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Contrastive learning has recently emerged as a promising approach for learning data representations that discover and disentangle the explanatory factors of the data. Previous analyses of such approaches have largely focused on individual…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-09 Stefan Matthes , Zhiwei Han , Hao Shen

Knowledge graphs represent information as structured triples and serve as the backbone for a wide range of applications, including question answering, link prediction, and recommendation systems. A prominent line of research for exploring…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Rita T. Sousa , Heiko Paulheim

Text embedding models play a crucial role in natural language processing, particularly in information retrieval, and their importance is further highlighted with the recent utilization of RAG (Retrieval- Augmented Generation). This study…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Jeongsu Yu

We propose a framework using contrastive learning as a pre-training task to perform image classification in the presence of noisy labels. Recent strategies such as pseudo-labeling, sample selection with Gaussian Mixture models, weighted…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-21 Madalina Ciortan , Romain Dupuis , Thomas Peel

Contrastive learning relies on an assumption that positive pairs contain related views, e.g., patches of an image or co-occurring multimodal signals of a video, that share certain underlying information about an instance. But what if this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-13 Ching-Yao Chuang , R Devon Hjelm , Xin Wang , Vibhav Vineet , Neel Joshi , Antonio Torralba , Stefanie Jegelka , Yale Song

Contrastive learning-based methods, such as unsup-SimCSE, have achieved state-of-the-art (SOTA) performances in learning unsupervised sentence embeddings. However, in previous studies, each embedding used for contrastive learning only…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-19 Hongliang He , Junlei Zhang , Zhenzhong Lan , Yue Zhang

We introduce ANTIDOTE, a new class of objectives for learning under noisy labels which are defined in terms of a relaxation over an information-divergence neighborhood. Using convex duality, we provide a reformulation as an adversarial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Jeremiah Birrell , Reza Ebrahimi

Graph contrastive learning (GCL) aims to contrast positive-negative counterparts to learn the node embeddings, whereas graph data augmentation methods are employed to generate these positive-negative samples. The variation, quantity, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Adnan Ali , Jinlong Li , Huanhuan Chen , Ali Kashif Bashir

Most Neural Networks (NNs) for classification are trained using Cross-Entropy as a loss function. This approach requires the model to have an explicit classification layer. However, there exist alternative approaches, such as Contrastive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Leonardo Arrighi , Julia Eva Belloni , Aurélie Gallet , Ivan Gentile , Matteo Lippi , Marco Zullich

Deep neural networks trained with standard cross-entropy loss are more prone to memorize noisy labels, which degrades their performance. Negative learning using complementary labels is more robust when noisy labels intervene but with an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Chen-Chen Zong , Zheng-Tao Cao , Hong-Tao Guo , Yun Du , Ming-Kun Xie , Shao-Yuan Li , Sheng-Jun Huang

Inspired by the impressive success of contrastive learning (CL), a variety of graph augmentation strategies have been employed to learn node representations in a self-supervised manner. Existing methods construct the contrastive samples by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-14 Peiyao Zhao , Yuangang Pan , Xin Li , Xu Chen , Ivor W. Tsang , Lejian Liao

We present GTE, a general-purpose text embedding model trained with multi-stage contrastive learning. In line with recent advancements in unifying various NLP tasks into a single format, we train a unified text embedding model by employing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Zehan Li , Xin Zhang , Yanzhao Zhang , Dingkun Long , Pengjun Xie , Meishan Zhang

Contrastive learning has become a key component of self-supervised learning approaches for graph-structured data. Despite their success, existing graph contrastive learning methods are incapable of uncertainty quantification for node…

Graph contrastive learning has shown great promise when labeled data is scarce, but large unlabeled datasets are available. However, it often does not take uncertainty estimation into account. We show that a variational Bayesian neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-04 Alexander Möllers , Alexander Immer , Elvin Isufi , Vincent Fortuin

Knowledge representation learning aims at modeling knowledge graph by encoding entities and relations into a low dimensional space. Most of the traditional works for knowledge embedding need negative sampling to minimize a margin-based…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-10-01 Peifeng Wang , Shuangyin Li , Rong pan

This paper proposes a method for representation learning of multimodal data using contrastive losses. A traditional approach is to contrast different modalities to learn the information shared between them. However, that approach could fail…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-07 Yunze Liu , Qingnan Fan , Shanghang Zhang , Hao Dong , Thomas Funkhouser , Li Yi

Modern natural language processing (NLP) methods employ self-supervised pretraining objectives such as masked language modeling to boost the performance of various application tasks. These pretraining methods are frequently extended with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-26 Nils Rethmeier , Isabelle Augenstein

Recently, self-supervised representation learning gives further development in multimedia technology. Most existing self-supervised learning methods are applicable to packaged data. However, when it comes to streamed data, they are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-03 Zhiwei Lin , Yongtao Wang , Hongxiang Lin

Two recently introduced criteria for estimation of generative models are both based on a reduction to binary classification. Noise-contrastive estimation (NCE) is an estimation procedure in which a generative model is trained to be able to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-05-22 Ian J. Goodfellow

Contrastive learning has become pivotal in unsupervised representation learning, with frameworks like Momentum Contrast (MoCo) effectively utilizing large negative sample sets to extract discriminative features. However, traditional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-29 Duy Hoang , Huy Ngo , Khoi Pham , Tri Nguyen , Gia Bao , Huy Phan