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Unsupervised learning methods based on contrastive learning have drawn increasing attention and achieved promising results. Most of them aim to learn representations invariant to instance-level variations, which are provided by different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-04 Feng Wang , Huaping Liu , Di Guo , Fuchun Sun

Understanding self-supervised learning is important but challenging. Previous theoretical works study the role of pretraining losses, and view neural networks as general black boxes. However, the recent work of Saunshi et al. argues that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Jeff Z. HaoChen , Tengyu Ma

Contrastive loss has significantly improved performance in supervised classification tasks by using a multi-viewed framework that leverages augmentation and label information. The augmentation enables contrast with another view of a single…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Sangmin Bae , Sungnyun Kim , Jongwoo Ko , Gihun Lee , Seungjong Noh , Se-Young Yun

Self-supervised learning has gained popularity because of its ability to avoid the cost of annotating large-scale datasets. It is capable of adopting self-defined pseudo labels as supervision and use the learned representations for several…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-09 Ashish Jaiswal , Ashwin Ramesh Babu , Mohammad Zaki Zadeh , Debapriya Banerjee , Fillia Makedon

Contrastive learning has become a key component of self-supervised learning approaches for computer vision. By learning to embed two augmented versions of the same image close to each other and to push the embeddings of different images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-07 Yannis Kalantidis , Mert Bulent Sariyildiz , Noe Pion , Philippe Weinzaepfel , Diane Larlus

Clustering is a class of unsupervised learning methods that has been extensively applied and studied in computer vision. Little work has been done to adapt it to the end-to-end training of visual features on large scale datasets. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-19 Mathilde Caron , Piotr Bojanowski , Armand Joulin , Matthijs Douze

Unsupervised disentangled representation learning is a long-standing problem in computer vision. This work proposes a novel framework for performing image clustering from deep embeddings by combining instance-level contrastive learning with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-05 Ramakrishnan Sundareswaran , Jansel Herrera-Gerena , John Just , Ali Jannesari

Self-supervised learning (especially contrastive learning) has attracted great interest due to its huge potential in learning discriminative representations in an unsupervised manner. Despite the acknowledged successes, existing contrastive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Guangrun Wang , Keze Wang , Guangcong Wang , Philip H. S. Torr , Liang Lin

Most of the achievements in artificial intelligence so far were accomplished by supervised learning which requires numerous annotated training data and thus costs innumerable manpower for labeling. Unsupervised learning is one of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-14 Mingxiang Chen , Zhanguo Chang , Haonan Lu , Bitao Yang , Zhuang Li , Liufang Guo , Zhecheng Wang

In the field of image clustering, the widely used contrastive learning networks improve clustering performance by maximizing the similarity between positive pairs and the dissimilarity of negative pairs of the inputs. Extant contrastive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Cheng Wang , Shuisheng Zhou , Fengjiao Peng , Jin Sheng , Feng Ye , Yinli Dong

Multiview clustering (MVC) aims to reveal the underlying structure of multiview data by categorizing data samples into clusters. Deep learning-based methods exhibit strong feature learning capabilities on large-scale datasets. For most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Jie Chen , Hua Mao , Wai Lok Woo , Xi Peng

In this paper, we propose a genuine group-level contrastive visual representation learning method whose linear evaluation performance on ImageNet surpasses the vanilla supervised learning. Two mainstream unsupervised learning schemes are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-14 Bo Pang , Yifan Zhang , Yaoyi Li , Jia Cai , Cewu Lu

Estimating correspondences between pairs of non-rigid deformable 3D shapes remains a significant challenge in computer vision and graphics. While deep functional map methods have become the go-to solution for addressing this problem, they…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Feifan Luo , Hongyang Chen

Supervised learning of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) can require very large amounts of labeled data. Labeling thousands or millions of training examples can be extremely time consuming and costly. One direction towards addressing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-27 Amir Ghaderi , Vassilis Athitsos

Contrastive learning, a dominant self-supervised technique, emphasizes similarity in representations between augmentations of the same input and dissimilarity for different ones. Although low contrastive loss often correlates with high…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-22 Yunzhe Zhang , Yao Lu , Qi Xuan

In continual learning, a system must incrementally learn from a non-stationary data stream without catastrophic forgetting. Recently, multiple methods have been devised for incrementally learning classes on large-scale image classification…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-25 Jhair Gallardo , Tyler L. Hayes , Christopher Kanan

Exemplar learning of visual similarities in an unsupervised manner is a problem of paramount importance to Computer Vision. In this context, however, the recent breakthrough in deep learning could not yet unfold its full potential. With…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-26 Artsiom Sanakoyeu , Miguel A. Bautista , Björn Ommer

Most recent self-supervised learning (SSL) algorithms learn features by contrasting between instances of images or by clustering the images and then contrasting between the image clusters. We introduce a simple mean-shift algorithm that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-13 Soroush Abbasi Koohpayegani , Ajinkya Tejankar , Hamed Pirsiavash

As a pioneering work, PointContrast conducts unsupervised 3D representation learning via leveraging contrastive learning over raw RGB-D frames and proves its effectiveness on various downstream tasks. However, the trend of large-scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-27 Xiaoyang Wu , Xin Wen , Xihui Liu , Hengshuang Zhao

Representation learning has significantly been developed with the advance of contrastive learning methods. Most of those methods have benefited from various data augmentations that are carefully designated to maintain their identities so…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-24 Xiao Wang , Guo-Jun Qi