMI: Efficient Self-Supervised Learning via Mutual-Information-Inspired Dependency Optimization}, author = {Pritam Mishra and Coloma Ballester and Dimosthenis Karatzas}, year = {2026}, eprint = {2606.08332}, archivePrefix = {arXiv}, url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.08332}, }