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Although large-scale labeled data are essential for deep convolutional neural networks (ConvNets) to learn high-level semantic visual representations, it is time-consuming and impractical to collect and annotate large-scale datasets. A…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-06 Huili Huang , M. Mahdi Roozbahani

Recently, contrastive learning (CL) has emerged as a successful method for unsupervised graph representation learning. Most graph CL methods first perform stochastic augmentation on the input graph to obtain two graph views and maximize the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-01 Yanqiao Zhu , Yichen Xu , Feng Yu , Qiang Liu , Shu Wu , Liang Wang

Collaborative learning enables distributed clients to learn a shared model for prediction while keeping the training data local on each client. However, existing collaborative learning methods require fully-labeled data for training, which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Yawen Wu , Zhepeng Wang , Dewen Zeng , Meng Li , Yiyu Shi , Jingtong Hu

Recently, contrastive self-supervised learning has become a key component for learning visual representations across many computer vision tasks and benchmarks. However, contrastive learning in the context of domain adaptation remains…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-25 Mamatha Thota , Georgios Leontidis

Contrastive representation learning seeks to acquire useful representations by estimating the shared information between multiple views of data. Here, the choice of data augmentation is sensitive to the quality of learned representations:…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-01-18 Kyungmin Lee , Jinwoo Shin

We present a new framework for self-supervised representation learning by formulating it as a ranking problem in an image retrieval context on a large number of random views (augmentations) obtained from images. Our work is based on two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-23 Ali Varamesh , Ali Diba , Tinne Tuytelaars , Luc Van Gool

Self-Supervised Learning (SSL) is a paradigm that leverages unlabeled data for model training. Empirical studies show that SSL can achieve promising performance in distribution shift scenarios, where the downstream and training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-13 Xuyang Zhao , Tianqi Du , Yisen Wang , Jun Yao , Weiran Huang

While contrastive learning (CL) shows considerable promise in self-supervised representation learning, its deployment on resource-constrained devices remains largely underexplored. The substantial computational demands required for training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Fernanda Famá , Roberto Pereira , Charalampos Kalalas , Paolo Dini , Lorena Qendro , Fahim Kawsar , Mohammad Malekzadeh

In the image domain, excellent representations can be learned by inducing invariance to content-preserving transformations via noise contrastive learning. In this paper, we generalize contrastive learning to a wider set of transformations,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-28 Mandela Patrick , Yuki M. Asano , Polina Kuznetsova , Ruth Fong , João F. Henriques , Geoffrey Zweig , Andrea Vedaldi

Recently, contrastive learning has been shown to be effective in improving pre-trained language models (PLM) to derive high-quality sentence representations. It aims to pull close positive examples to enhance the alignment while push apart…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Kun Zhou , Beichen Zhang , Wayne Xin Zhao , Ji-Rong Wen

Many Click-Through Rate (CTR) prediction works focused on designing advanced architectures to model complex feature interactions but neglected the importance of feature representation learning, e.g., adopting a plain embedding layer for…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-12-02 Fangye Wang , Yingxu Wang , Dongsheng Li , Hansu Gu , Tun Lu , Peng Zhang , Ning Gu

Contrastive Learning (CL) performances as a rising approach to address the challenge of sparse and noisy recommendation data. Although having achieved promising results, most existing CL methods only perform either hand-crafted data or…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-11-22 Xiuyuan Qin , Huanhuan Yuan , Pengpeng Zhao , Junhua Fang , Fuzhen Zhuang , Guanfeng Liu , Victor Sheng

Disease diagnosis from medical images via supervised learning is usually dependent on tedious, error-prone, and costly image labeling by medical experts. Alternatively, semi-supervised learning and self-supervised learning offer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-14 Attiano Purpura-Pontoniere , Demetri Terzopoulos , Adam Wang , Abdullah-Al-Zubaer Imran

Contrastive learning has been widely applied to graph representation learning, where the view generators play a vital role in generating effective contrastive samples. Most of the existing contrastive learning methods employ pre-defined…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-04 Yihang Yin , Qingzhong Wang , Siyu Huang , Haoyi Xiong , Xiang Zhang

Vision-language models (VLMs) mainly rely on contrastive training to learn general-purpose representations of images and captions. We focus on the situation when one image is associated with several captions, each caption containing both…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-02 Maurits Bleeker , Mariya Hendriksen , Andrew Yates , Maarten de Rijke

Feature extraction is an efficient approach for alleviating the issue of dimensionality in high-dimensional data. As a popular self-supervised learning method, contrastive learning has recently garnered considerable attention. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Hongjie Zhang

Contrastive learning (CL) is a popular technique for self-supervised learning (SSL) of visual representations. It uses pairs of augmentations of unlabeled training examples to define a classification task for pretext learning of a deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-26 Chih-Hui Ho , Nuno Vasconcelos

We investigate a strategy for improving the efficiency of contrastive learning of visual representations by leveraging a small amount of supervised information during pre-training. We propose a semi-supervised loss, SuNCEt, based on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-03 Mahmoud Assran , Nicolas Ballas , Lluis Castrejon , Michael Rabbat

Contrastive Language-Image Pretraining (CLIP) achieves strong generalization in vision-language tasks by aligning images and texts in a shared embedding space. However, recent findings show that CLIP-like models still underutilize…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Weiheng Zhao , Zilong Huang , Jiashi Feng , Xinggang Wang

Although automated pathology classification using deep learning (DL) has proved to be predictively efficient, DL methods are found to be data and compute cost intensive. In this work, we aim to reduce DL training costs by pre-training a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-11 Sohini Roychowdhury , Kwok Sun Tang , Mohith Ashok , Anoop Sanka