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@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
 - [RegionViT](#regionvit)
 - [NesT](#nest)
 - [Masked Autoencoder](#masked-autoencoder)
+- [Simple Masked Image Modeling](#simple-masked-image-modeling)
 - [Masked Patch Prediction](#masked-patch-prediction)
 - [Dino](#dino)
 - [Accessing Attention](#accessing-attention)
@@ -519,6 +520,46 @@ img = torch.randn(1, 3, 224, 224)
 pred = nest(img) # (1, 1000)
 ```
 
+## Simple Masked Image Modeling
+
+<img src="./images/simmim.png" width="400px"/>
+
+This <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.09886">paper</a> proposes a simple masked image modeling (SimMIM) scheme, using only a linear projection off the masked tokens into pixel space followed by an L1 loss with the pixel values of the masked patches. Results are competitive with other more complicated approaches.
+
+You can use this as follows
+
+```python
+import torch
+from vit_pytorch import ViT
+from vit_pytorch.simmim import SimMIM
+
+v = ViT(
+    image_size = 256,
+    patch_size = 32,
+    num_classes = 1000,
+    dim = 1024,
+    depth = 6,
+    heads = 8,
+    mlp_dim = 2048
+)
+
+mim = SimMIM(
+    encoder = v,
+    masking_ratio = 0.5  # they found 50% to yield the best results
+)
+
+images = torch.randn(8, 3, 256, 256)
+
+loss = mim(images)
+loss.backward()
+
+# that's all!
+# do the above in a for loop many times with a lot of images and your vision transformer will learn
+
+torch.save(v.state_dict(), './trained-vit.pt')
+```
+
+
 ## Masked Autoencoder
 
 <img src="./images/mae.png" width="400px"/>
@@ -1026,6 +1067,17 @@ Coming from computer vision and new to transformers? Here are some resources tha
 }
 ```
 
+```bibtex
+@misc{xie2021simmim,
+    title   = {SimMIM: A Simple Framework for Masked Image Modeling}, 
+    author  = {Zhenda Xie and Zheng Zhang and Yue Cao and Yutong Lin and Jianmin Bao and Zhuliang Yao and Qi Dai and Han Hu},
+    year    = {2021},
+    eprint  = {2111.09886},
+    archivePrefix = {arXiv},
+    primaryClass = {cs.CV}
+}
+```
+
 ```bibtex
 @misc{vaswani2017attention,
     title   = {Attention Is All You Need},
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@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ from setuptools import setup, find_packages
 setup(
   name = 'vit-pytorch',
   packages = find_packages(exclude=['examples']),
-  version = '0.22.0',
+  version = '0.23.0',
   license='MIT',
   description = 'Vision Transformer (ViT) - Pytorch',
   author = 'Phil Wang',
diff --git a/vit_pytorch/simmim.py b/vit_pytorch/simmim.py
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+++ b/vit_pytorch/simmim.py
@@ -0,0 +1,87 @@
+import torch
+from torch import nn
+import torch.nn.functional as F
+from einops import repeat
+
+from vit_pytorch.vit import Transformer
+
+class SimMIM(nn.Module):
+    def __init__(
+        self,
+        *,
+        encoder,
+        masking_ratio = 0.5
+    ):
+        super().__init__()
+        assert masking_ratio > 0 and masking_ratio < 1, 'masking ratio must be kept between 0 and 1'
+        self.masking_ratio = masking_ratio
+
+        # extract some hyperparameters and functions from encoder (vision transformer to be trained)
+
+        self.encoder = encoder
+        num_patches, encoder_dim = encoder.pos_embedding.shape[-2:]
+        self.to_patch, self.patch_to_emb = encoder.to_patch_embedding[:2]
+        pixel_values_per_patch = self.patch_to_emb.weight.shape[-1]
+
+        # simple linear head
+
+        self.mask_token = nn.Parameter(torch.randn(encoder_dim))
+        self.to_pixels = nn.Linear(encoder_dim, pixel_values_per_patch)
+
+    def forward(self, img):
+        device = img.device
+
+        # get patches
+
+        patches = self.to_patch(img)
+        batch, num_patches, *_ = patches.shape
+
+        # for indexing purposes
+
+        batch_range = torch.arange(batch, device = device)[:, None]
+
+        # get positions
+
+        pos_emb = self.encoder.pos_embedding[:, 1:(num_patches + 1)]
+
+        # patch to encoder tokens and add positions
+
+        tokens = self.patch_to_emb(patches)
+        tokens = tokens + pos_emb
+
+        # prepare mask tokens
+
+        mask_tokens = repeat(self.mask_token, 'd -> b n d', b = batch, n = num_patches)
+        mask_tokens = mask_tokens + pos_emb
+
+        # calculate of patches needed to be masked, and get random indices, dividing it up for mask vs unmasked
+
+        num_masked = int(self.masking_ratio * num_patches)
+        rand_indices = torch.rand(batch, num_patches, device = device).argsort(dim = -1)
+        masked_indices = rand_indices[:, :num_masked]
+        masked_bool_mask = torch.zeros((batch, num_patches), device = device).scatter_(-1, masked_indices, 1).bool()
+
+        # mask tokens
+
+        tokens = torch.where(masked_bool_mask[..., None], mask_tokens, tokens)
+
+        # attend with vision transformer
+
+        encoded = self.encoder.transformer(tokens)
+
+        # get the masked tokens
+
+        encoded_mask_tokens = encoded[batch_range, masked_indices]
+
+        # small linear projection for predicted pixel values
+
+        pred_pixel_values = self.to_pixels(encoded_mask_tokens)
+
+        # get the masked patches for the final reconstruction loss
+
+        masked_patches = patches[batch_range, masked_indices]
+
+        # calculate reconstruction loss
+
+        recon_loss = F.l1_loss(pred_pixel_values, masked_patches) / num_masked
+        return recon_loss