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Despite its advantages, LPBF's susceptibility to defects remains a challenge, directly linked to melt pool instability. Real-time melt pool monitoring (MPM) systems offer immediate feedback on melt pool states, which is crucial for identifying potential defects during the LPBF process. Recently, machine learning (ML)-based approaches with these monitoring systems have been introduced for real-time process anomaly detection and classification. However, one major hurdle is the requirement for large volumes of labeled and balanced data for ML model development, which is necessary for accurate process outlier identification and categorization. To address the issues, this article introduces a self-supervised learning-based visual transformer (SiT) for multilabel classification of melt pool anomalies, such as abnormal sizes, irregular shapes, spatters, and plumes. 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