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Image clustering is to group a set of images into disjoint clusters in a way that images in the same cluster are more similar to each other than to those in other clusters, which is an unsupervised or semi-supervised learning process. It is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-15 Bo Dong , Xinnian Wang

Graph clustering, which involves the partitioning of nodes within a graph into disjoint clusters, holds significant importance for numerous subsequent applications. Recently, contrastive learning, known for utilizing supervisory…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Yunhui Liu , Xinyi Gao , Tieke He , Tao Zheng , Jianhua Zhao , Hongzhi Yin

Contrastive pretraining is well-known to improve downstream task performance and model generalisation, especially in limited label settings. However, it is sensitive to the choice of augmentation pipeline. Positive pairs should preserve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Melanie Roschewitz , Fabio De Sousa Ribeiro , Tian Xia , Galvin Khara , Ben Glocker

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

Contrastive learning is a model pre-training technique by first creating similar views of the original data, and then encouraging the data and its corresponding views to be close in the embedding space. Contrastive learning has witnessed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-01 Wei Cui , Rasa Hosseinzadeh , Junwei Ma , Tongzi Wu , Yi Sui , Keyvan Golestan

In this paper, we propose an augmentation-free graph contrastive learning framework, namely ACTIVE, to solve the problem of partial multi-view clustering. Notably, we suppose that the representations of similar samples (i.e., belonging to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-02 Yiming Wang , Dongxia Chang , Zhiqiang Fu , Jie Wen , Yao Zhao

Deep clustering has shown its promising capability in joint representation learning and clustering via deep neural networks. Despite the significant progress, the existing deep clustering works mostly utilize some distribution-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-18 Yuankun Xu , Dong Huang , Chang-Dong Wang , Jian-Huang Lai

Many Click-Through Rate (CTR) prediction works focused on designing advanced architectures to model complex feature interactions but neglected the importance of feature representation learning, e.g., adopting a plain embedding layer for…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-12-02 Fangye Wang , Yingxu Wang , Dongsheng Li , Hansu Gu , Tun Lu , Peng Zhang , Ning Gu

As one of the most effective self-supervised representation learning methods, contrastive learning (CL) relies on multiple negative pairs to contrast against each positive pair. In the standard practice of contrastive learning, data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-18 Lu Wang , Chao Du , Pu Zhao , Chuan Luo , Zhangchi Zhu , Bo Qiao , Wei Zhang , Qingwei Lin , Saravan Rajmohan , Dongmei Zhang , Qi Zhang

Contrastive learning has been shown to produce generalizable representations of audio and visual data by maximizing the lower bound on the mutual information (MI) between different views of an instance. However, obtaining a tight lower…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Shuang Ma , Zhaoyang Zeng , Daniel McDuff , Yale Song

Recommending cold-start items is a long-standing and fundamental challenge in recommender systems. Without any historical interaction on cold-start items, CF scheme fails to use collaborative signals to infer user preference on these items.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-07-16 Yinwei Wei , Xiang Wang , Qi Li , Liqiang Nie , Yan Li , Xuanping Li , Tat-Seng Chua

Self-supervised Contrastive Learning (CL) has been recently shown to be very effective in preventing deep networks from overfitting noisy labels. Despite its empirical success, the theoretical understanding of the effect of contrastive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-06 Yihao Xue , Kyle Whitecross , Baharan Mirzasoleiman

Correlation exploitation is essential for efficient multi-user channel estimation (MUCE) in massive MIMO systems. However, the existing works either rely on presumed strong correlation or learn the correlation through large amount of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-07 Yihan Xu , Lixiang Lian

Real-scene image super-resolution aims to restore real-world low-resolution images into their high-quality versions. A typical RealSR framework usually includes the optimization of multiple criteria which are designed for different image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-27 Yukai Shi , Hao Li , Sen Zhang , Zhijing Yang , Xiao Wang

While Self-Supervised Learning has helped reap the benefit of the scale from the available unlabeled data, the learning paradigms are continuously being bettered. We present a new pre-training strategy named ccc-wav2vec 2.0, which uses…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Vasista Sai Lodagala , Sreyan Ghosh , S. Umesh

Graph-based clustering methods have demonstrated the effectiveness in various applications. Generally, existing graph-based clustering methods first construct a graph to represent the input data and then partition it to generate the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-17 Yuheng Jia , Hui Liu , Junhui Hou , Sam Kwong

Contrastive learning methods train visual encoders by comparing views from one instance to others. Typically, the views created from one instance are set as positive, while views from other instances are negative. This binary instance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-31 Chongjian Ge , Jiangliu Wang , Zhan Tong , Shoufa Chen , Yibing Song , Ping Luo

Representations of events described in text are important for various tasks. In this work, we present SWCC: a Simultaneous Weakly supervised Contrastive learning and Clustering framework for event representation learning. SWCC learns event…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-16 Jun Gao , Wei Wang , Changlong Yu , Huan Zhao , Wilfred Ng , Ruifeng Xu

Cluster discrimination is an effective pretext task for unsupervised representation learning, which often consists of two phases: clustering and discrimination. Clustering is to assign each instance a pseudo label that will be used to learn…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-30 Qi Qian , Yuanhong Xu , Juhua Hu , Hao Li , Rong Jin

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