# Self-Supervised Learning

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> Updated: 2026-05-13T21:09:24.372Z
> Type: glossary
> Category: yapay-zeka-temelleri
**TLDR:** An approach that enables strong representation learning by generating supervision signals from the internal structure of the data itself.

<p>Self-supervised learning is one of the hidden but most powerful engines behind the modern AI revolution. In this approach, the system learns without human-provided labels by generating supervision signals from the data’s own structure. Tasks such as predicting missing parts, generating the next word, or reconstructing masked information follow this logic. The success of large language models and many foundation models is built on this approach. The system first learns a broad representation of the world and is then adapted to more specific downstream tasks.</p>