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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

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

Vision-language models (VLMs), such as CLIP, have shown strong generalization under zero-shot settings, yet adapting them to downstream tasks with limited supervision remains a significant challenge. Existing multi-modal prompt learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Silin Cheng , Kai Han

Various state-of-the-art self-supervised visual representation learning approaches take advantage of data from multiple sensors by aligning the feature representations across views and/or modalities. In this work, we investigate how…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Thomas M. Hehn , Julian F. P. Kooij , Dariu M. Gavrila

Medical vision-language pretraining (VLP) models have recently been investigated for their generalization to diverse downstream tasks. However, current medical VLP methods typically force the model to learn simple and complex concepts…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Chenran Zhang , Ruiqi Wu , Tao Zhou , Yi Zhou

Existing vision-language pre-training (VLP) methods primarily rely on paired image-text datasets, which are either annotated by enormous human labors, or crawled from the internet followed by elaborate data cleaning techniques. To reduce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-20 Teng Wang , Wenhao Jiang , Zhichao Lu , Feng Zheng , Ran Cheng , Chengguo Yin , Ping Luo

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

Recent CLIP-like Vision-Language Models (VLMs), pre-trained on large amounts of image-text pairs to align both modalities with a simple contrastive objective, have paved the way to open-vocabulary semantic segmentation. Given an arbitrary…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Monika Wysoczańska , Antonin Vobecky , Amaia Cardiel , Tomasz Trzciński , Renaud Marlet , Andrei Bursuc , Oriane Siméoni

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) achieve strong cross-modal performance, yet recent evidence suggests they over-rely on textual descriptions while under-utilizing visual evidence -- a phenomenon termed ``text shortcut learning.'' We propose an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Lijie Zhou

Sign language recognition (SLR) is a weakly supervised task that annotates sign videos as textual glosses. Recent studies show that insufficient training caused by the lack of large-scale available sign datasets becomes the main bottleneck…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-13 Jiangbin Zheng , Yile Wang , Cheng Tan , Siyuan Li , Ge Wang , Jun Xia , Yidong Chen , Stan Z. Li

Recent multimodal models such as Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) have shown remarkable ability to align visual and linguistic representations. However, domains where small visual differences carry large semantic significance,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Hiroshi Sasaki

Contrastive learning has emerged as an efficient framework to learn multimodal representations. CLIP, a seminal work in this area, achieved impressive results by training on paired image-text data using the contrastive loss. Recent work…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Enrico Fini , Pietro Astolfi , Adriana Romero-Soriano , Jakob Verbeek , Michal Drozdzal

Although an object may appear in numerous contexts, we often describe it in a limited number of ways. Language allows us to abstract away visual variation to represent and communicate concepts. Building on this intuition, we propose an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-30 Mohamed El Banani , Karan Desai , Justin Johnson

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have demonstrated remarkable success across diverse visual tasks, yet their performance degrades in complex visual environments. While existing enhancement approaches require additional training, rely on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Yuyao Ge , Shenghua Liu , Yiwei Wang , Lingrui Mei , Baolong Bi , Xuanshan Zhou , Jiayu Yao , Jiafeng Guo , Xueqi Cheng

Multimodality Representation Learning, as a technique of learning to embed information from different modalities and their correlations, has achieved remarkable success on a variety of applications, such as Visual Question Answering (VQA),…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-03-04 Muhammad Arslan Manzoor , Sarah Albarri , Ziting Xian , Zaiqiao Meng , Preslav Nakov , Shangsong Liang

Video contrastive learning (V-CL) has emerged as a popular framework for unsupervised video representation learning, demonstrating strong results in tasks such as action classification and detection. Yet, to harness these benefits, it is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Zeen Song , Wenwen Qiang , Changwen Zheng , Hui Xiong , Gang Hua

Self-supervised contrastive learning has demonstrated great potential in learning visual representations. Despite their success in various downstream tasks such as image classification and object detection, self-supervised pre-training for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-12 Di Wu , Siyuan Li , Zelin Zang , Stan Z. Li

Many vision-language models (VLMs) that prove very effective at a range of multimodal task, build on CLIP-based vision encoders, which are known to have various limitations. We investigate the hypothesis that the strong language backbone in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Sho Takishita , Jay Gala , Abdelrahman Mohamed , Kentaro Inui , Yova Kementchedjhieva

Multi-label image classification presents a challenging task in many domains, including computer vision and medical imaging. Recent advancements have introduced graph-based and transformer-based methods to improve performance and capture…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-15 Ahmad Sajedi , Samir Khaki , Yuri A. Lawryshyn , Konstantinos N. Plataniotis

Self-supervised contrastive learning offers a means of learning informative features from a pool of unlabeled data. In this paper, we delve into another useful approach -- providing a way of selecting a core-set that is entirely unlabeled.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-08 Jeongwoo Ju , Heechul Jung , Yoonju Oh , Junmo Kim