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Unsupervised representation learning aims at finding methods that learn representations from data without annotation-based signals. Abstaining from annotations not only leads to economic benefits but may - and to some extent already does -…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-04 Bonifaz Stuhr

Self-supervised representation learning has achieved remarkable success in recent years. By subverting the need for supervised labels, such approaches are able to utilize the numerous unlabeled images that exist on the Internet and in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-01 Yilun Du , Chuang Gan , Phillip Isola

Pre-training Reinforcement Learning agents in a task-agnostic manner has shown promising results. However, previous works still struggle in learning and discovering meaningful skills in high-dimensional state-spaces, such as pixel-spaces.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-07-20 Juan José Nieto , Roger Creus , Xavier Giro-i-Nieto

Unsupervised representation learning has significantly advanced various machine learning tasks. In the computer vision domain, state-of-the-art approaches utilize transformations like random crop and color jitter to achieve invariant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-16 Jaemyung Yu , Jaehyun Choi , Dong-Jae Lee , HyeongGwon Hong , Junmo Kim

Self-supervised Learning (SSL) including the mainstream contrastive learning has achieved great success in learning visual representations without data annotations. However, most of methods mainly focus on the instance level information…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-26 Mingkai Zheng , Shan You , Fei Wang , Chen Qian , Changshui Zhang , Xiaogang Wang , Chang Xu

In value-based reinforcement learning (RL), unlike in supervised learning, the agent faces not a single, stationary, approximation problem, but a sequence of value prediction problems. Each time the policy improves, the nature of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-05 Will Dabney , André Barreto , Mark Rowland , Robert Dadashi , John Quan , Marc G. Bellemare , David Silver

We introduce a conceptually simple yet effective model for self-supervised representation learning with graph data. It follows the previous methods that generate two views of an input graph through data augmentation. However, unlike…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-29 Hengrui Zhang , Qitian Wu , Junchi Yan , David Wipf , Philip S. Yu

Recent advances in self-supervised learning (SSL) using large models to learn visual representations from natural images are rapidly closing the gap between the results produced by fully supervised learning and those produced by SSL on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-03 Weiyao Wang , Byung-Hak Kim , Varun Ganapathi

Recent self-supervised representation learning techniques have largely closed the gap between supervised and unsupervised learning on ImageNet classification. While the particulars of pretraining on ImageNet are now relatively well…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Elijah Cole , Xuan Yang , Kimberly Wilber , Oisin Mac Aodha , Serge Belongie

Reasoning-based image quality assessment (IQA) models trained through reinforcement learning (RL) exhibit exceptional generalization, yet the underlying mechanisms and critical factors driving this capability remain underexplored in current…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Shijie Zhao , Xuanyu Zhang , Weiqi Li , Junlin Li , Li Zhang , Tianfan Xue , Jian Zhang

The emergence of in-context learning (ICL) enables large pre-trained language models (PLMs) to make predictions for unseen inputs without updating parameters. Despite its potential, ICL's effectiveness heavily relies on the quality,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Xiaoling Zhou , Wei Ye , Yidong Wang , Chaoya Jiang , Zhemg Lee , Rui Xie , Shikun Zhang

Self-supervised representation learning is an emerging research topic for its powerful capacity in learning with unlabeled data. As a mainstream self-supervised learning method, augmentation-based contrastive learning has achieved great…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-21 Yanlun Tu , Jianxing Feng , Yang Yang

Robotic systems that rely primarily on self-supervised learning have the potential to decrease the amount of human annotation and engineering effort required to learn control strategies. In the same way that prior robotic systems have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Chongyi Zheng , Benjamin Eysenbach , Homer Walke , Patrick Yin , Kuan Fang , Ruslan Salakhutdinov , Sergey Levine

When robots learn reward functions using high capacity models that take raw state directly as input, they need to both learn a representation for what matters in the task -- the task ``features" -- as well as how to combine these features…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-20 Andreea Bobu , Yi Liu , Rohin Shah , Daniel S. Brown , Anca D. Dragan

Supervised causal learning has shown promise in causal discovery, yet it often struggles with generalization across diverse interventional settings, particularly when intervention targets are unknown. To address this, we propose TICL…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Wei Chen , Rui Ding , Bojun Huang , Yang Zhang , Qiang Fu , Yuxuan Liang , Han Shi , Dongmei Zhang

Self-supervised representation learning can mitigate the limitations in recognition tasks with few manually labeled data but abundant unlabeled data---a common scenario in sound event research. In this work, we explore unsupervised…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Eduardo Fonseca , Diego Ortego , Kevin McGuinness , Noel E. O'Connor , Xavier Serra

Deep reinforcement learning (deep RL) has achieved superior performance in complex sequential tasks by using deep neural networks as function approximators to learn directly from raw input images. However, learning directly from raw images…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-31 Gabriel V. de la Cruz , Yunshu Du , Matthew E. Taylor

Input space reconstruction is an attractive representation learning paradigm. Despite interpretability of the reconstruction and generation, we identify a misalignment between learning by reconstruction, and learning for perception. We show…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Randall Balestriero , Yann LeCun

Recent breakthroughs in self-supervised learning show that such algorithms learn visual representations that can be transferred better to unseen tasks than joint-training methods relying on task-specific supervision. In this paper, we found…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Hyuntak Cha , Jaeho Lee , Jinwoo Shin

Self-supervised models have been shown to produce comparable or better visual representations than their supervised counterparts when trained offline on unlabeled data at scale. However, their efficacy is catastrophically reduced in a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-04 Enrico Fini , Victor G. Turrisi da Costa , Xavier Alameda-Pineda , Elisa Ricci , Karteek Alahari , Julien Mairal