基于互信息正则的频率均衡视网膜表征学习

ICLR 2026 Poster accepted paper at ICLR 2026. We propose a frequency-oriented perspective on retinal representation learning by analyzing masked autoencoders (MAE) through the lens of spatial frequency. Our analysis shows that MAE favors low-frequency content while under-encoding diagnostically critical high-frequency structures in retinal images. Because retinal pathology often manifests in high-frequency detail, this bias limits diagnostic performance and motivates frequency-balanced representations. Within a mutual-information (MI) formulation of MAE, we introduce the Frequency-Balanced Retinal Masked Autoencoder (RetMAE), which augments the reconstruction objective with a MI regularizer that suppresses low-frequency redundancy and accentuates clinically salient high-frequency information.