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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

Labeling data is often very time consuming and expensive, leaving us with a majority of unlabeled data. Self-supervised representation learning methods such as SimCLR (Chen et al., 2020) or BYOL (Grill et al., 2020) have been very…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Zhaohan Daniel Guo , Bernardo Avila Pires , Khimya Khetarpal , Dale Schuurmans , Bo Dai

Image-Text Retrieval (ITR) is challenging in bridging visual and lingual modalities. Contrastive learning has been adopted by most prior arts. Except for limited amount of negative image-text pairs, the capability of constrastive learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Haoran Wang , Dongliang He , Wenhao Wu , Boyang Xia , Min Yang , Fu Li , Yunlong Yu , Zhong Ji , Errui Ding , Jingdong Wang

Curriculum learning can improve neural network training by guiding the optimization to desirable optima. We propose a novel curriculum learning approach for image classification that adapts the loss function by changing the label…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-24 Urun Dogan , Aniket Anand Deshmukh , Marcin Machura , Christian Igel

Environmental Sound Classification (ESC) is a challenging field of research in non-speech audio processing. Most of current research in ESC focuses on designing deep models with special architectures tailored for specific audio datasets,…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-03-03 Alireza Nasiri , Jianjun Hu

Contrastive learning has emerged as a prominent branch of self-supervised learning for several years. Especially, CLIP, which applies contrastive learning to large sets of captioned images, has garnered significant attention. Recently,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-21 Chungpa Lee , Joonhwan Chang , Jy-yong Sohn

Labeling a classification dataset implies to define classes and associated coarse labels, that may approximate a smoother and more complicated ground truth. For example, natural images may contain multiple objects, only one of which is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-09 Raphael Baena , Lucas Drumetz , Vincent Gripon

Composed Image Retrieval (CIR) is an emerging yet challenging task that allows users to search for target images using a multimodal query, comprising a reference image and a modification text specifying the user's desired changes to the…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Xuemeng Song , Haoqiang Lin , Haokun Wen , Bohan Hou , Mingzhu Xu , Liqiang Nie

Complementary-label learning (CLL) is a weakly supervised paradigm where instances are labeled with classes they do not belong to. Despite a decade of research, CLL methods remain competitive mainly on 10-class classification, with scaling…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Tan-Ha Mai , Chao-Kai Chiang , Han-Hwa Shih , Gang Niu , Masashi Sugiyama , Hsuan-Tien Lin

Prompt learning has emerged as a powerful paradigm for adapting vision-language models such as CLIP to downstream tasks. However, existing methods often overfit to seen data, leading to significant performance degradation when generalizing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Niloufar Alipour Talemi , Hossein Kashiani , Hossein R. Nowdeh , Fatemeh Afghah

Recent breakthroughs in the field of semi-supervised learning have achieved results that match state-of-the-art traditional supervised learning methods. Most successful semi-supervised learning approaches in computer vision focus on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-03 Khoi Nguyen , Yen Nguyen , Bao Le

We introduce Cluster Contrast (CueCo), a novel approach to unsupervised visual representation learning that effectively combines the strengths of contrastive learning and clustering methods. Inspired by recent advancements, CueCo is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Nikolaos Giakoumoglou , Tania Stathaki

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

Contrastive learning has been applied to Human Activity Recognition (HAR) based on sensor data owing to its ability to achieve performance comparable to supervised learning with a large amount of unlabeled data and a small amount of labeled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-24 Jinqiang Wang , Tao Zhu , Liming Chen , Huansheng Ning , Yaping Wan

Deep learning has demonstrated its power in image rectification by leveraging the representation capacity of deep neural networks via supervised training based on a large-scale synthetic dataset. However, the model may overfit the synthetic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-21 Jinlong Fan , Jing Zhang , Dacheng Tao

Modern neural network classifiers achieve remarkable performance across a variety of tasks; however, they frequently exhibit overconfidence in their predictions due to the cross-entropy loss. Inspired by this problem, we propose the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-25 Brendan Hogan Rappazzo , Aaron Ferber , Carla Gomes

Recently, contrastive learning has achieved great results in self-supervised learning, where the main idea is to push two augmentations of an image (positive pairs) closer compared to other random images (negative pairs). We argue that not…

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

Is it possible to train several classifiers to perform meaningful crowd-sourcing to produce a better prediction label set without ground-truth annotation? This paper will modify the contrastive learning objectives to automatically train a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Sue Sin Chong

Recently, there have been numerous attempts to enhance the sample efficiency of off-policy reinforcement learning (RL) agents when interacting with the environment, including architecture improvements and new algorithms. Despite these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Jiafei Lyu , Jingwen Yang , Zhongjian Qiao , Runze Liu , Zeyuan Liu , Deheng Ye , Zongqing Lu , Xiu Li

Learning good representations involves capturing the diverse ways in which data samples relate. Contrastive loss - an objective matching related samples - underlies methods from self-supervised to multimodal learning. Contrastive losses,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-13 Vlad Sobal , Mark Ibrahim , Randall Balestriero , Vivien Cabannes , Diane Bouchacourt , Pietro Astolfi , Kyunghyun Cho , Yann LeCun