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One recent research demonstrated successful application of the label alignment property for unsupervised domain adaptation in a linear regression settings. Instead of regularizing representation learning to be domain invariant, the research…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Xuanrui Zeng

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

Contrastive learning has gained popularity and pushes state-of-the-art performance across numerous large-scale benchmarks. In contrastive learning, the contrastive loss function plays a pivotal role in discerning similarities between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Haojin Deng , Yimin Yang

Many existing unsupervised domain adaptation (UDA) methods primarily focus on covariate shift, limiting their effectiveness in imbalanced domain adaptation (IDA) where both covariate shift and label shift coexist. Recent IDA methods have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Xiaona Sun , Zhenyu Wu , Zhiqiang Zhan , Yang Ji

Traditional supervised learning methods are hitting a bottleneck because of their dependency on expensive manually labeled data and their weaknesses such as limited generalization ability and vulnerability to adversarial attacks. A…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Ran Liu

Contrastive learning (CL), a self-supervised learning approach, can effectively learn visual representations from unlabeled data. Given the CL training data, generative models can be trained to generate synthetic data to supplement the real…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Yawen Wu , Zhepeng Wang , Dewen Zeng , Yiyu Shi , Jingtong Hu

Leveraging datasets available to learn a model with high generalization ability to unseen domains is important for computer vision, especially when the unseen domain's annotated data are unavailable. We study a novel and practical problem…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-09 Yang Shu , Zhangjie Cao , Chenyu Wang , Jianmin Wang , Mingsheng Long

Contrastive learning has recently demonstrated superior performance to supervised learning, despite requiring no training labels. We explore how contrastive learning can be applied to hundreds of thousands of unlabeled Mars terrain images,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Isaac Ronald Ward , Charles Moore , Kai Pak , Jingdao Chen , Edwin Goh

The goal of text-to-image synthesis is to generate a visually realistic image that matches a given text description. In practice, the captions annotated by humans for the same image have large variance in terms of contents and the choice of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Hui Ye , Xiulong Yang , Martin Takac , Rajshekhar Sunderraman , Shihao Ji

Person re-identification (re-ID), is a challenging task due to the high variance within identity samples and imaging conditions. Although recent advances in deep learning have achieved remarkable accuracy in settled scenes, i.e., source…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-04 Fengxiang Yang , Ke Li , Zhun Zhong , Zhiming Luo , Xing Sun , Hao Cheng , Xiaowei Guo , Feiyue Huang , Rongrong Ji , Shaozi Li

Self-supervised pre-training methods based on contrastive learning or regression tasks can utilize more unlabeled data to improve the performance of automatic speech recognition (ASR). However, the robustness impact of combining the two…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-28 Qiu-Shi Zhu , Long Zhou , Jie Zhang , Shu-Jie Liu , Yu-Chen Hu , Li-Rong Dai

Recent empirical works have successfully used unlabeled data to learn feature representations that are broadly useful in downstream classification tasks. Several of these methods are reminiscent of the well-known word2vec embedding…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-26 Sanjeev Arora , Hrishikesh Khandeparkar , Mikhail Khodak , Orestis Plevrakis , Nikunj Saunshi

Unsupervised Domain Adaptation (UDA) has emerged as a powerful solution for the domain shift problem via transferring the knowledge from a labeled source domain to a shifted unlabeled target domain. Despite the prevalence of UDA for visual…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-28 Emadeldeen Eldele , Mohamed Ragab , Zhenghua Chen , Min Wu , Chee-Keong Kwoh , Xiaoli Li

Self-supervised contrastive learning heavily relies on the view variance brought by data augmentation, so that it can learn a view-invariant pre-trained representation. Beyond increasing the view variance for contrast, this work focuses on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-17 Yong Zhang , Rui Zhu , Shifeng Zhang , Xu Zhou , Shifeng Chen , Xiaofan Chen

Domain generalization aims to develop models that are robust to distribution shifts. Existing methods focus on learning invariance across domains to enhance model robustness, and data augmentation has been widely used to learn invariant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Yingnan Liu , Yingtian Zou , Rui Qiao , Fusheng Liu , Mong Li Lee , Wynne Hsu

Contrastive learning is a popular form of self-supervised learning that encourages augmentations (views) of the same input to have more similar representations compared to augmentations of different inputs. Recent attempts to theoretically…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Nikunj Saunshi , Jordan Ash , Surbhi Goel , Dipendra Misra , Cyril Zhang , Sanjeev Arora , Sham Kakade , Akshay Krishnamurthy

Multi-contrast image registration is a challenging task due to the complex intensity relationships between different imaging contrasts. Conventional image registration methods are typically based on iterative optimizations for each input…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Yinsong Wang , Siyi Du , Shaoming Zheng , Xinzhe Luo , Chen Qin

We introduce MOSAIC (Masked Objective with Selective Adaptation for In-domain Contrastive learning), a multi-stage framework for domain adaptation of text embedding models that incorporates joint domain-specific masked supervision. Our…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Vera Pavlova , Mohammed Makhlouf

Over the last years, dictionary learning method has been extensively applied to deal with various computer vision recognition applications, and produced state-of-the-art results. However, when the data instances of a target domain have a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-06-04 Zhun Zhong , Zongmin Li , Runlin Li , Xiaoxia Sun

Vector representations of natural language are ubiquitous in search applications. Recently, various methods based on contrastive learning have been proposed to learn textual representations from unlabelled data; by maximizing alignment…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-07-17 Sachin J. Chanchani , Ruihong Huang