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Much more attention has been paid to unsupervised feature selection nowadays due to the emergence of massive unlabeled data. The distribution of samples and the latent effect of training a learning method using samples in more effective…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-15 Weiyi Li , Hongmei Chen , Tianrui Li , Jihong Wan , Binbin Sang

Supervised learning, while prevalent for information cascade modeling, often requires abundant labeled data in training, and the trained model is not easy to generalize across tasks and datasets. It often learns task-specific…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Xovee Xu , Fan Zhou , Kunpeng Zhang , Siyuan Liu

Self-supervised contrastive learning is a powerful tool to learn visual representation without labels. Prior work has primarily focused on evaluating the recognition accuracy of various pre-training algorithms, but has overlooked other…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-13 Yuanyi Zhong , Haoran Tang , Junkun Chen , Jian Peng , Yu-Xiong Wang

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

Pre-training general-purpose visual features with convolutional neural networks without relying on annotations is a challenging and important task. Most recent efforts in unsupervised feature learning have focused on either small or highly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-14 Mathilde Caron , Piotr Bojanowski , Julien Mairal , Armand Joulin

We investigate contrastive learning in the federated setting through the lens of SimCLR and multi-view mutual information maximization. In doing so, we uncover a connection between contrastive representation learning and user verification;…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-06 Christos Louizos , Matthias Reisser , Denis Korzhenkov

Recently, many unsupervised deep learning methods have been proposed to learn clustering with unlabelled data. By introducing data augmentation, most of the latest methods look into deep clustering from the perspective that the original…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-28 Huasong Zhong , Chong Chen , Zhongming Jin , Xian-Sheng Hua

In this paper we propose a strategy for semi-supervised image classification that leverages unsupervised representation learning and co-training. The strategy, that is called CURL from Co-trained Unsupervised Representation Learning,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-09-14 Simone Bianco , Gianluigi Ciocca , Claudio Cusano

Learning with complete or partial supervision is powerful but relies on ever-growing human annotation efforts. As a way to mitigate this serious problem, as well as to serve specific applications, unsupervised learning has emerged as an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-08 Huy V. Vo , Francis Bach , Minsu Cho , Kai Han , Yann LeCun , Patrick Perez , Jean Ponce

Learning representations for individual instances when only bag-level labels are available is a fundamental challenge in multiple instance learning (MIL). Recent works have shown promising results using contrastive self-supervised learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-13 Kangning Liu , Weicheng Zhu , Yiqiu Shen , Sheng Liu , Narges Razavian , Krzysztof J. Geras , Carlos Fernandez-Granda

Multi-Source Unsupervised Domain Adaptation (multi-source UDA) aims to learn a model from several labeled source domains while performing well on a different target domain where only unlabeled data are available at training time. To align…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-28 Marin Scalbert , Maria Vakalopoulou , Florent Couzinié-Devy

The goal of unsupervised representation learning is to extract a new representation of data, such that solving many different tasks becomes easier. Existing methods typically focus on vectorized data and offer little support for relational…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-09-29 Sebastijan Dumancic , Hendrik Blockeel

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

This paper is concerned with contrastive learning (CL) for low-level image restoration and enhancement tasks. We propose a new label-efficient learning paradigm based on residuals, residual contrastive learning (RCL), and derive an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-28 Nanqing Dong , Matteo Maggioni , Yongxin Yang , Eduardo Pérez-Pellitero , Ales Leonardis , Steven McDonagh

Cross-domain recommendation (CDR) is a task that aims to improve the recommendation performance in a target domain by leveraging the information from source domains. Contrastive learning methods have been widely adopted among intra-domain…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Heng Chang , Liang Gu , Cheng Hu , Zhinan Zhang , Hong Zhu , Yuhui Xu , Yuan Fang , Zhen Chen

Clustering is the task of gathering similar data samples into clusters without using any predefined labels. It has been widely studied in machine learning literature, and recent advancements in deep learning have revived interest in this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-04 Mohammadreza Sadeghi , Hadi Hojjati , Narges Armanfard

Unsupervised person re-ID is the task of identifying people on a target data set for which the ID labels are unavailable during training. In this paper, we propose to unify two trends in unsupervised person re-ID: clustering & fine-tuning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-29 Guillaume Delorme , Yihong Xu , Stephane Lathuilière , Radu Horaud , Xavier Alameda-Pineda

Unsupervised domain adaptation (UDA) aims to transfer knowledge learned from a labeled source domain to an unlabeled target domain. Contrastive learning (CL) in the context of UDA can help to better separate classes in feature space.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-09 Mingxuan Gu , Sulaiman Vesal , Mareike Thies , Zhaoya Pan , Fabian Wagner , Mirabela Rusu , Andreas Maier , Ronak Kosti

Semi-Supervised Learning (SSL) and Unsupervised Domain Adaptation (UDA) enhance the model performance by exploiting information from labeled and unlabeled data. The clustering assumption has proven advantageous for learning with limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Durgesh Singh , Ahcène Boubekki , Robert Jenssen , Michael Kampffmeyer

Multimodal Contrastive Learning (MCL) advances in aligning different modalities and generating multimodal representations in a joint space. By leveraging contrastive learning across diverse modalities, large-scale multimodal data enhances…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Xiaohao Liu , Xiaobo Xia , See-Kiong Ng , Tat-Seng Chua