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Contrastive learning is one of the fastest growing research areas in machine learning due to its ability to learn useful representations without labeled data. However, contrastive learning is susceptible to feature suppression, i.e., it may…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Tianhong Li , Lijie Fan , Yuan Yuan , Hao He , Yonglong Tian , Rogerio Feris , Piotr Indyk , Dina Katabi

The focus of this study is on Unsupervised Continual Learning (UCL), as it presents an alternative to Supervised Continual Learning which needs high-quality manual labeled data. The experiments under the UCL paradigm indicate a phenomenon…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Chen Cheng , Jingkuan Song , Xiaosu Zhu , Junchen Zhu , Lianli Gao , Hengtao Shen

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

Learning discriminative image representations plays a vital role in long-tailed image classification because it can ease the classifier learning in imbalanced cases. Given the promising performance contrastive learning has shown recently in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-29 Peng Wang , Kai Han , Xiu-Shen Wei , Lei Zhang , Lei Wang

Contrastive Language Image Pre-training (CLIP) has recently demonstrated success across various tasks due to superior feature representation empowered by image-text contrastive learning. However, the instance discrimination method used by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-07 Xiang An , Kaicheng Yang , Xiangzi Dai , Ziyong Feng , Jiankang Deng

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

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

Unsupervised learning has always been appealing to machine learning researchers and practitioners, allowing them to avoid an expensive and complicated process of labeling the data. However, unsupervised learning of complex data is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Evgenii Zheltonozhskii , Chaim Baskin , Alex M. Bronstein , Avi Mendelson

Recent advances in unsupervised representation learning often rely on knowing the number of classes to improve feature extraction and clustering. However, this assumption raises an important question: is the number of classes always…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Houwang Jiang , Zhuxian Liu , Guodong Liu , Xiaolong Liu , Shihua Zhan

Though a number of point cloud learning methods have been proposed to handle unordered points, most of them are supervised and require labels for training. By contrast, unsupervised learning of point cloud data has received much less…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-25 Jincen Jiang , Xuequan Lu , Wanli Ouyang , Meili Wang

Contrastive Learning (CL), a leading paradigm in Self-Supervised Learning (SSL), typically relies on pairs of data views generated through augmentation. While multiple augmentations per instance (more than two) improve generalization in…

Multi-view representation learning has developed rapidly over the past decades and has been applied in many fields. However, most previous works assumed that each view is complete and aligned. This leads to an inevitable deterioration in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-10 Yiming Wang , Dongxia Chang , Zhiqiang Fu , Jie Wen , Yao Zhao

Weakly supervised whole slide image classification is usually formulated as a multiple instance learning (MIL) problem, where each slide is treated as a bag, and the patches cut out of it are treated as instances. Existing methods either…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Linhao Qu , Yingfan Ma , Xiaoyuan Luo , Manning Wang , Zhijian Song

Contrastive learning is a promising approach to unsupervised learning, as it inherits the advantages of well-studied deep models without a dedicated and complex model design. In this paper, based on bidirectional encoder representations…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-20 Haoxiang Shi , Cen Wang

Annotating large-scale point clouds is highly time-consuming and often infeasible for many complex real-world tasks. Point cloud pre-training has therefore become a promising strategy for learning discriminative representations without…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Guofeng Mei , Xiaoshui Huang , Juan Liu , Jian Zhang , Qiang Wu

Unsupervised learning of visual similarities is of paramount importance to computer vision, particularly due to lacking training data for fine-grained similarities. Deep learning of similarities is often based on relationships between pairs…

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Intelligent fault diagnosis has made extraordinary advancements currently. Nonetheless, few works tackle class-incremental learning for fault diagnosis under limited fault data, i.e., imbalanced and long-tailed fault diagnosis, which brings…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-14 Peng Peng , Hanrong Zhang , Mengxuan Li , Gongzhuang Peng , Hongwei Wang , Weiming Shen

Unsupervised image representations have significantly reduced the gap with supervised pretraining, notably with the recent achievements of contrastive learning methods. These contrastive methods typically work online and rely on a large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-11 Mathilde Caron , Ishan Misra , Julien Mairal , Priya Goyal , Piotr Bojanowski , Armand Joulin

Real-world data typically follow a long-tailed distribution, where a few majority categories occupy most of the data while most minority categories contain a limited number of samples. Classification models minimizing cross-entropy struggle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-13 Jianggang Zhu , Zheng Wang , Jingjing Chen , Yi-Ping Phoebe Chen , Yu-Gang Jiang

Visual recognition is recently learned via either supervised learning on human-annotated image-label data or language-image contrastive learning with webly-crawled image-text pairs. While supervised learning may result in a more…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-08 Jianwei Yang , Chunyuan Li , Pengchuan Zhang , Bin Xiao , Ce Liu , Lu Yuan , Jianfeng Gao